Ask the way you talk
Write the question as you would say it to someone who has read your book. Taglish is fine: it answers in the language you asked in.
Name the time
Which items sold worst in August? is sharper than What sold badly? Name the week, the month or the dates you care about.
One question at a time
What happened to Saturdays? and Which item should I stop ordering? are two questions. Ask them one after the other, and follow up on what you just saw.
Read the Checked line
Every figure in an answer is worked out by Evelyst’s own checks, never typed in by the AI. The Checked line under an answer lists what it looked at. If a figure can’t be traced to your entries, the answer doesn’t give it.
When it says it can’t
If your book can’t answer something yet, it says so, says why, and says what would unlock it. A forecast, for example, needs about 8 weeks of history. Item profit needs your costs. Then it offers what it can do instead.
What you can ask
What you can ask shows real answers for a shop, a restaurant and a salon, in seven kinds of question: where the money went, why something happened, what’s selling, what’s coming, what if, is anything wrong, and how you are doing overall.
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