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The modeler's shortcut toolkit.
Free Beta  ·  Excel  ·  Windows

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.

Number Formatting Format numbers, %, $, and multiples. Instantly.
Color Cycling Industry standard text and fill colors, fully customizable.
Formula Audit Trace, visualize, and audit formulas.
Export to Presentations Presentation-ready in one step.
All shortcuts fully customizable
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Features

Model faster. Audit with confidence.

Daedalus maps the actions you repeat most to single, customizable keystroke shortcuts. No mouse, no interruption to your flow.

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Number Formatting

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 Cycling

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.

Formula Auditing

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.

Export to Presentations

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

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Why Daedalus

Everything you need. Nothing you don't.

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.

  • ✓ Keyboard-first workflow. Every feature is a shortcut.
  • ✓ Fully customizable shortcut keys. Remap anything.
  • ✓ Lightweight installer. No bloat, no background services.
  • ✓ Built for current and aspiring finance professionals.
  • ✓ Clean exports. Paste presentation-ready content in one step.

Beta Pricing

Free

During beta – no card required

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Windows only · Requires Microsoft Excel

Beta Program

You're using it early. Help shape it.

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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