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A Begin AI answer card giving one person's scheduled and worked hours for the week A Begin AI answer card giving one person's scheduled and worked hours for the week Open Begin AI and ask in plain language. Workspace answers use your data as it is now, limited to what your role can see. Product guidance comes from Begin’s official help articles. Select Begin AI in the sidebar ribbon, or press Cmd+J (Ctrl+J on Windows) to ask from the side panel.
A Begin AI chat answering which Friday shifts are still unassignedA Begin AI chat answering which Friday shifts are still unassigned

Begin AI keeps your question and its answer together in the chat.

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Ask one clear question

Name the period and the figure you need. Add the person, position or location when the answer should cover only part of the workspace.

How many hours is each person scheduled for this week?

How many hours did each person work last month, using approved timesheet hours?

Follow up in the same chat when you want the answer narrowed or rearranged. For example, ask it to break the result down by position instead of repeating the whole question. You can type while Begin AI is still working. It finishes the step it is on, then reads your message together with what it has done so far, so “also add Anna to Friday” changes the work in progress instead of waiting for an answer that no longer fits. Remove the message before it sends, and Begin AI carries on as it was. To ask about a file, open Files, skills and sources and choose Upload file. An image or PDF can be up to 5 MB and other files up to 10 MB; large photos are reduced before upload. Begin AI can read an image or PDF for up to seven days after you send it, and other files for 24 hours. After that, upload the file again.

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Get help using Begin

Ask how to publish a schedule or why a control is missing. Begin AI searches the help centre, reads relevant articles and links to its sources. Open those links for the full instructions. Official help remains available with Web access off. An article can describe a feature your workspace has not enabled. Your role and workspace settings still decide what you can use. If Begin AI cannot find or read the help it needs, it says what it could not verify.

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Choose the hours you mean

Hours come from the roster unless you say otherwise. Ask for approved timesheet hours when you mean hours somebody worked, or for Paid / scheduled hours when you want the figure shown on the schedule page. Hours split by person, position or location come back as hours. A result split by day or by kind of block comes back as counts. If an answer is not the measure you expected, name the source and grouping in your next message. For hours by client, name the Hours by client report. Begin AI reads it as it stands: approved time entries this month.

Using the Hours by client report, which clients had the most paid hours this month?

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Clients are rolling out gradually, so your workspace may not have them yet. Where they are off, Begin AI says clients are not enabled in your workspace.

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Count working days

Ask how many working days or hours a person should work in a period. Begin AI counts them from that person’s working week and their country’s public holidays, and names the days it counted. Mention days to leave out, such as a business trip, and it gives what is left.

How many working days does Anna have in November if she is on a business trip from 3 to 8 November?

Begin AI uses your workspace’s monthly AI allowance. If it says you are out, an administrator can buy more AI tokens under Settings → Billing and plans.

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Using skills in a chat

Attach saved instructions before you send a request.

Taking actions

Let Begin AI change the workspace.

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