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01 Excel add-in

The add-in where the model already lives.

A task pane in Excel and PowerPoint. Verify the workbook, save the version with its reason, and see what changed, without leaving the file.

The Provenance add-in in Microsoft Excel, on the Project Calder model.

Install it from the Add-ins button in Excel, listed on Microsoft AppSource for Excel and PowerPoint since July 2026. Where a firm's IT blocks the Office Store, upload a new version in the web app or take it from a connected drive, and review it there.

In Excel
Verify workbook, on the ribbon
In PowerPoint
Capture deck, on the ribbon
Install
Microsoft AppSource, from the Add-ins button
Without the add-in
Upload a version in the web app, or take it from a connected drive
Before anything is written
A person accepts each fix or suggestion

02 Document ingestion

The data room, read once.

Connect it or upload it, and every page is read, indexed and searchable inside the deal.

The CIM, the financial statements, the diligence reports and the models all sit in one room. Search reaches inside the documents, not just their names.

PDF
CIMs, audited statements, QoE and diligence reports
XLSX, XLSM
Models and supporting schedules
PPTX
Board decks, IC decks, management presentations
DOCX
Memos and reports
HTML
Filings saved from the web
CSV, TXT, MD
Exports and notes
The Project Calder data room summary in Provenance, each figure cited to the document it was read from.

03 Figure extraction

Every figure, with the page it came from.

Figures are extracted from each document with their location, so any number can be opened at its source.

Project Calder CIM page 29, Quality of Earnings: FY2026E EBITDA of 26.3 plus a 2.4 synergy adjustment and 1.8 of freight normalisation, Adjusted EBITDA 30.5

A page of a PDF.

Located as p. 29. In a PDF table, down to the cell's position on the page.

Project Calder IC deck slide 3, Transaction Summary: offer of $11.25 a share, enterprise value $305.5 million, FY2026E Adjusted EBITDA $29.9 million

A slide of a deck.

Located as slide 3.

The Calder model, version 14, in Excel on the Valuation tab: cell B19, the midpoint, is =AVERAGE(B17:B18) and returns $10.33

A cell of a workbook.

Located as Valuation!B19.

That location is what the source link and the Assistant point to.

04 Model history

Every version of every model.

Organized by deal, then model, then version, each with its author, its time and its reason.

  1. Organization
  2. Deal
  3. Model
  4. Version

Compare any two versions, or any two Excel, PowerPoint or PDF files without setting up a deal: what changed between the file you sent and the file that came back.

05 Data connectors

The drives your deal already lives on.

SharePoint, OneDrive, Box, Dropbox and Google Drive, plus file and folder upload. Nothing to migrate.

  • SharePoint
  • OneDrive
  • Box
  • Dropbox
  • Google Drive
  • Excel
  • PowerPoint
  • File and folder upload

Point Provenance at the folders where the models and deal documents already sit. Excel and PowerPoint connect through the add-in.

06 API

Provenance inside the AI tools your firm approves.

An MCP connector lets an approved assistant read your deals, workbooks and data room, and save a new version of a workbook, under the same permissions as the person using it.

What it can do

Read deals
deal:read
Read workbooks
workbook:read
Read the data room
data_room:read
Save a new version of a workbook
workbook:write

How access works

Sign-in
OAuth 2.1 with PKCE
Access tokens
Last one hour
Grants
Last at most 30 days, revocable at any time
Registered clients
Claude and ChatGPT

Org admins can also send Provenance events to their own systems through outbound webhooks.

07 Security and access

Held to the access rules of the deal.

Being in the firm is not the same as being on the deal.

Read the security overview

Access by deal.

Granted per deal and enforced on every request, with database row-level security behind it.

Your sign-on.

Microsoft or Google single sign-on, with your firm's MFA enforced.

Roles you control.

Admin, Analyst and read-only Viewer on each deal. Any grant can be revoked at any time.

See it on your own model.

A thirty-minute walkthrough on a model like yours, with the founding team.