Get started with Ask Yarken

Start using Ask Yarken to explore spend, investigate trends, and answer operational questions faster.

Before you begin

Before using Ask Yarken, confirm that:

An administrator has enabled the relevant AI settings.
You have access to the cost center, account, and entity data.
Your organization's data (master, assets, account payables - vendors, invoices, contracts) has been loaded and expense distribution mapped till consumers in Yarken.

Ask Yarken answers are only as complete as the governed data and permissions available to the user.

How to use Ask Yarken

To open Ask Yarken:

Select Ask Yarken from the top navigation bar.
Enter a question (or click the microphone button to activate voice-to-text) in the chat box.
Send the question.

Ask Yarken opens first in a sidebar view so you can ask a question while staying on your current page.

Ask Yarken performs better when names match the values used in your Yarken data.

Review dictated text before sending it, especially for vendor names, account names, cost centers, project names, and acronyms.

Stop a response

You can stop an active response when:

You entered the wrong question.
The response is taking longer than needed.
You want to reframe the request.
The analysis is moving in the wrong direction.

To start a new chat:

Open Ask Yarken.
Select + for New Chat.
Enter your question.
Send the question.

Start a new chat when you are changing topics. This helps Ask Yarken keep the conversation context clean.

Ask Yarken viewing modes

The sidebar view is useful for quick questions and follow-up analysis while you stay on the current Yarken screen.

The sidebar includes:

Suggested prompts under Try these.
A prompt box.
A send/stop button.
A microphone button for voice-to-text input.
A new chat button.
A chat history button.
A full-screen button.
A close button.

Full-screen view

To open full-screen view, select the full-screen icon in the Ask Yarken sidebar view.

Use full-screen view when you need more space for analysis.

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It is especially useful when you want to:

Review longer responses.
Compare previous conversations.
Continue an earlier thread.
Share a thread with other users.
Delete or unshare a thread.
Work through multi-step analysis.

Manage Ask Yarken chats

Continue an existing chat

In full-screen view, use the left-side history panel to open previous conversations.

Continue an existing chat when the next question depends on earlier analysis.

For example, after asking for the top cloud spend drivers, you can ask:

Break that down by business consumer.

Ask Yarken uses the conversation context to understand what that follow-up refers to.

Ask Yarken supports sharing a chat thread with users in your Yarken organization who already have access to the relevant data.

Use sharing when a conversation contains analysis that should be visible to other stakeholders, such as Finance, IT leadership, FinOps, or business owners.

Shared conversations remain governed by access controls.