SkySuite Pane

The AI assistant pane that opens next to your spreadsheet. One pane that gives you chat, navigation, automations, a template gallery, and live widgets for auto-save, change tracking, and time tracking - all working in the background while you build.

When to use it

  • Asking the AI to audit, summarize, or rewrite a part of your workbook.
  • Jumping between sheets and named ranges without scrolling Excel's bottom tab strip.
  • Running a saved automation or starting a new one from a template.
  • Keeping a continuous save backup, change log, and time log on every workbook you open.

What's inside

Chat with the AI

The Home tab is the chat surface. Ask SkySuite to read your workbook, rewrite formulas, draft a section, or run any of your saved Skills (custom prompts). Attach a file or a range to the conversation if you want the AI to look at specific data. Type / in the message box to surface the slash-command picker with every saved prompt and automation.

  • Free-form chat, just like ChatGPT - but it can see your sheet.
  • Saved Skills run a stored prompt with one click.
  • Slash-commands surface your prompts and automations inline.

Navigation

The Navigate tab is a sheet-and-named-range explorer that replaces Excel's tiny tab strip. Click a sheet to jump to it. Filter by tab color, hide and unhide sheets in bulk, search named ranges, or export a hyperlinked table of contents into the workbook.

  • Jump between sheets and named ranges without the tab strip.
  • Hide or unhide sheets in bulk by color.
  • Export a clickable table of contents to a new sheet.

Automations

Automations are named, reusable workflows that chain SkySuite actions - Smart Extract, Census, Esri, AI prompts, file imports, color toggles, and more - into a single recipe. Build one once, run it on any workbook with a click. The Automations tab lists what's installed and what's been run on the current workbook.

  • Chain features into one-click workflows.
  • Reuse across every workbook in your library.
  • Each automation tracks when it was last run on this workbook.

Discover

Discover is the gallery inside Automations that surfaces prebuilt starting points - popular templates, AI agents tuned for CRE work, and data integrations (Census, Esri, Walk Score, Property Report, and more). Click Customize on any template to clone it into your library and tweak it for your workflow.

  • Browse prebuilt templates and integrations.
  • Customize any template into your own automation.
  • Filter by category or search by name.

Auto Save

Auto Save Changes saves the active workbook on a timer so you never lose work to a crash. Two modes: overwrite the live file, or write a timestamped copy to an Autosave subfolder so you can roll back. Toggle on/off from the Home pill; pick the interval (1, 5, 10, or 15 minutes) from the settings panel.

  • Saves on a timer (1 to 15 minutes).
  • Overwrite mode, or keep timestamped backup copies.
  • Pill at the top of the pane shows on/off and last save time.

Change Tracker

Change Tracker logs every cell edit on the active workbook while it's on. The log lives inside the workbook itself so it survives saving and reopening. Export it to a dedicated Change Tracker sheet when you need a record - for audit, handoff, or to debug what broke in a model.

  • Per-cell edit log, persisted inside the workbook.
  • Export to a sheet anytime for handoff or audit.
  • Optional Export & Clear to start fresh.

Time Tracker

Time Tracker counts how long you've had a workbook in front of you. It auto-pauses when the Excel window is minimized. Live total updates every second in the pane. Export a TimeSheet worksheet of every session you've logged - useful for billing, capacity tracking, or just knowing where the day went.

  • Live timer, auto-pauses when minimized.
  • Per-workbook session log.
  • Export to a TimeSheet worksheet on demand.

Tips & shortcuts

  • Click SkySuite on the ribbon to toggle the pane open or closed.
  • The pane has four tabs at the top: Home, Navigate, Automations, Discover. The widgets on Home (auto-save, changes, time) stay live across all tabs.
  • Closing the pane mid-chat stashes the conversation - a Continue conversation pill appears the next time you open Home.