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AI Spreadsheet Assistant Decide Expands to Nigeria With Café One Partnership

Most AI tools land in markets where adoption is already warm. This one is going somewhere more interesting.

Decide AI has partnered with Café One, Nigeria’s largest co-working network, to bring its AI-powered spreadsheet and research assistant to professionals across the country. Members at more than 30 Café One locations will receive access to Decide as part of their existing membership — no separate procurement, no IT department required.

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Key Highlights

Decide’s spreadsheet AI is now bundled into memberships at 30+ Café One locations in Nigeria
The tool targets spreadsheet-heavy work with 82.5% verified accuracy on SpreadsheetBench
Decide for Work uses co-working spaces as a distribution channel for workplace AI adoption

What Decide Actually Does

Decide is an AI agent built for spreadsheet analysis and research automation. It’s positioned as a tool for the kind of work that quietly eats hours: pulling data, building reports, cross-referencing research, formatting outputs that someone will eventually present in a meeting.

The platform reportedly achieves 82.5% verified accuracy on SpreadsheetBench, which places it among the stronger performers for spreadsheet-specific AI tasks. It’s already in use at organisations including KPMG, PwC, and Bank of America — which gives it some enterprise credibility heading into a new market.

Why the Co-Working Angle Makes Sense

This partnership is the first deployment under Decide for Work, the company’s initiative to embed AI agents into businesses, universities, and professional communities rather than waiting for individual users to find the product on their own.

The logic is straightforward: adoption doesn’t happen in the abstract. It happens where people already show up to work.

Café One’s membership skews toward exactly the professionals who live in spreadsheets — freelancers, analysts, founders, operators. Bundling Decide into membership removes the friction of a separate sign-up and puts the tool directly in front of people with an immediate reason to use it.

What This Signals for Workplace AI Adoption

A few things worth noting here:

Distribution through physical spaces is an underused strategy for AI tools. Most go app store → product hunt → LinkedIn. This goes co-working desk → member benefit → daily workflow.
Nigeria’s professional tech community is growing fast, and tools that arrive early with real utility tend to stick.
Decide for Work appears designed to scale this model — co-working spaces are replicable, and the playbook here could extend to other cities and regions.

The Practical Takeaway

If you’re building or evaluating AI tools for knowledge workers, the distribution model here is worth paying attention to. Embedding access inside an existing membership — especially in a physical workspace — sidesteps the cold-start problem that kills most B2B AI rollouts.

For Nigerian professionals already working out of Café One locations, the short version is simpler: your spreadsheet work just got a capable assistant, and it’s already included in what you’re paying.