# DenQAI: startup buildout workbook

File-specific companion · 2026-09-10

## Purpose

Does the complete startup budget preserve opening cash and household reserve?

**Who:** Startup owner, architect, project manager, lender, and financial reviewer

**Records:** Issued scope; lease; comparable bids; equipment quotes; change proposals; funding terms; opening dependencies and reserve needs.

## Complete the file

1. Read Start Here and Fictional Example before entering Your Inputs and Capital Budget.
2. Reconcile Bid Comparison to the same issued scope, then record approved and pending changes in Change Ledger.
3. Review Opening Dependencies and Results for funding gaps and reserve limits.
4. Assign unresolved Safety Checks and adviser questions to their responsible reviewers.

## Definitions

- **Capital budget:** Complete modeled uses required to develop and open the practice.
- **Contingency:** Budget allowance retained for defined uncertainty, not spare household cash.
- **Opening dependency:** A prerequisite whose completion permits the next opening task.

## Fictional example

Fictional example: A $25,000 electrical change remains pending while the opening dependency awaits utility approval; show both rather than absorbing the cost into construction silently.

## Review and next action

Close the next site, cost, funding, or dependency gap before the related commitment.

The guided workbook does not inspect a site, approve code compliance, validate contractor scope, or guarantee financing or opening dates. Funding reserves use base cost plus the greater of reserved contingency or approved changes. Pending changes inside remaining contingency do not add the same reserve twice. Blank required inputs are unavailable, not zero.

[Related DenQAI guide](https://denqai.com/startup)

## AI coach prompt

Help me use DenQAI’s startup buildout workbook. My question is: Does the complete startup budget preserve opening cash and household reserve? Explain these terms in plain language: Capital budget, Contingency, Opening dependency. Ask one question at a time about the required records: Issued scope; lease; comparable bids; equipment quotes; change proposals; funding terms; opening dependencies and reserve needs. Walk through the supplied fictional example before asking me for inputs. Treat every missing value as unknown, not zero. Do not invent source records, contract terms, legal conclusions, or clinical facts. Use only permitted fictional or aggregate, non-identifying information. Follow this boundary: The guided workbook does not inspect a site, approve code compliance, validate contractor scope, or guarantee financing or opening dates. Funding reserves use base cost plus the greater of reserved contingency or approved changes. Pending changes inside remaining contingency do not add the same reserve twice. Blank required inputs are unavailable, not zero. End with the missing evidence and this next step: Close the next site, cost, funding, or dependency gap before the related commitment.

## AI review prompt

Review my permitted fictional or aggregate draft of DenQAI’s startup buildout workbook against the file instructions. Check each required field and period, units, evidence locator, assumptions, arithmetic where formulas are actually supplied, and unresolved contradictions. Check the sequence: Read Start Here and Fictional Example before entering Your Inputs and Capital Budget. Reconcile Bid Comparison to the same issued scope, then record approved and pending changes in Change Ledger. Review Opening Dependencies and Results for funding gaps and reserve limits. Assign unresolved Safety Checks and adviser questions to their responsible reviewers. Separate facts from assumptions and missing records. Do not supply unsupported numbers or make a professional decision for me. Apply this limitation: The guided workbook does not inspect a site, approve code compliance, validate contractor scope, or guarantee financing or opening dates. Funding reserves use base cost plus the greater of reserved contingency or approved changes. Pending changes inside remaining contingency do not add the same reserve twice. Blank required inputs are unavailable, not zero. Return corrections, questions for the responsible reviewer, and the next action.