Most Jamaican finance teams I work with are not short on ideas. They are short on hours. A senior accountant spends Tuesday cleaning a messy export from a point-of-sale system. The CFO of a mid-sized manufacturer in Spanish Town spends Thursday rebuilding a budget because a line item moved. The founder of a Montego Bay tour operator spends Sunday wrestling a spreadsheet into something her bank will accept.

Quietly, in the background, the tool that swallows most of those hours — Google Sheets — just changed.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has released a Google Sheets add-on that places ChatGPT directly inside the spreadsheet. There is no copying and pasting between tabs and chatbot, no exporting to a separate AI tool. You open your sheet, click Extensions, and a sidebar appears on the right. From that sidebar you can ask ChatGPT to build, update, or explain anything in the file in plain English.