Question 1

Of the €21,150 I took, how much is really left?

Accepted Answer

It starts from what you took and takes off one cost at a time, down to what's left in your pocket. The bars are in the order the money really goes out, so you see at a glance which item makes the hole — without reading a percentage to understand it. There are two things Kairo can't know, and instead of pretending it tells you. It doesn't know the exact day you pay rent and suppliers, so it puts them on the last day of the month and writes that on top. And it rebuilds staff cost from the shifts, because there's no clock-in card anywhere: that's written on the chart too. Better a number that states where it comes from than one that looks precise and isn't.

Question 2

Do the coming weeks cover the costs or not?

Accepted Answer

How much money is already in the agenda, week by week. It isn't a forecast: these are real appointments, with real people, at your price list. The dotted line is what you need to break even — the columns below it are weeks that, today, lose money. If you haven't entered your costs yet, Kairo doesn't draw that line. It looks like a detail and it's the opposite: with break-even at zero every booking would look like pure profit, and you'd get the wrong idea of the month. Until you give them to it, it asks for those instead of handing you a reassuring chart.

Question 3

If it carries on like this, where do I close the quarter?

Accepted Answer

The months you've already closed, extended over the three to come. Kairo knows your year has a shape — August isn't a collapse, it's August — so it doesn't draw a straight line from the last month as a spreadsheet would. This number isn't made up by the AI: a formula calculates it, always the same one. It means that if you ask twice you get the same answer twice, and that someone can redo the sum. The light dots are the forecast, the solid ones are months that really happened: they're drawn differently on purpose, so you don't mix them up.

Question 4

Which services should I focus on?

Accepted Answer

Your services lined up by how much they take, with the percentage adding up row after row. It's for one thing only: seeing where it makes sense to put your hands. Four items out of twenty make 80% of the month — what you decide there shows at the till, what you decide on the others hardly does. The top group goes up to the item that passes 80%, that one included. It looks like nitpicking and it's the difference between recommending three services and four — that is, between leaving part of your money out or not.

What's left, and what will be

The questions it answers

Cash for the month

Why you can trust this number

Forward bookings

Why you can trust this number

Quarter forecast

Why you can trust this number

Pareto 80/20

Why you can trust this number

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