Ask any number
Answers questions like “headcount by department” or “receivables over 60 days” with a number from your apps.
How it works
Ask on WhatsApp or the web: headcount, joiners, exits and attrition, leave taken, overtime and late arrivals, hours logged, payroll cost, open positions and offers, expenses, receivables, pipeline and tickets. It picks one of about 28 named metrics, never a free query: the app's own data gives the figures with your own access, and they are added up in code, not by the AI. Managers without company-wide access get their own team's number. Every answer names the metric, the filters, the period and a link to the app. When nothing fits, it says so and adds your question to a missing-metrics list for your admins. It reads only: nothing is changed.
A few credits per question: the AI only picks the metric when the words aren't clear and writes the sentence.
What it reads
- Employees, leave, attendance and timesheets you are allowed to see, or only your team's
- Pay run totals, expense claims, customer invoices and open deals, when you have access to them
- Recruit report figures and helpdesk tickets
When it starts
- When someone asks for a number in the assistant or on its page
What it can do
What it never does
- Change, approve or send anything, or run a query of its own
Safe by design
- One assistant, many agents. Ask the Employee assistant in the app or on WhatsApp; it calls the agents your company has hired that you may use.
- Hired, not switched on. Your admin hires each agent from the catalogue and chooses who can use it.
- Agents propose, people confirm. Anything that changes data, like a leave request, waits for a person to confirm it.
- Same access as the user. An agent sees only what the person asking is allowed to see.
- AI processing in India. Agents run on models hosted in India (AWS Mumbai).
- Budgets and a hard stop. Set a monthly credit limit per agent; agents stop when credits run out.
- Every run recorded. Admins see each run, the credits it used and what it did.
Frequently asked questions
What does the Ask any number do?
Ask on WhatsApp or the web: headcount, joiners, exits and attrition, leave taken, overtime and late arrivals, hours logged, payroll cost, open positions and offers, expenses, receivables, pipeline and tickets. It picks one of about 28 named metrics, never a free query: the app's own data gives the figures with your own access, and they are added up in code, not by the AI. Managers without company-wide access get their own team's number. Every answer names the metric, the filters, the period and a link to the app. When nothing fits, it says so and adds your question to a missing-metrics list for your admins. It reads only: nothing is changed.
Can the Ask any number change data on its own?
No. It never does the following: change, approve or send anything, or run a query of its own.
How much does the Ask any number cost?
A few credits per question: the AI only picks the metric when the words aren't clear and writes the sentence.. Credits are a paid add-on to any flowwork.ai plan at ₹100 (US$ 1.19) per 1,000 credits, and new companies get 500 free trial credits for 30 days.
Where is the data processed?
Agents run on AI models hosted in India and see only what the person using them is allowed to see. Admins see every run and the credits it used.
Other agents
Answers “How do I…?” from the flowwork help guide in a few steps and opens the right screen. It only shows screens you already have access to.
A short morning digest of your mail, and a prep before each meeting with other people.
Turns a chat thread or meeting notes into tasks with owners and due dates, ready for you to confirm.