# Reports and questions

> A report that assembles itself, and an answer from your own data when you ask on a Tuesday.

Section: Automations
Address: https://scytian.com/docs/reports-and-questions
Updated: 2026-09-14

Two things that look different and run on the same mechanism.

## A report that arrives

You say what you want to know and how often. From then on the agent reads your systems, counts it the way your company agreed, and sends it: a notification on Monday morning, a mail, a file. Nobody assembles it and nobody forgets it.

A threshold can be attached to any number. Below the line you hear nothing. When it is crossed, one message arrives the same day with the rows behind it.

## A question you ask once

Some questions come up because of something that just happened, and building a report for them would take longer than the answer is worth. You ask in plain words and the answer comes back with what it was counted from: which systems, how many rows, how fresh.

## Words have one meaning

Two people bring two figures to a meeting because they mean different things by the same word. The definitions are written down once, you approve them, and every report and every answer after that uses them. Revenue means one thing, everywhere.

## The shape follows the answer

A trend gets a chart, a comparison gets a table, a single fact gets a sentence. Numbers open into the rows they came from.

## What it will not answer

It does not fill a gap with a guess. If half the records have no region, the answer says so and says how many.

It is not a forecast. It tells you what happened and what it looks like it is doing.