ProLens vs Spreadsheets
ProLens vs Spreadsheets: The Intelligence Gap
75% of A/E firms still track projects in spreadsheets. Here is what that copy-paste workflow is costing you every week.
The honest take
Where Spreadsheets works, and where ProLens earns its place.
Spreadsheets are the most flexible tool in the building. They are also the most fragile. Every firm has a story about the workbook that broke on the day someone needed it most, or the report that disagreed with itself because two people maintained their own version.
The deeper issue is timing. By the time the Friday revenue sheet is updated, half the underlying invoices have already moved. By the time the AR roll-up reaches the principal, the worst-aging client has already gone another week without contact. Excel is a snapshot; running a firm needs a live feed.
ProLens reads the same source data your spreadsheets pull from, but it reads it on every dashboard load. No copy-paste, no formula maintenance, no version conflicts. The hours per week your team spends keeping spreadsheets honest go straight back to billable work.
“We replaced 14 weekly spreadsheets with 1 dashboard. The Monday morning ritual stopped being a job.”
— Operations lead, 42-person architecture firm