Paul BarnhurstFP&A Expert Empowering Finance Professionals to Excel Everday

Identical results, different logic paths.

28 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Two AI tools solved the same Excel case identically: both scored 1210/1250, missed the same bonus question, and ran in nearly the same time. But they got there with different formulas and logic paths.

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Copilot and ChatGPT (via Rosie AI and an Excel agent).

1210 out of 1250.

They missed the BO bonus question 5.

Runtimes were roughly the same — within a second of each other.

All runs used formula-based approaches; some runs used the exact same formulas between tools.

I took the Easy Excel Esports case that we've tested the last few weeks that the Excel Athlete case and I ran it through Rosie AI and I ran it through the Excel agent and I ran it through each of them twice. And so what we have here is, hey, what model do they use? This one's using Copilot, this one's using ChatGPT. Very similar. What's the level max score, how they scored? Each of them got the exact same score. They each got 1210 out of 1250. They missed the BO bonus question 5, which there's a very easy reason why they did. They both took roughly the same time to run it within a second of each other. They all used formulas each time. All of them were formula based and in some cases they use the exact same formula between the tools. So let me sort this by levels. I think it will be kind of interesting so I could see. Oh, hey, they used the exact same method for level one.