https://savantsociety.substack.com/p/the-ai-revolution-is-an-immigrant The AI revolution was built by immigrants. A dry cleaner. A reform school kid. A taxi driver's son. Two grad students from the Soviet Union. First essay from The Savant Society.

Yesterday we built a 5-year DCF model from scratch — assumptions, revenue projections, scenario analysis, sensitivity tables — using nothing but plain English and Claude inside Excel. No formulas typed by hand. In less than 30 minutes. (DCF = Discounted Cash Flow) We were honored to have in attendance my Corporate Financial Strategy professor from MBA in the room. She said: "That was really interesting. I can see great advantages to professionals in speeding up business plan creation. Would need to be very careful in auditing the output, but if used properly the system has the potential to create a better spreadsheet than an average user. Thanks for a really useful webinar!" - Ruth Bender, Emeritus Professor of Corporate Financial Strategy at Cranfield School of Management Here is the video recording link: Build a DCF Model with Claude in Excel Video Here are the slides: Build a DCF Model with Claude in Excel If you were in the room, this is your reference. If you missed it, this is the next best thing. Every week, we'll post the slides and resources from our Lightning Lessons here. This is the library. It only grows. Three more this week: Wednesday – Turn Scattered Data into an Exec Brief (M365 Copilot) Thursday – Build a Podcast and a Video (NotebookLM) Friday – Create a Slide Deck in Minutes (Gamma) All free. All live. All 3 PM CT. Links are in the Calendar tab. Welcome to the Savant Society. We build things here.

Eight members. That's it. That's us right now. If you're reading this, you didn't find this community through an ad or an algorithm. Someone pointed you here — or you showed up because something about what we're building resonated. Either way, you're in the right place. Here's what the Savant Society is: A place where people who actually use AI talk about what works. Not hype. Not headlines. Real workflows, real tools, real results — from people figuring it out in the trenches every day. We train teams at companies across the country. We teach live courses through Maven. We build with these tools constantly. And the best stuff we learn? It ends up here first. Here's what this space is NOT: - Not a pitch fest - Not a place to lurk in silence (say something — we're all figuring this out) - Not a community that pretends AI is magic. It's a tool. A powerful one. But it still needs a human with judgment behind it. What's coming: This week we're running four Lightning Lessons — free, live sessions on Claude in Excel, Microsoft 365 Copilot, NotebookLM, and Gamma. If you're enrolled in any of those, you'll see recaps and resources posted here afterward. Beyond that: weekly content, real stories from client engagements (anonymized), frameworks you can steal, and honest conversation about what's actually working in AI right now. One ask: Drop a comment and tell us what you do and what tool you're most curious about. That's it. No wrong answers. Welcome aboard. The best communities start small. Matt & Christian Co-Founders, SAVANT-AI