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Denari Answers is an AI coworker that can reach your firm’s systems. It answers questions about your data, builds the spreadsheet or letter you need, takes actions in the tools you already use, and does all of it again on a schedule if you ask it to.

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The one thing worth understanding

Most AI chat tools predict an answer. Answers writes a program and runs it. Every conversation gets a private, sandboxed computer. Ask for last quarter’s realization by partner and it writes code, queries your data, reads the real result and tells you what it found. Ask for a spreadsheet and it builds one. Three things follow:

The numbers are real

Totals come from a query against your data, not from a model’s recollection of it.

It produces files

Workbooks, Word documents and PDFs land in the conversation, ready to download, with the scripts that built them.

It can act, so it asks

Sending, deleting and paying pause for your approval. See Tool Permissions.

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Your first conversation

Open Answers from the sidebar, type a question, press Enter. If you want somewhere to start, the suggested prompts under the greeting are live, so clicking one sends it. The Answers home screen, greeting the user by name and asking what they would like to know, with three suggested prompts: summarize last month's WIP by client, which clients haven't been invoiced this quarter, and draft a follow-up email for missing PBC documents. It may ask a clarifying question first. That is deliberate: “show me utilization” could mean five things, and one question up front beats three wrong answers. While it works you see an Analyzing section with a running timer. Stop ends the run and keeps whatever was produced. An Answers thread. The question reads: when did we write off the most time this year, show me in a monthly chart by department. Below it a collapsed thinking section reading Thought for 4m 5s, a line chart of written-off billable hours for Audit, CAS and Tax across the year, and an answer beginning: Luca, April was the high point, 397.2 written-off billable hours. One plain question, no report to configure. Two details worth noticing, because they show up everywhere:
  • It led with the answer rather than leaving you to read it off the chart.
  • The caption says Admin was left out, and why. When Answers makes a judgment call about your data, it says so. Expand Thought to see every step.
You cannot send a second message while a run is in progress. Wait for the answer, or press Stop first.

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The controls

Two buttons sit next to the message box.

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The + menu

Everything you give Answers access to for this message: Every connector is on by default, and they switch back on each time a thread loads, so a connector you turn off stays off only for the message you are writing. Turning one off is a useful way to force a question at a specific source.

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Model settings

The gear icon holds two controls:
  • Reasoning shows the model’s thinking as it works. Useful when you want to see how it reached a number.
  • Effort trades speed against depth: Low, Medium, High, Max. Medium is the default and is right for most questions. Raise it for multi-step analysis across several systems; lower it for quick lookups.

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Getting better answers

“Billable hours by department for Q3” gets a table. Adding “I’m presenting to the partner group on margin” gets the comparison that makes it mean something.
Follow-ups are cheap and keep the context. “Break that down by quarter”, “drop anyone under 100 hours”, “now chart it”.
If a number looks wrong, ask how it got there. Answers shows the query it ran, which is faster than rebuilding the question.
The moment you find yourself re-explaining the same process, say so:
That worked. Turn it into a skill so I don’t have to explain it again.
Answers drafts the skill from the conversation you just had, shows it to you, and saves it once you confirm. You are not filling in a form, you are telling it to remember.The new skill is private to you. Once you are happy with it, switch it to firm scope on the Skills page and everyone gets it, done the same way every time.

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Managing conversations

Each conversation is a thread in the sidebar, titled automatically. From a thread’s actions menu you can Pin it, Rename it, regenerate its title, Share it with a colleague, or Delete it. Deleting is permanent, so the app asks first. The sidebar is searchable, and a status dot tells you when a thread is working, has finished since you last looked, or hit an error. See Files & Threads for sharing and file handling.

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Where to go next

Use Cases

What this actually looks like in a working week, by role.

Connections

Connect QuickBooks, Outlook, SharePoint, HubSpot, or any MCP server.

Skills

Teach Answers your firm’s way of doing something. No code required.

Automations

Have it run on a schedule and send you the result.