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Introducing the Revolutionary New Columns Product Line

· 4 min read
Shawn Cao
Shawn Cao
Founder & CEO

Columns Ai

We are incredibly excited to announce that the all-new Columns platform is officially live and publicly available at https://columns.ai!

If you work with data on a daily basis, you know the grind. Between manually extracting numbers from PDFs, cleaning messy datasets, and wrestling with outdated spreadsheet software, finding the actual insights often takes a back seat.

Today, we are changing that. We have completely reimagined the data experience with our brand-new product line consisting of three core pillars: Columns Drive, Columns Flow, and Columns Graph.

The entire platform is designed around a single, powerful user flow: "Build around Flow, Powered by Drive and Graph." Here is a deep dive into the three new products that will transform the way you work with data.

Columns Product Line​

  1. Columns Drive: The Smartest Home for Your Data

Think of Columns Drive as working just like your standard cloud storage (such as Google Drive or OneDrive), but with a superpower: it is specialized for data extraction.

You can upload images, screenshots, text files, Excel sheets, or PDFs into a folder, and Columns Drive's AI will automatically extract the underlying data from those files. It then gathers all of these extractions and seamlessly compiles them into a single, clean CSV dataset per folder. From there, you can easily download the master file for further processing or feed it directly into Columns Flow to build an automated data pipeline.

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  1. Columns Flow: Orchestrate Data with Plain Language

Columns Flow is the beating heart of your data automation. It is a highly intuitive, flow diagram-based pipeline tool where you can orchestrate your data journey without writing a single line of code.

Using plain language, you can set up data cleaning tasks, dictate transformation logic, or define your analysis intent. Columns Flow handles all types of complex data operations, including aggregations and multi-set operations like unions and joins. Once your pipeline is set up, put it on cruise control: you can automate the entire flow and subscribe to alerts so you are immediately notified of any special events or anomalies in your data.

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  1. Columns Graph: Your Personalized Data Visualizer

Once your data is extracted and transformed, it is time to share the story. Columns Graph is our new, highly personalized data visualizer.

We know how important aesthetics and branding are for storytelling and publishing. With Columns Graph, you can bring your own brand assets, custom colors, and typography to your visualizer. Enjoy 100% customization over your data graphs so that your final published dashboards look exactly the way you want them to, beautifully aligned with your brand identity.

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Real Stories from the Data Frontlines​

To understand how these tools come together, here is how early users are already leveraging the new Columns platform to win back their time:

  • Reclaiming the Weekend with Drive: One of our users regularly receives hundreds of scattered data files in various formats (PDFs, text, and images) from different vendors. Instead of burning multiple weekends manually copying and pasting this information, they simply dragged and dropped over 100 files into a Columns Drive folder. In minutes, Drive automatically merged the data into a single, perfectly structured dataset.

  • Always-On Insights with Flow: Another user, a sales operations manager, needed to keep a pulse on regional performance without constantly checking dashboards. By connecting their database directly to Columns Flow, they set up a natural-language pipeline to track daily revenue. Now, the automated flow monitors the data and sends them instant, customized alerts whenever sales hit specific milestones or drop below target thresholds.

Time to Unlearn Excel​

For decades, we’ve been forced to bend to the limitations of traditional spreadsheets. The new Columns platform is nothing short of revolutionary for day-to-day data workers. It is time to Unlearn Excel.

By harnessing the power of modern AI technology, Columns empowers anyone - regardless of technical background - to effortlessly solve their daily data grinds.

Stop wrestling with formulas and manual data entry, and start automating your success.

Ready to build your flow? Try it for free today at https://columns.ai.