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StartDeck Writer

Google Workspace add-on for commercial appraisal reports

Problem

Appraisers using StartDeck still needed to build and format final reports inside the Google Workspace tools their teams already used day to day.

Solution

DuskByte extended the StartDeck engagement into a dedicated Google Workspace add-on for report writing, tying the SaaS platform's automation directly into Docs and Sheets.

StartDeck Writer sidebar add-on open in Google Docs beside a Business Consulting Proposal, showing Forms & Data tools: Forms, Fields & Maps, Edit Fields, Create Fields, Sheet Data, and Utilities.
The StartDeck Writer sidebar in Google Docs: forms, merge fields, and sheet data automating a live proposal document.
StartDeck Writer merging data from a Google Sheet into a Standard Zoning Comparison Report, with sheet values updating zoning-compliance tables in the document.
Sheet-to-document data merge: report tables stay in sync with the source spreadsheet.
StartDeck Writer's Content Library tab saving a selected Subject Description block as a reusable, taggable content entry.
The Content Library: save specialized report content once, retrieve it in any document.
StartDeck Writer inserting and updating a subject-property photo in a zoning report from an image URL stored in the source sheet.
Image fields: property photos inserted and refreshed from the data sheet.
StartDeck Writer generating a subject-location Google Map inside a zoning report, with selectable roadmap, satellite, hybrid, and terrain map types.
Map fields: location maps generated in-document, with roadmap/satellite/terrain options.

Outcome

Companion product to the StartDeck case study: one client relationship producing both a standalone SaaS platform and a Workspace add-on.

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