Sheetward User Guide

Draft with AIStart here

Describe the app you need in your own words, and Sheetward drafts the App Specification workbook for you — a real workbook you can read, refine and approve. The AI sits on the authoring side only: from your approved specification, Sheetward builds the app exactly as it does for one you wrote by hand.

On New App, pick the Create with AI card and press Draft with AI. Describe the app in your own words and give it a name. The draft opens on the normal review step, with the model's stated assumptions listed above it. From there you create the app — or download the specification, polish it in Excel, and upload it like any workbook.

A description can ask for anything a specification can express:

• Forms, fields, dropdown lists, validation rules and calculated fields — the core of every app.
• A dashboard — ask for one ("include a dashboard with monthly revenue and an order-count KPI") and the draft adds a Report_ sheet.
• Additional languages — name them ("support additional languages German, Japanese") and the draft includes the translations. Writing your description in German, Japanese or Arabic adds that language automatically. The specification itself is always authored in English, the app's base language, and each additional language counts as one more AI authoring.

Four example prompts you can copy as starting points:

• "Create a Student List with details – Student Name, Grade, Gender, Age, State, Photo." — Photo becomes a real image field: media types (image, video, audio, document) are inferred from field names.
• "Create an Expense Tracker with details – Expense ID, Description, Date, Expense Category, Amount. Expense ID is auto generated. Expense Category has list of values – Rent, Car, Grocery, Utilities, Travel, Others. Date should not be in the future; Description, Date and Amount are required. All validation errors should have appropriate messages."
• "Create an Invoicing app: Invoice No, Customer, Invoice Date, Due Date, Status (Draft/Sent/Paid). Lines have Description, Quantity, Unit Price; calculate the line Amount and the Invoice Total. Include a dashboard with a monthly revenue trend and an invoice-count KPI."
• "Erstelle eine Spesen-App. Formular 'Spesenabrechnung' mit den Feldern: Mitarbeiter, Datum, Kategorie (Reisen, Verpflegung, Büromaterial), Betrag, Beleg (Foto) und Bemerkungen. Der Betrag muss größer als 0 sein; Mitarbeiter und Datum sind Pflichtfelder." — a description written in German, naming no language: the specification is still authored in English, and German is added automatically as an app language.

Already have the app? Revise with AI is one of the three workbook sources in the Change app dialog's Workbook section. Describe the change, and the AI edits the app's current specification. You see the standard change preview — exactly which fields are added or removed — before anything is applied. A revision counts as one AI authoring and pays only for languages it newly adds.

Sometimes an upload is blocked because the workbook is working data — say, last year's expense records — rather than a specification. When that happens, the error panel offers to reshape it with AI. This is the only AI feature that sends your file's contents to the model, so it asks for your explicit consent first. Values that look personal — email addresses, phone and card numbers — are removed before anything is sent. The reshaped draft replaces real-looking values with generic samples and goes through the usual review.

Each plan includes a monthly allowance of AI authorings, shown on your workspace Usage meter. Every generate, revision or reshape counts as one AI authoring, plus one per additional language drafted. There is no counting of words or characters.