Hi everyone! I’m Taimur, co-founder and CEO of Causal, a new tool for working with numbers. Spreadsheets can be used for pretty much anything — Airtable, Notion, Asana, etc. are doing a great job of tackling the “general productivity” use-cases: making lists of things, tracking projects, managing processes, and so on. We’ve built Causal to tackle the other half of spreadsheets: number-crunching — doing calculations, visualising data, and communicating with numbers. And everyone needs to do this: 1. 💻 CEOs at Seed/Series A startups: cash runway forecasting, hiring planning, fundraising 2. 🏦 Finance teams at Series B+ companies: annual budgeting, tracking budgets vs actuals, investor reporting, multi-currency consolidation 3. 📞 Sales teams: quota capacity planning, pipeline forecasting, interactive ROI calculators 4. 📈 Marketing teams: performance marketing forecasting, ad spend planning Compared to Excel/Sheets, Causal gives you: 1. 🔤 Plain english formulas: write formulas you can actually read, with 100x fewer formulas needed to build the same model as Excel 2. 🔌 Live data integrations: pull data from your accounting system/ERP, CRM, HRIS, and data warehouse automatically 3. 🎆 Interactive dashboard reports: share live dashboards where your team can play with the numbers without breaking anything I’d love to hear what you think — sign up for a free account at https://causal.app and try it out! If you need our advanced features (data integrations, version comparison), we’re offering our Startup plan for $99/month (usually $250/month) with the code PRODUCTHUNT. Enjoy!

Been using Causal for a while - for me the major thing is the ability to bake in uncertainty to your models. Instead of saying our cost of showing 1,000 ads (CPM) is $10, we can say it's $8 to $10 and then everything downstream that references that will show a range too. Now you know the probability of hitting your target, missing it, or exceeding it. I've found that to be hugely helpful in setting realistic goals and expectations with leadership and finance. I'm sure it can do a lot more than this, but just wanted to highlight that one feature because it's subtle but really useful.

Huge fan of Causal. Way easier & simpler to use than Excel, for pretty much any model. Always fun to send a client a model in Causal and let them play with the assumptions, rather than have to go back and forth making tweaks of my own.

Very nice UI, congrats! Can it integrate with custom live databases like Formaloo or airtable too?

Hey Product Hunt, The Causal team is thrilled to share our platform with you today. For 50 years, Excel has been the only tool that truly allows people and businesses alike to model with numbers, albeit not very efficiently. Not anymore. Causal is revolutionizing the way people are working with numbers with direct integrations, fast modelling, strong collaboration and beautiful visualizations. So give it a try and let the team know what you think!

(Disclosure - I'm a minuscule investor, but my enthusiasm for Causal is not limited to financial rewards!). It is such an impressive tool on so many fronts. Displacing Excel/Sheets feels like an impossible task - but I have been absolutely delighted as a user of the product. It's such an elegant re-thinking of many of the fundamental jobs of the spreadsheet. Would highly recommend to anyone who needs to think about the future through the lens of numbers.

I tried Causal to build a simple model for our SaaS business and I was impressed. You can easily connect your Xero account and use your synced data to make projections. Can't wait for the Stripe integration to be live

Love Causal. Makes my team think I'm smart. Amazing job @taimurabdaal

Love the product, been a big fan as soon as I discovered them. So excited to keep tabs with their progress! Give them a try!

I’ve found Causal to be a great way to improve the sync at board level about the business metrics that really matter. Favourite features for me so far include the uncertainty intervals, “common sense” formula structure, data integrations, budget tracking, and intuitive cohorts and charting 🎯

We use causal religiously now to model out revenue and burn predictions. Life saving product.

Love the templates so far!

Awesome to see Causal's evolution since we first met 2-3 years ago, @taimurabdaal. What's been the biggest learning or surprise so far?

Looks so promising. Best of luck.

Congrats on your launch 🙌 Been a fan of causal ever since we used it for our growth models at tray.io.

Great team. Great Product. Period. 🔥

Congrats! Good luck!

🤩🔥 congrats on launching!

Looks great! Will definitely try it

Absolutely love Causal. Use it internally to help plan and forecast for my own biz, but it's also been super handy building custom calculators that I embed in Notion templates and across my website. Just a really fun, intuitive tool to work with and looking forward to seeing what the team does with it next--great job guys!!