> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.denari.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Use Cases

> Common ways to use Denari Answers across your firm.

Here are some of the most common ways you can use Denari Answers, organized by function.

## Operations & Workforce Management

* **Workload balancing** — See who's overloaded and get recommendations for reassigning tasks based on capacity, staff level, specialization, and prior experience.
* **Capacity planning** — Identify where staff have more hours of work than available time and get suggested solutions for redistributing work.
* **Staffing assignments** — When new projects come in, ask Answers who should handle the work based on who did it last year, partner and manager assignments, complexity, and current availability.
* **Time entry compliance** — Track which staff members are behind on entering their time for the week.
* **Staff performance tracking** — See who's above or below their billable hour targets and how the team is trending.

## Financial Analysis

* **Cash flow forecasting** — Forecast weekly cash flows based on client historical payment patterns.
* **Cost and profitability analysis** — Compare cost rates against billing rates to analyze profit by employee or project.
* **Commission reports** — Generate quarterly commission reports that previously required hours of manual work.
* **Bonus plan modeling** — Pull historical data for each metric in a bonus plan to see how it would have paid out in prior years.
* **New and lost client analysis** — Analyze client additions and departures across a variety of factors.

## Tax & Project Operations

* **Project pipeline tracking** — See how many projects have been received, how many are at risk of needing extensions, and the total hours of outstanding work.
* **Year-over-year comparisons** — Compare this year's billable hours, utilization, and project counts against the same period last year.
* **Extension risk analysis** — Identify projects likely to need extensions based on received date, complexity, and current progress.
* **Departed staff impact** — Quantify hours lost from departed employees and see how much new hires and continuing staff are offsetting.

## Client Management

* **Client grouping recommendations** — Find clients that should be grouped together based on shared partners, addresses, email domains, or phone numbers — with confidence scores.
* **Client lookup** — Quickly pull up a summary of any client and their recent activity without navigating PCS directly.

## Research

* **Industry benchmarks** — Compare your firm's metrics against industry standards.