Why Short-Term Power Traders Are Drowning in Spreadsheets

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There’s a rhythm to short-term power traders that’s both beautiful and brutal. ERCOT shifts in seconds. Weather rolls in from the Gulf, and what was a calm morning can turn into a scramble by the afternoon. The best operators know this cadence in their bones—but lately, the tools aren’t keeping pace.

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Walk the floor of any real-time desk and you’ll see the same choreography: screens filled with Excel sheets stitched together by late-night macros, screenshots dropped into email threads, Slack pings carrying fragments of data from half a dozen sources.

Somewhere in all of that chaos, million-dollar decisions get made.

We’ve heard it said more than once... And this one statement cuts to the heart of the problem for short-term power traders.

“We don’t need another dashboard. We need answers.”

Dashboards multiply, but context gets thinner.

Each new tab promises insight but delivers another sliver of the picture. By the time you’ve stitched weather updates into outage reports into ERCOT feeds, the signal is already late.

The decision friction is real:

• Copy-paste paralysis: Operators spending more time formatting data than interpreting it.

  
  

• Context collapse: A chart on one screen doesn’t explain the “why” behind a sudden price move.

  
  

• Trust gaps: Was this number hand-entered from an email? Was that screenshot the latest version?

  
  

The irony is that traders—whose edge depends on speed and certainty—are burdened with some of the slowest, most uncertain workflows.

It’s duct tape where there should be steel.

And yet, despite the friction, markets move. Traders adapt. They make calls under pressure, often with incomplete intel, and carry the weight of those calls into settlement. The grit is admirable, but the system isn’t sustainable.

Here’s the vision: Situational awareness not as a scavenger hunt across spreadsheets and chats, but as a living, governed signal.

Data that arrives whole, explained in plain English, with evidence one click away. A workspace where confidence isn’t patched together—it’s built in.

We’re not quite ready to show you how we've solved these blind-spots, but you can get a sneak peak before our official product launch in late October.

For now, the days of drowning in spreadsheets are numbered.

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