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An Excel add-in that builds a 3-statement financial model plus a board-ready dashboard in minutes — and connects to QuickBooks
free templates for lead gen + monetized via premium templates/data connections
Claude for Excel can build a model but doesn't understand FP&A craft — productizing that craft (centralized drivers + global error checks + a dashboard that actually looks good) is precisely the moat AI can't close yet.
Fewer bars = easier, cheaper, or faster for an AI-assisted solo builder. Editorial judgments based on the case details.
On the surface this is a review: Josh Aharonoff — a CFO who has built hundreds of financial models and trains finance professionals worldwide — goes head-to-head with Claude for Excel across four rounds (3-statement model, revenue forecast, headcount forecast, dashboard) to see who builds the better financial model. Commercially, though, it's a meticulously designed soft sell: in every round he first watches how Claude does it, then demos “how I'd do it” — and “how I'd do it” is always a template generated by his own Excel add-in, Model Wiz. He sets the hook in the opening: the templates are free at modelwiz.com, and you can even connect QuickBooks Online data for free. This content play — ride the AI hype, then let the side-by-side comparison show off your own tool — is the entire customer-acquisition engine of the business. It captures traffic from the “can AI replace financial modeling?” debate everyone is having, while planting the product in the highest-trust context possible: the expert stepping into the ring himself.
The distribution existed before the add-in did. Josh Aharonoff had built hundreds of financial models and trained finance professionals around the world, so the first users of Model Wiz are the people already watching him work.
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Data credibility: The video's author, Josh Aharonoff (a CFO who has trained finance professionals worldwide), demos his own Excel add-in Model Wiz, saying the templates are free at modelwiz.com and can connect to QuickBooks Online data for free; the video discloses no revenue figures at all, hence the “potential” label. All revenue figures are founder-reported or estimated by the video creator, unaudited.
The free tier is a deliberate choice, not a missing price. Templates are given away at modelwiz.com and so is the QuickBooks Online connection, because the hard part in this market is not willingness to pay, it is getting a finance team to install anything into Excel at all.
Three things compound here. The first is the content cadence: every new AI release is another comparison video, each one carries the same free template offer, and traffic from a hype cycle converts into a list of finance professionals that does not decay when the hype does.
The silence in this business runs on a calendar. Finance teams rebuild their model around budget season and close the books monthly, so a tool that misses one of those windows waits for the next one, and adoption can look flat for months no matter how good the product is.
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