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An AI gave me a confidently wrong spreadsheet total — so I built one where AI writes code, not guesses, and gets verified.

A developer built Sheet Analysis AI, an open-source tool that prevents AI from hallucinating spreadsheet totals by having the model write JavaScript code that runs locally in the browser, with a deterministic auditor verifying every figure before display. The tool, built with React 19, TypeScript, and Vite, is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and aims to establish a pattern for trustworthy AI data analysis.

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A few months ago I asked an AI tool to total up a sales spreadsheet.

It gave me a clean, confident number.

It was wrong. Not "rounding error" wrong — it had quietly skipped

rows and produced a total that just looked plausible. Nothing

flagged it. Nothing hedged. It just said the number, like it was fact.

That's the actual problem with LLMs on tabular data: they don't calculate, they estimate. Ask a model to sum a column and, under

So I built Sheet Analysis AI specifically so it can't do that. Here's the actual mechanism —

not the marketing version.

When you ask a question like "which region grew fastest?", the

model doesn't see your data. It sees:

region

, revenue

, date

)From that, it writes a small piece of JavaScript — actual code, not

a natural-language answer. That code is then executed locally, in your browser, against your

The model decides the approach (group by region, sum revenue,

sort descending). Your machine does the calculating. This alone

kills the "confidently estimated" failure mode, because there's no

estimation step left — it's just code execution.

The deterministic dashboard (KPIs, Mann-Kendall trend detection,

ANOVA seasonality, Pareto/RFM segmentation, forecasting) doesn't

even involve the AI — it's plain statistical code that runs the

instant you upload a file, no API key required at all.

Even code-generated numbers can be wrong — bad logic, an edge case,

a misread column. So before anything renders, a separate

deterministic auditor — no AI involved — re-checks every figure

against the source rows. A concrete example:

Say your data is:

Region Product Revenue
North Phone 200
North Laptop 200
South Phone 100
South Laptop 500

Total revenue is $1,000. The auditor checks this a few different ways:

400 / 1000

, or a plausible-sounding guess?400 + 600 = 1000

. By product: 300 + 700 = 1000

. If those don't match, something's broken upstream and the number is blocked, not shown.Any single failed check blocks that figure. It doesn't get

downgraded to "approximately" — it just doesn't render.

To be upfront about scope:

React 19 + TypeScript + Vite. No backend in this build — parsing,

analysis, and the reconciliation gate all run client-side.

Licensed AGPL-3.0.

I don't think this needs to be a product. I think the pattern

AI proposes the method, deterministic code executes it, a separate

auditor verifies it before display — is generally useful for anyone

building "AI + your data" tools, and it's more useful to more people

as a reference than as a SaaS with a handful of users.

Repo: https://github.com/Durlabhkumarjha/sheet-analysis-ai Genuinely curious if anyone's solved this "AI + real numbers" trust

problem differently — would love to compare notes in the comments.

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