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seems like a really interesting concept, although I do think you might struggle getting that into the enterprise (or even medium/large business space) given the heavy installation. Definitely going to see if it helps with me requirements of trying to unpick complex financial models built from spreadsheets.

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Good point. We have had some issues with corporate security, especially in larger organisations, and are looking at alternatives. Moving to cloud software could be an option, but big financial firms are even less open to that that what we are currently building!

Im currently in consultancy for financial services and getting anything either in as cloud-based SaaS or even a well-established vendor is a nightmare of risk assessments and red tape. I think this type of tool is very valuable for a lot of these firms but the ones that need it will be the ones that have teams of people trying to block you. One answer might be SaaS-based but hosted on-site to avoid the security issues people have around having their IP in the cloud. Best of luck!

We have had a couple of larger firms suggest this as an option they would prefer, but moving quickly in this direction is the biggest problem though. Thanks!

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