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Open your workspace
Sign in at app.cfo.ai. Your workspace holds your Model, Pages, Scenarios, data connections, and team settings.During onboarding, Ari may share what it knows about your company and ask you to confirm or correct it. That context helps Ari choose a sensible starting point.
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Ask a business question
Describe the decision that matters. You do not need to know which financial model or report to request.
Can we hire three engineers in September? Show me what happens to payroll, cash, and cash runway.Ari can use the current company context to determine which information and calculations the answer needs.
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Choose how to begin
You can connect existing business data, share a file, or start from assumptions.
- Connect your data when accounting, HR, CRM, spreadsheet, or database history should inform the answer.
- Start from scratch when you want to work from a business description and explicit assumptions first.
- Import an existing model when a workbook or report already contains the financial structure you want to rebuild.
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Review the first result
Review Ari’s answer and check the sources, assumptions, date range, and business categories. If Ari creates a Page or Table Block, open it. Ask Ari to explain a number or adjust an assumption, or change the Model directly.
Show me the hiring assumptions, then move the start dates to October and compare the cash forecast.
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Decide what comes next
Add another source, create a Scenario, prepare a report, or save a recurring workflow. You and Ari keep working from the same Model, so the answer remains visible and useful after the first conversation.