Turn business knowledge into a real application

Every useful business application begins with more than a screen. It needs a clear purpose, reliable information, understandable rules, and people who remain responsible for what it does. For an Excel power user, much of that knowledge may already exist in the formulas, exceptions, checks, and everyday decisions that keep work moving.

Building Enterprise AI for Excel Power Users: A Business-First Method for Vibe Coding Solutions Your Company Can Trust and Support offers a practical way to bring that knowledge into an AI-assisted build. Start with a problem you understand. Define the process, the information it needs, the decisions people make, and the boundaries the solution must respect. Then use AI to help turn that direction into screens, business rules, data structures, and connections.

Viren Shah explains the foundations that a promising demonstration still needs: a place to build, a history of changes, an intentional data design, protected credentials, and an appropriate environment. The book then moves through the front end, back end, integrations, and the rules that connect them, using plain language and examples grounded in business work.

Trust is treated as part of the application, not a finishing touch. Chapters address access controls, application logging, sign-in protections, data restrictions, and the human review needed to decide whether the result does what the business intended. AI can accelerate the work, but it does not take over responsibility for meaning, permissions, or outcomes.

Written for Excel power users, analysts, operators, entrepreneurs, and business leaders, this is not a promise that one prompt can produce a finished software business. It is also not an advanced Excel formula manual. It is a business-first method for directing an AI-assisted solution and knowing when technical specialists are needed. Detailed production deployment, ongoing operations, and formal assurance remain outside its teaching scope.

As the back cover puts it, the most valuable thing you bring is not a prompt. It is your understanding of the work and the processes.