Your stack today vs. Prysm
Five tools, four exports, three files named FINAL, two jobs that fail silently — and one very patient ops lead holding it all together with duct tape. Here’s what changes when the data, the logic, the docs, and the AI share one workspace.
Every piece kind of works. Together, they kind of don’t.
Sound familiar? This is the unofficial data stack quietly running half the companies on earth.
Excel files emailed around
budget_v7_FINAL_final(2).xlsx — now with 40% more conflicting copies.
Automation chains
Zap → webhook → zap → sheet. Elegant, right up until 3am.
A BI dashboard
Gorgeous charts of how the business looked last Tuesday. Probably.
Cron'd Python scripts
Maintained by someone who left in 2023. Do not touch. Nobody knows why.
A wiki that drifts
Last updated during a launch week that shall not be named.
Dashed lines = the integrations you babysit
The honest comparison
No competitor names — the duct-tape stack knows exactly who it is.
Manual F9 — plus stale copies of copies
Server-side recalc: live, cross-sheet, always current
A Flask app, a server, and a prayer
Publish JS/TS/SQL as endpoints in one click, docs included
Whatever the script can reach, it can touch
V8 isolates — capability-granted, nothing more
Hope, plus a Slack apology
Schema + freshness rules that warn or block
A wiki that rots quietly
Docs live next to the data — versioned, with Ask-AI
A chatbot that describes the work
Juno: ~117 tools, and it asks before anything destructive
Which export was the right one again?
Every mutation logged — who, what, when
Licenses × 5 tools, plus the glue-hours
Per-seat. One bill. That's the whole bill.
One workspace · one bill · zero duct tape
Same report. Two very different afternoons.
The weekly numbers ritual, as performed by your team — and as performed by a team on Prysm.
1. Connect once
Postgres, Sheets, an API, a stray CSV — encrypted creds, scheduled sync, done.
2. Everything stays live
Sheets recalc, charts refresh, docs sync, endpoints run. The deck builds itself.
Whatever you’d compare us to, the gap is the same
No names named — you know the categories. Prysm isn't a better version of one of them; it's the thing that replaces all four.
vs. standalone spreadsheets
Great grid. Shame about the emailed copies.
- Recalc
F9 when opened — stale until touched
Server engine recalcs continuously, cross-sheet
- Versions
budget_v7_FINAL_final(2).xlsx
One live sheet, full history, zero attachments
- Logic ceiling
Whatever fits in a formula bar
Real JS/TS/SQL scripts when formulas run out
- Scale
Starts wheezing around row 100k
Engine built for real datasets, not just tabs
vs. the automation platform
Moves data between tools. Owns none of it.
- Failures
Silently stops at 3am, you notice Thursday
Triggers with run logs, retries, and alerts
- Debugging
Click through task history and guess
Every run logged — inputs, outputs, duration
- Billing
Pay per task, per step, per zap
Per seat. Automation is just part of it
vs. the BI dashboard
Beautiful charts of last Tuesday.
- Freshness
A scheduled extract, a week behind
Charts sync the moment data lands
- Fixing things
Read-only — file a ticket, wait a sprint
Click through to the live sheet and fix it
- Truth
Yet another copy of the numbers
Charts read the same cells your team edits
- AI
A chatbot that describes the chart
Juno edits the chart, the sheet, the script
vs. internal tooling builders
A second job disguised as a canvas.
- Shipping
Assemble a UI, wire it up, maintain it forever
Publish a script as an endpoint — docs included
- Code
JS snippets trapped in little boxes
Real JS/TS/SQL in a sandboxed V8 isolate
- Oversight
ACL screens per app, per page, per button
One audit log, every mutation, everywhere
The duct tape isn’t free
No line item says 'duct tape.' It's spread across five renewals, four exports, and one person's weekends.
tools licensed
Each with its own renewal email you forward to finance.
exports per report
On a good week. Bad weeks have a fifth one called final_FINAL.
of glue-code per week
Per person who knows where the bodies are buried.
tired ops lead
Holding the whole thing together. Give them a raise or give them Prysm.
Prysm: one seat, one bill, zero glue
Bring your data. Leave the tape.
You don't have to boil the ocean — connect what you have, import what you love, and let Prysm keep it live from then on.
Connect
Creds in once, encrypted at rest. Scheduled syncs and write-back where the source allows it.
Import
Drag in the CSVs and XLSX files — formulas and all. Every import is logged and re-runnable.
Stays live
Contracts check every byte at the door, recalc keeps it current, and the export ritual retires itself.
Don’t take our word for it
No logos, no quotes — we'd rather show you. Three ways to check every claim on this page, none of which involve trusting us.
Fair questions, honest answers
No — and please don't. Most teams start with one painful report or one heroic spreadsheet. Connectors can mirror your existing sources while you move, so the old stack keeps working until you're ready to unplug it.
Stop duct-taping.
Start free — your spreadsheets, scripts, contracts, and docs move in together.