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We set ourselves the challenge of looking at the financial model audit process to see how we can make it faster for our clients.

The Public Sector is gearing up, through the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) to deal with the gargantuan task ahead, of managing the hand-back of the assets of 700+ projects over the coming years.

Nobody likes to be scrutinized. A financial model audit is a very public form of scrutiny. We understand that having a model audited many times is not a fun experience. Here at Gridlines, we have all been modellers ourselves and had our financial models audited. We are sensitive to that pain and do all we can to minimise it.

Iteration based charging is the norm in the financial model audit sector. We understand why our competitors do it. Why wouldn't they? Ditching iterations is just one of the ways that we are shaking up the financial model audit market.

The impact of errors in Excel can be massive, we are passionate about helping our clients to use Excel well. Hear more about how we manage modelling risk.

There has been a huge amount of input from our beta users, this is helping us to make Openbox more stable and useful to modellers.

Iain Morrow's weekly bulletin of progress with the Openbox private beta test.

You saw us build a financial model in 20 minutes, here we delve into some of your questions which came up from the demo.

With the first round of beta testing kicking off, we will soon begin preparations for the second round. This will commence in the coming months. If you would like to be involved at that point please apply using the form within this post.

In the first public demo of Openbox, we challenged ourselves to build a full Project Finance model in 20 minutes. We managed it with 3 minutes to spare. Watch the recording and find out more about the upcoming closed beta.