Excel Chatbot Built with Streamlit: Better Than a Vanilla LLM?

[Kurt]

Hi everyone,

I want to share an Excel chatbot that I’ve been working on, built with Streamlit. You can try it out live here:

https://chat.exceljet.net/

This has been an interesting project for which Streamlit was a huge help in developing. The chatbot uses a RAG model that retrieves and augments user messages with content from Exceljet.

I’d love to hear your thoughts—do you think it performs better than the standard LLM response for Excel-related questions?

Here are some resources I found useful while building the bot:

• Build a basic LLM chat app
• Build a RAG chatbot
• How to Build Effective AI Agents (without the hype)

[asehmi]

Very nice example of adding value to your website. Much better than a simple search engine.

[Jorelauck]

I stumbled across this yesterday and it was wonderful. The advice was laser focussed on my actual problem and gave me an exact solution. Unfortunately I tried it again today and it’s gone. Hopefully this sort of thing will become common in future.

[Pratik10]

great