Basepoint vs the spreadsheet stack
Spreadsheets built this industry. They just were not built for thirty projects, seven ISOs, and a diligence deadline.
Most development teams run on a stack of spreadsheets: the queue tracker, the pipeline tracker, the permit matrix, the pro forma, each with a version history living in email.
Basepoint keeps the spreadsheet where it is strong, as live workbooks with real formulas, and replaces the parts spreadsheets are bad at: shared state, fresh data, screening at scale, and recurring monitoring.
What Spreadsheets is known for
Spreadsheets are flexible, universally understood, and free of vendor lock-in. Every counterparty accepts them.
Where Basepoint differs
Basepoint imports your existing workbooks with formulas intact, connects them to live project and market data, and puts agents on the recurring work: queue checks, regulatory scans, document intake, and status reporting.
Capability comparison
| Capability | Basepoint15 of 15 | Spreadsheets2 of 15 |
|---|---|---|
| Data | ||
| Data refreshes itself | queue, hosting capacity, pricing, and ordinances | Manual re-pulls |
| 89 map layers and ~155 live feeds in one place | Yes | Scattered downloads |
| Documents feed the record automatically | extraction with citations | Manual re-keying |
| Screening | ||
| Screen 500 sites the same way | ranked screens at scale | Copy-paste per site |
| Fatal-flaw gates applied consistently | one scorecard for the whole portfolio | Depends on who built the sheet |
| Power flow and interconnection analysis | headroom and N-1 at a POI | Not possible |
| Engineering | ||
| Layouts, single-line diagrams, and 8760 yield | in the browser on the real boundary | Not possible |
| Finance | ||
| Financial models with real formulas | live workbooks with Excel round-trip | Yes |
| One current version across the team | Yes | Version chaos |
| Assumptions tied to the live site and grid data | one record feeds the model | Pasted values go stale |
| Team | ||
| Project management, Gantt, and checklists next to the numbers | Yes | Separate tools |
| Permissioned sharing with counterparties | views and data rooms | Email attachments |
| Automation | ||
| Recurring monitoring without a human | standing agents | No |
| Ask a question and get a cited answer | grounded in the project record | No |
| Counterparty-ready exports | Excel, Word, and PowerPoint | Yes |
Based on publicly available information as of August 2026. Capabilities change; verify details with each vendor.