For many companies, Excel is the comfort zone. It’s familiar, flexible, and has “worked for years.” But when teams rely on spreadsheets to reconcile data or build recurring reports, Excel stops being a tool and starts becoming infrastructure. That’s where things break down. At scale, manual spreadsheets slow teams down, introduce inconsistencies, and make reporting depend on whoever last touched the file. The habit persists because it feels comfortable, not necessarily because it’s efficient...

When a company loses trust in its data, every decision slows down. This is what we call the Distrust Gap. It is the space between what the data says and what people believe it says. The gap usually forms when different teams filter, transform, or visualize data in their own ways. Each version appears correct on its own, but together they create competing “truths.” Once this happens, alignment becomes difficult, even for companies with strong technical foundations. The goal is to close that...

Cloud infrastructures rarely fail for technical reasons. More often, they fail financially. Over time, as teams change and projects evolve, costs accumulate, dependencies are forgotten, and workloads keep running “just in case.” Sisifo helps organizations audit, redesign, and govern their cloud and data environments so that costs reflect actual business value. Across industries, we’ve seen redundant pipelines, orphaned servers, duplicated storage, and dashboards querying terabytes of...