Smart Editing in Aire
Our team knows better than anyone: there’s just nothing quite like a spreadsheet. We all learned to model in Excel and Google Sheets, finding power in direct manipulation while growing to trust a tool that respected how we actually work—rough sketches followed by iteration, gradually building complexity until an idea becomes a rigorous, functional model. But we also know the other side: you’ve been plugging away for hours on something that needs to be done tonight when you realize that the calculated values don’t make sense. A reference table was resorted, you added a new row somewhere that’s not auto-summing, or there’s a multiplier not flowing through. The tool that invited exploration now creates anxiety at the exact moments you need confidence most. Spreadsheets gave us flexibility and control, but they were built for a different era, before we needed to manage thousands of interdependent calculations across multiple scenarios while moving at the speed modern energy markets demand. What if you didn’t have to choose between the immediacy of spreadsheets and the safeguards of modern software? Smart editing brings Excel-style direct manipulation to the Aire platform. This release establishes a familiar baseline while setting the foundation for where we’re headed: a platform that understands your model’s structure, learns from your workflows, and becomes an intelligent partner in project development. Highlights Include:- Click to edit values, names, sources, tags, and other term properties
- Hide/show columns
- Create, edit, move, and delete blocks and terms
- View underlying formulas without breaking your flow
- Semantic building blocks designed for flexibility and durability: Instead of cells and sheets, our Blocks and Terms structure will make way for templated components that can be shared across projects, connected to external data, computed in different environments, and swapped in and out as your analysis evolves, all while staying editable and inspectable.
- A platform that understands your model’s structure: When you edit, you’re working within a system that knows what depends on what and will use AI to help you reason about changes before you make them, ensuring you can iterate with confidence. Project AI builds on this by analyzing your model and answering questions in plain language.
- Versioning built for models: Every change is tracked at the model structure level, not just file-level edits. We keep a complete record of how your model evolved, with comparison and rollback coming soon in Project History.