Smart Workbooks are structured Excel workbooks generated from the governed model. Edit them in Excel, bring them back, and VECYRA diffs every returned value, validates it against the model, and publishes only what passes — with full provenance on what changed.
Generate a workbook from the model — structured sheets for the objects you choose, with types and identifiers preserved.
Work in the tool every project team already has. Add rows, update values, fill in progress — in Excel, offline, anywhere.
On return, VECYRA compares the workbook against the current model and shows exactly what would change, cell by cell.
Every returned value is checked against the model's rules. Findings are explainable — what is wrong, where, and why.
Only validated changes are published into the model, recorded in the audit trail with the workbook as their source.
A Smart Workbook is not a dump. Its sheets map to typed project objects — activities, WBS, BOQ, calendars, relationships — so a returned file can be interpreted, checked, and traced rather than merely parsed.
Teams will always reach for Excel. The failure mode of project controls isn't that people use spreadsheets — it's that spreadsheet edits re-enter the system of record unchecked. Smart Workbooks close that loop.
Export a CSV, email it around, receive three conflicting versions back, re-key the changes, discover the broken formulas at period close.
One structured workbook out, one workbook back, a reviewed diff, validated values, and a published change set with an audit entry.
The governed model remains the system of record. Excel becomes a controlled interface to it — with provenance on everything that comes back.
Smart Workbooks are included in the beta. Generate one from the sample project, edit it in Excel, and watch the diff and validation on return.