FINALLY LEARN EXCEL · BY ZACH HOUK

The 20% of Excel that actually matters.

Taught as one connected workflow. Practiced on your actual world. Coached by my cloned voice. Twelve hours.

6 HRS CONTENT · 6 HRS PRACTICE · AI COACH INCLUDED

THE PROBLEM

Every other course is selling you information.

Information is free. YouTube has 10,000 hours of it. A 40-hour curriculum with 300 functions isn’t comprehensive — it’s more of what you can already get for nothing.

You don’t need more information. You need clarity — knowing exactly which tool to reach for, and knowing it so cold your head stays on the story the data is telling. Because your boss doesn’t need 300 functions. Your boss needs a clean answer, fast.

Excel is just a tool. I don’t worship it. I use it. And I use it damn well.

THE REAL MATH

The skills gap has a dollar amount.

Where you are · avg
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Organizing data. Sending it up raw. Hoping someone else finds the answer.

Where the skills take you · avg
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Explaining data. Sending answers. Being the person whose file gets forwarded.

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That’s a $23K-a-year gap, compounding for a decade. And the gap isn’t a degree away, or 200 skills away. It’s a handful of them, used with judgment.

Every one of them is in here. Twelve hours.

WHAT CHANGES

You start sending answers instead of data.

Q3_EXPORT_RAW.csv4,812 ROWS · UNSORTED
Q3_Summary.xlsxSAVED · SHARED
D2fx=(C2−B2)/B2
A
B
C
D
1
Region
Q2
Q3
Δ%
2
West
412,800
499,500
+21.0%
3
East
287,400
291,200
+1.3%
4
North
198,300
196,100
−1.1%
5
Total
1,055,400
1,146,200
+8.6%
West drove the quarter — up 21% while every other region held flat.
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01 / THE TRANSFORMATION

From 4,812 rows of noise to one clean answer.

By the end of 12 hours, you’re not sending raw data and hoping your boss figures it out. You’re sending finished thinking — a file so clean, so well-summarized, they forward it up the chain instead of asking you to redo it. Your spreadsheets stop coming back with corrections.

THE FRAMEWORK

I mapped everything in Excel that actually matters. There are 8 dimensions. I call them the 8 F’s.

F1 FUNDAMENTALS The basics most people skip.
F2 FORMATTING Guides the eye straight to the answer.
F3 FILTERING Cuts the noise. Finds what matters.
F4 FORMULAS Makes Excel do the thinking.
F5 FUNCTIONS The few that handle everything.
F6 FLEXING Pivot tables. Raw data, tamed fast.
F7 FRAMING Charts that tell the story.
F8 FIXING When it breaks, you don’t panic.

This course teaches 5 of them — the 5 where careers change. The other 3 matter too, just not to your paycheck. Which 5? That’s the secret sauce. You’ll know before the first module ends.

PERSONALIZED

Your role. Your world.

Most Excel courses hand you fake data — airline schedules, grocery prices. Not this. There’s a practice file built specifically for your role — and the AI coach coaches you differently depending on it. You tell me what you do, everything adapts, and when you go back to work on Monday, nothing has to be translated.

budget_vs_actuals.xlsxYOUR PRACTICE FILE
C2fx=SUM(C2:C4)
YOUR AI COACH
TAP A ROLE — WATCH IT CHANGE
SAME COURSE. SAME SKILLS. THE PRACTICE FILE AND THE COACHING ADAPT TO YOUR ROLE.
THE COACH

My voice in your ear, 24/7.

I cloned my own voice and handed it everything — the entire curriculum, every practice file, and 20 years of my finance knowledge, opinions, and hot takes. It’s not a chatbot. Talk through anything in the material and hear how I’d actually explain it — like having me on call.

Zach Houk AI ZACH · AVAILABLE 24/7 TO TALK WITH YOU
MY ACTUAL VOICE

Not a robot reading definitions. My cloned voice, trained on the whole curriculum and my own hot takes — it explains things the way I would, because it basically is me.

ON CALL 24/7

Stuck at 11pm? Call the coach — no judgment, no waiting. Ask it to re-explain anything in the material as many times as it takes to click.

COACHED FOR YOUR ROLE

Tell it what you do and the coaching changes. Same curriculum, different lens — the walkthroughs and examples land through your job, not a generic one.

THE OTHER SIDE

There’s a version of your life on the other side of this file.

01 / THE PAYCHECK

The raise you stopped waiting for someone to offer you.

02 / THE TRIP

The vacation you book without doing math first.

03 / THE CAR

The car you stopped pretending you don’t want.

04 / THE WEEKEND

The festival weekend — booked without checking the account first.

THE POINT

None of this is about Excel — it’s about what it buys you.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Make sure this is for you.

THIS IS FOR YOU IF
  • You use Excel at work but you’ve never really learned it properly.
  • You’re underpaid and you know the skills gap is part of why.
  • You’re willing to put in 12 hours to change the next 10 years.
THIS ISN’T FOR YOU IF
  • You already build summaries your boss forwards up the chain without edits.
  • You want VBA, Power Query, or macros. That’s not what this teaches.
  • You’re looking for a certificate. We don’t issue one — the work you turn in is the proof.
THE DEAL

Here’s exactly what you’re getting.

Five modules, one workflow — 6 hrs of teaching in the order a real analyst works.
The Practice File — 6 hrs of guided practice on data that matches your role.
The AI Voice Coach — my cloned voice, on call 24/7 for your full 60 days.
The 8 F’s Overview PDF — my map of everything in Excel that matters. Keep it on your desk.
The Hot List: Volume One — shortcuts, curated. A bonus release from Level Up Records.
60 days of access — more than enough time. See below.
THE NEXT-LEVEL STACK · LAUNCH EXTRAS LEAVE SEPT 30
$500

The Stack is both courses, plus the launch-window extras below. They’re in until Sept 30, then they’re gone. Excel LUL teaches you the tool. Numbers at Work LUL teaches you the game it’s played in. The tool alone does the job you already have; the tool plus the numbers is how you make the case for the next one.

BONUS: Cash Money $200 VALUE

The course on turning all of this into actual money — how promotions really get decided, what the people deciding actually care about, how to ask for a raise in their language, and how to use any of it to land the next job instead. Ridiculous name. Serious course.

BONUS: The dual-context AI coach $150 VALUE

The only version that knows both the tool and the numbers, so you can bring it a spreadsheet and a business question.

Just Excel LUL — $300

This course on its own — everything listed above, minus the Stack extras. One payment — no subscription, no hidden fees.

Enroll — $300

60 days of full access. Not lifetime. On purpose.

I’ve watched what happens with lifetime access. People bookmark it, plan to start Monday, and never open it. Sixty days means you actually do it. It’s 12 hours — an hour a day gets it done with weeks to spare.

And if life gets in the way and you need more time, email me. I’ll extend it. Nobody gets cut off.

The Module One Guarantee.

Finish Module One. Then I ask you point-blank: in or out? Out — full refund, every dollar, no hard feelings. In — we finish what we started, and refunds are off the table. One module to decide. That’s the deal.

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THE EXPENSE-IT PLAY

Your company will likely pay for this.

Even at full price, this sits under almost every corporate training budget — this is professional development, and that’s literally what the budget is for. Most students expense it or get reimbursed. I’ll even make the ask easy: a one-page PDF that sells your boss for you.

TRAINING BUDGETS EXIST. USE YOURS.
QUESTIONS

Before you ask.

Do I need to already know Excel? +
You’ve opened it before and you use it at work sometimes. That’s enough.
How is this different from YouTube? +
YouTube is information — and information is free for a reason. This builds clarity: knowing the tool so cold you stop thinking about it and start seeing the story in the data. Plus a 24/7 voice coach in my voice, adapted to your role. Nobody else has that.
Will my employer pay for this? +
Usually. $300 — even the $500 Stack — is well below most corporate training budgets. Manager brochure and invoices available.
Should I get this or the Stack? +
If Excel is your only gap, this course closes it. But most people who suck at Excel also nod through the numbers part of meetings — and that’s the other course. The Stack is $500 for both, and inside the launch window it also carries Cash Money and the dual-context coach — extras that leave Sept 30. And your company probably pays anyway.
What if I get stuck? +
The AI voice coach is available 24/7. It’s the closest thing to having me on call.
What’s the refund policy? +
The Module One Guarantee. Finish Module One (about 90 minutes), then tell me: in or out. Out = full refund, every dollar. In = no refunds after that. You’ll know by the end of Module One whether this is different — you’re either in or you’re not, and now there’s a clean moment to decide.
Zach Houk

Finally learn Excel.

THE BOSS PDF

Make it your company’s money.

Drop your email and I’ll send the one-page brochure that makes the case — what’s in the course, what it costs, and why it pays for itself. Invoice template included.

ON ITS WAY. CHECK YOUR INBOX.
ONE EMAIL. THE PDF + INVOICE TEMPLATE. NO SPAM.