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Every prompt below is copyable. Pick the tab that matches your week, take one, change the names, send it.
Each prompt names what it needs. A connection your firm has not set up gets an honest “I can’t reach that” rather than a guess, and entries naming a skill depend on one being assigned to your firm. Ask Answers “which skills are available to me?” for your list.
What did I promise people?
Comes back as a list you can act on, not a search result. Needs Outlook.Triage the pile
Ranked by what actually matters, with the reason it made the list. Needs Outlook and Teams.Then act on it
Drafting keeps you on the last step. Sending needs your approval anyway.

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From question to dashboard

With a strong skill behind it, Answers does not just reply. It builds.
One prompt pulls live project data, groups it by staff, status and due date, and writes a finished dashboard into the thread: open work, what is overdue, what is due this week, and where each person’s time is going. It arrives as a real .html file you download and open in a browser, so you can send it to a partner without anyone needing a Denari login. Keep shaping it in the same conversation rather than starting over:
Why it works is the skill, not the prompt. The firm’s logic lives in the skill: which statuses count as open, how due dates roll up, what “at risk” means. It took a few rounds of refinement to get right. After that, anyone at the firm gets the same dashboard from one line, built the same way every time. That is the pattern worth internalizing: a skill turns a good answer into a repeatable deliverable. You invest once; everyone collects on every run.
Also try: a CFO dashboard from practice management data, realization by client family, or a personal dashboard of just your own work. Needs Denari Flows, or a connection to your practice management system (for example Practice CS), plus a skill holding your firm’s definitions.

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Write a better prompt

These come from reading the threads that went nowhere. Four habits fix most of them. The first one matters most. A lot of stalled conversations are just Answers saying it cannot reach something nobody told it to reach.

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A day in the life

1

8am, triage

Top 5 emails I need to act on today, and why.
2

10am, the notice

What does this notice mean, and draft a calm reply to the client.
3

2pm, capacity

Who on the CAS team is over capacity in the next three months?
4

5pm, time

Draft my time entries for today from my activity.
None of those took a report, a filter or a meeting.

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The four shapes

Try a few and the pattern underneath becomes obvious. Nearly everything is one of these:

Ask

A question against data you have. Fast, one-off. Start here.

Analyze

Multi-step work across systems, ending in a table, chart or spreadsheet. Raise Effort.

Act

Draft the email, create the invoice. Pauses for approval on anything leaving the building.

Automate

Any of the above on a schedule. The destination for anything you do more than twice.

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The ones nobody expects

People also use it for the parts of the job that are not accounting: “Did You Know” facts for new staff, a mentorship programme outline, core values nominations, a LinkedIn caption from a photo, a slideshow from a rough outline. Worth knowing, because the firms getting the most out of Answers are the ones where people stopped treating it as a reporting tool.

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Nothing here matches your work?

Expected. These are starting points, and the useful prompts at your firm are shaped like your firm’s process. The method: for one week, every time you think “this part is tedious”, paste the tedious part into Answers. When one works, say “save that as a skill” before you move on.

Open Answers

Take any prompt above and try it.