# What can I ask Daystrom?

> Ask Daystrom anything about a client's money: totals, searches, timelines, patterns, and charts. It answers only from your real, processed bank statements.

Daystrom answers questions about the client's money in plain English. You do not need a query language or a filter. Type the question the way you would ask a forensic accountant, and Daystrom reads the project's transactions, checks, and statements to answer.

## What kinds of questions work best?

Anything that comes down to totals, searches, patterns, or timelines over the client's transactions. For example:

- **Totals:** "How much did they spend at casinos last year?" or "What did they pay in rent in 2024?"
- **Searches:** "Show me every wire over 10,000 dollars." or "Find all payments to Jane Smith."
- **Timelines:** "Chart their monthly income for 2024." or "How did spending change after March?"
- **Patterns:** "What are their biggest recurring payments?" or "List transfers between their own accounts."
- **Source checks:** "What balance did the March Chase statement print?" or "Where did this deposit come from?"

> _Screen: Ask in plain English. Daystrom answers from the client's real, processed transactions, here with a table of every wire over $10,000._

Daystrom can answer with a written summary, a [table or chart](https://www.counselpro.ai/docs/charts-you-can-ask-daystrom-for), a list of real transactions, or a [spreadsheet you can download](https://www.counselpro.ai/docs/export-chat-findings-to-a-spreadsheet). Follow-up questions keep the thread, so you can start broad and then drill in.

## Are there questions it cannot answer?

A few, and it is honest about them:

- **A live running balance.** It can tell you what a statement printed as its beginning or ending balance, but the product does not track a running balance across accounts. See [whether Daystrom can tell you a balance](https://www.counselpro.ai/docs/can-the-analysis-agent-tell-me-a-balance).
- **Anything outside the uploaded statements.** It reads the client's processed data, not the open web or court records.
- **A map of where money was spent.** Location and travel questions are answered in text, not on a map.

If the data to answer a question is not in the project, Daystrom says so rather than [making something up](https://www.counselpro.ai/docs/does-the-analysis-agent-make-things-up). Each message can be up to 2,000 characters, so keep a single question focused and ask the next one as a follow-up.

Source: https://www.counselpro.ai/docs/what-can-i-ask-the-analysis-agent