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Goal: verify the math, confirm it’s the official number, and understand why yours and your CFO’s numbers match.

2.1 · Show the work

Take any answer from Module 1:
Prompt
You’ll see: the sources, the filters, the time window, the assumptions — in plain English. Underneath, the actual SQL is attached to the answer and inspectable by anyone you forward it to. Every number here carries its own audit trail.

2.2 · Is that the official number?

Prompt
You’ll see: whether the answer routed through your company’s governed definition — the single, Finance-approved formula stored centrally — or was computed ad hoc. Governed numbers are the same for everyone who asks: you, your CFO, the board deck, the Monday report. That’s the mechanism, not a promise.

2.3 · The honest no

Prompt
You’ll see: if the data isn’t there, Ana says so — what’s missing and what it would take — rather than producing a confident invention. An analyst who says “I don’t know” when she doesn’t is the one you can trust when she says she does.

✅ Checkpoint

  • You saw the full derivation of a number you’d quote
  • You know whether your headline metric is governed — and asked who owns the definition if not