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Eliminate data errors. Unlock valuable time.

Connect your Excel data directly to PowerPoint. Grunt’s Excel Connection empowers one-click data refreshes, ensuring accuracy and freeing you from tedious manual updates.

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Unlock data-driven confidence

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Ensure data accuracy and integrity

Say goodbye to copy-paste errors and outdated information. Your presentations stay perfectly synced with your Excel source, guaranteeing accuracy and traceability for every number.

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Reclaim hours of valuable time

Automate tedious manual updates and screenshotting. Grunt transforms your reporting cycles, allowing you to refresh entire decks in seconds and dramatically cut down preparation time.

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Empower smarter decisions

With reliable, up-to-date data presented clearly, stakeholders can make faster, more confident decisions. Focus on insights, not the mechanics of data transfer.

Seamless data flow

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Link directly to Excel sources

Establish a robust, reliable connection between your PowerPoint presentations and your source Excel files. Your data remains where it belongs, secure and central.

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Update your entire deck instantly

With a single click using the Data Connection Manager, refresh all linked charts, tables and elements across your entire presentation in seconds.

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You control the data flow

Grunt never edits your source Excel files and only updates your presentation when you explicitly instruct it. You maintain absolute control over your data.

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Read data intelligently

Utilize advanced options like Greedy Reading to pull exactly the data you need from complex Excel spreadsheets, ensuring precision and relevance in your visuals.

Advanced control for data mastery

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Secure data processing

Maintain data integrity without manual data transfers.

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Eliminate manual errors

Reduce human error from copy-pasting.

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Faster reporting cycles

Accelerate updates for critical presentations.

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Seamless data synchronization

Keep all elements perfectly aligned with the source.

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Customizable data extraction

Pull specific data points with precision.

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Version control confidence

Trust your data is always the latest.

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Reduce grunt work

Free up time for strategic analysis.

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Advanced data reading

Automatically adapt to expanding or shrinking data sets.

A tool for the whole team

Drive quantifiable ROI and reduce risk

Eliminate hidden productivity costs and regulatory exposure from manual processes. Grunt delivers measurable ROI through automated workflows and guaranteed data accuracy.

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Focus on insights, not manual updates

Free your mind from tedious data management. Grunt’s Excel Connection lets you focus on analyzing data and crafting compelling stories, not formatting.

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Ensure data governance and compliance

Controlled Excel connectivity and a range of features providing secure, traceable data flows, reducing security vulnerabilities and compliance challenges across the organization.

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Empower data-driven decision-making

Ensure your strategic presentations are built on the most accurate, up-to-date data, accelerating insights and enabling faster, more confident decision cycles.

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Maintain full data traceability

Automated data connections ensure accuracy and traceability for all presented numbers, reducing compliance risk and providing clarity in audit processes.

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From manual formatting to meaningful storytelling

Explore how Grunt helped Sprint Consulting strengthened its ability to communicate insights with speed, accuracy and impact which enhances both their internal efficiency and the experience they deliver to clients.

 

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Boost in efficiency

With Grunt, Sprint freed up time for the team to focus on what matters most: building the story, crafting arguments, and adding value for the client.

 

A consistent premium look

"Grunt gives us complete confidence that our data and presentations are always in sync. The assurance of accuracy combined with a consistently premium look has raised the standard of everything we deliver."

 

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FAQ

Grunts Excel Connection links your objects in PowerPoint directly to data from Excel, so updates in your spreadsheet flow through to your slides automatically.

Yes. You can link objects to different Excel files, and Grunt keeps each connection separate in the Data Connection Manager, so your data stays organized and easy to update.

Yes. You can link several charts to one file, and update them all in a single refresh.

No. Grunt doesn’t run in Excel at all, and only pulls the data it needs for your linked objects. Your Excel files run as usual, without lag or heavy processing.

Absolutely. You can unlink a chart at any time. It will remain a normal chart with embedded data.

Other product areas

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Grunt AI

Grunt AI is your intelligent co-pilot for presentations, automating the mundane and empowering you to focus on the impactful. Go from raw ideas to polished, persuasive slides with unprecedented speed and precision.

  • Instantly generate sophisticated slides.
  • Transform data into impactful visuals.
  • Achieve unprecedented speed in creation.
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Grunt Library​

Never face a blank slide again. The Grunt Library empowers you to start smart, instantly accessing ready-made templates and inspiring examples.

  • Get inspired with curated examples and polished slides.
  • Discover how top teams use Grunt.
  • Skip the setup and dive straight into impactful storytelling.
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Content Distribution

Streamline team collaboration with effortless template sharing, ensuring brand consistency and always the latest content.

  • Publish key content slides for quick team access.
  • Accelerate workflows by remixing proven slides.
  • Stay synced with linked slides and get change notifications.
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Tools

Achieve pro-level polish without pro-level effort. Access powerful precision tools to save critical time and convert messy slides into slick messages.

  • Access precision tools used by experts.
  • Save time on micro-adjustments with one-click fixes.
  • Instantly clean up messy slides with smart alignment.
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Visual Grid

Transform complex data into captivating visuals that shine. Unleash the power of intuitive design to make your insights instantly clear and impactful.

  • Bring your stories to life with dynamic visual styles.
  • Ensure perfect accuracy with industry-leading Excel connection.
  • Automate tedious formatting for guaranteed, on-brand results.
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Gantt

Transform complex project timelines with Grunt's dynamic Gantt charts, ensuring clarity and stakeholder alignment.

  • Build calendar-based timelines, not frustrating floating shapes.
  • Edit project milestones and tasks directly on the slide with fluid precision.
  • Benefit from automated layout adjustments for professional charts.
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Agenda

Maintain perfect presentation structure with Grunt Agenda, ensuring synced formatting and automatic updates.

  • Maintain perfect consistency in size, position and styling.
  • Agenda items automatically reflect slide order changes.
  • Make fast, intuitive changes with point-and-click simplicity.
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Charts

Transform complex data into superior, decision-driving visuals faster than ever with Grunt's intuitive charting tools.

  • Make fast, intuitive changes with point-and-click simplicity.
  • Access a wide range of advanced chart types, including Waterfall and Dumbbell.
  • Highlight key insights and patterns with powerful annotations.
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AI Infusion

Leverage intelligent automation for dynamic presentation creation.

  • Instantly generate sophisticated slides.
  • Transform data into impactful visuals.
  • Achieve unprecedented speed in creation.
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Why choose Grunt?

Our purpose is to revolutionize business communication, dissolving the distance between raw data and crucial decisions.

Grunt doesn't just save time. We fundamentally shift how brilliant minds utilize their expertise, moving from manually "aligning boxes" to crafting insights that transform businesses.

Rather than pursuing aesthetic completeness, Grunt focuses on crafting targeted, clear storytelling that directly drives business outcomes and improves decision quality.

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