gridmoo · for solo operators, small businesses, and people who'd rather own their tools
Excel templates.
Instead of subscriptions.
$7–19 a 31-sheet system. Paid once. You keep it.
Instead of
$2,400/yr
in subscriptions the average small business barely opens.
Check your number →
.XLSX opens in Excel, Sheets, and Numbers. No login. No subscription. Works offline.
Stripe checkout. 30-day refund.
The free planner. Real cells.
| Date | Category | Money In | Money Out |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-01 | Salary | $120.00 | $0.00 |
| 2026-03-01 | Groceries | $0.00 | $38.50 |
| 2026-03-02 | Transport | $0.00 | $12.00 |
This is what every workbook in the catalog looks like. Grab this one free if you want to try one before paying.
Not a one-tab template. A system you own — offline, forever.
The 2026 question
“Why not just ask AI
to build it?”
You can. Then you spend the afternoon finding the formulas it got wrong — the depreciation it forgot, the month it double-counted. AI looks finished long before it's correct.
We already spent that afternoon — sixty times, every formula tested by hand. $7–19 buys it back, and the certainty the number at the bottom is true.
The catalog
60 workbooks, by industry.
60, not 600. The other 540 didn't survive our own use.
Food & Hospitality
Independent Business
Retail & Commerce
Personal Finance
Blog · 22 long-form pieces
Why we ditched each SaaS.
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Restaurant · Anti-subscription · 8 min
Stop Paying Toast $79/mo for Food Cost Reports. Use Excel.
Toast charges $79–$165/mo for inventory, food cost and labor reports that are two spreadsheet tabs. Here's the Excel workbook that gives you the same numbers — paid once.
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Salon · Anti-subscription · 7 min
Cancel Vagaro. Run Your Solo Salon in Excel.
Vagaro is $30–$50/mo for booking + reporting most solo stylists barely use. The actual chair economics are two Excel tabs. Here's the workbook + the free booking stack.
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Construction · Anti-subscription · 8 min
BuilderTrend Is $399/mo. Job Costing Is Two Excel Tabs.
BuilderTrend charges $399/mo for project management most small builders use 20% of. The job-costing math is two spreadsheet tabs. Here's the Excel workbook — paid once.
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Coffee Shop · Anti-subscription · 7 min
Square Charges $45/mo for Coffee Shop Reports. Excel Is Better.
Square for Restaurants Plus + Loyalty stacks to $80+/mo. The actual cafe numbers — bean cost, daily sales, shift labor — are a one-time workbook. Here's the stack.
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Questions
Things people ask.
What is gridmoo?
60 .xlsx files. Each replaces a specific SaaS subscription. $7–$19. Paid once.
How is this different from a Notion template?
Notion can't do real formulas. No SUMIFS across databases, no NPER for debt payoff, no live stock prices. Our workbooks compute natively, work offline, and cost $7–$19 once instead of $120/yr. (longer post.)
Do I need Microsoft Excel?
No. The files open free in Google Sheets, Apple Numbers, or Excel Online.
What happens after I pay?
Email with a download link. No account, no expiring license. Back it up wherever you want.
Refund?
30 days, no questions. Reply to your purchase email.
Who runs gridmoo?
One operator. AI in the loop. More on the about page.