Zeit AI transforms Excel files in a structured database that can be queried using natural language. For example, the financial consultancy RISE, which depends heavily on Excel, uses Zeit AI to access and analyze expenses across their organization.
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### Enterprise insights from spreadsheet data with just a few words.

Zeit AI transforms Excel files in a structured database that can be queried using natural language. For example, the financial consultancy RISE, which depends heavily on Excel, uses Zeit AI to access and analyze expenses across their organization.



Zeit AI

Founded:2024

Team Size:3

Location:San Francisco

### Active Founders

### Leopold von Waldthausen, Founder

Hi everyone! Welcome to my YC profile. I spent 3.5 years at Palantir, ultimately leading all established customers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Before that, I studied CS at Oxford, published research on process mining and cryptography, quit an MBA at Yale. During my undergraduate, I already started my first business (weview) at 18 years, which I built for 3 years and then sold to DemoUp Cliplister. Hit me up for any activity to do with mountains and I'll be your fan.



### Marvin Christopher Bornstein, Founder

Grew up around Berlin, Germany and lived in London, U.K. for the last 5 years. Been writing software for over 18 years, professionally for almost 10. My focus is on full stack dev and data eng. I have researched deep learning topics and participated in numerous hackathons and InfoSec CTFs. I spent my last 5 years at Palantir in various roles across the business and have delivered value for customers in many industries (chemicals, railway infra, media, utilities, insurance, medical equipment).



Marvin Christopher Bornstein

[Zeit AI](

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[### 📈💡Zeit AI: Insights from your tabular data with just a few words](

### **🏆 TLDR**

[Zeit AI]( is ChatGPT for enterprise tables. You can upload tables as Excel, CSV, PDF, and more. Atop of these tables, simple questions in natural language can be used to locate data, combine it, generate analyses, or even charts. All results are repeatable and explainable. They can be exported at the click of a button. [Watch our demo!](

🧑‍💻🌟 **The Team**
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Together, [Marvin]( and [Leopold]( have over 15 years of combined experience in data engineering and analytics. During our four years side-by-side at Palantir, we led high-impact projects, building an AI rule-engine and generating over €50 million in novel project revenue. We saw first-hand how corporates heavily relied on Excel files, leading to manual work to analyse and combine data. A solution like Zeit AI would have been a game-changer in accessing this data at scale.



⚠️ **Problem**
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Non-technical users find it challenging to access and analyse enterprise data. Yet, making data-driven decisions is crucial in today’s fast-paced world.

1.  Data is stored in files rather than structured databases.
2.  Databases cannot be accessed by non-technical users.
3.  Data often needs to be exported and manually combined in Excel.

💡 **Solution**
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Zeit AI allows non-technical users to derive ad-hoc insights from tables using natural language. This is possible in just three steps.

1.  Drop data files (We support Excel, CSV exports from databases, and PDFs).
2.  A structured cloud database is instantly generated and ready to be explored.
3.  Use natural language to seamlessly derive insights from the data.



🛠️ **How Zeit AI is Used Today**
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**Procurement** 🛒 Gaining the upper hand during negotiations by having ad-hoc access to all historical procurement data.

**Consulting** 🗂️ Rapidly explore and analyse data rooms and client files using natural language to confidently deliver value to clients.

**Controlling** 📊 Access extracts from accounting systems and seamlessly combine them with files across departments for comprehensive financial control.

✅ **Ask**
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[Book a slot]( with us to explore using Zeit AI. Refer us to procurement managers and senior consultants. ([founders@zeit-ai.com](mailto:founders@zeit-ai.com))

Get on a [30-minute call]( with us for a live demo or free office hours for anyone struggling to easily access tabular data at scale.

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#### How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)

We founded Zeit AI after working side-by-side at Palantir for four years. Together, we led forward-deployed teams—Leopold on the strategic side and Marvin on the technical side. We developed software for operational teams at our client's site under high time pressure, addressing urgent data issues while leading Palantir’s highest-potential public client in Europe. During our time at Palantir, we saw first-hand that any hole in corporate data strategies was stuffed by Excel files, but there was no effective way to access and utilize the knowledge contained in these files at scale. This insight inspired us to create Zeit AI, a solution that transforms Excel files into a structured database, that makes it easy to query them using just natural language.
