Daedalus offers productivity solutions for Excel modeling. The shortcuts power users need, pre-built and fully customizable. Precision formatting, color coding, formula auditing, and clean exports into presentations. All driven by keyboard shortcuts you actually control.
Features
Daedalus maps the actions you repeat most to single, customizable keystroke shortcuts. No mouse, no interruption to your flow.
Apply finance-standard number formats across any selection instantly. Number, percentage, currency, and multiples formats. The common formats you need for every model, mapped to single keystrokes, and fully customizable to your own preferences. No ribbon, no formatting dialog, no interruption.
Color-code hardcodes, formulas, cross-sheet links, and external references instantly. Industry standard font and cell fill colors out of the box or fully customizable to your own convention. Define your palette once, and Daedalus applies it with a single keystroke.
Trace, visualize, and audit formulas without leaving the keyboard. Surface inconsistencies across your model, trace precedents and dependents, and navigate formula logic fast. Built for the finance professional who needs to get in, understand the model, and move on fast.
Copy any selection to the clipboard with color-coded fonts automatically converted to black. Paste cleanly into PowerPoint or Word in whatever format you choose. Your source model stays intact. Colors, formulas, everything unchanged.
All features driven by customizable keyboard shortcuts
Why Daedalus
Macabacus is powerful. It's also $200+ per year and packed with features most people never touch. Daedalus is the focused alternative. The tools you actually use, at a fraction of the cost.
Beta Pricing
During beta – no card required
Download DaedalusWindows only · Requires Microsoft Excel
Beta Program
Daedalus is in active beta, built for current, aspiring, and recovering investment bankers, private equity professionals, and anyone who lives in Excel. If something doesn't work as expected, or there's a feature you'd reach for every day that isn't here yet, we want to know. Your feedback directly shapes what gets built next.
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