How to use DenQAI

Start with your decision—not a file, formula, or blank spreadsheet.

Choose the situation that matches you. Each workbench now explains what to gather, what you can learn from a first review, which details can wait, and how to leave with an understandable result.

Choose your situation

Go directly to the question you are trying to answer.

I am choosing whether to own

Compare employment, startup, acquisition, modernization, staged succession, and affiliation using the same rules.

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I am considering a practice purchase

Test how much of the seller’s reported collections may continue for you.

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I am planning a startup

Connect the care model, site, complete budget, bids, changes, opening cash, and dependencies.

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I own or operate a practice

Follow care from production to deposits, reserve, and cash that may be safe to distribute.

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I need to redesign staffing or the schedule

Model team presence, usable rooms, appointment work, service-specific booking pressure, workflow patterns, training, and limited demand tests.

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I am trying to improve access or add an associate

Reconcile patient access, schedule capacity, recall, referrals, rooms, assistants, payer readiness, and mentorship.

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I am planning succession or reviewing an offer

Separate certain closing cash, later value, clinical pay, control, patient commitments, and post-close duties.

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I am comparing vendors or a buying club

Normalize usable units and complete cost, then review sourcing, rebates, commercial influence, data rights, and exit without a vendor ranking.

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I am changing a provider, entity, location, or payer relationship

Map credentialing, contracting, network access, effective dates, first payment, and the cash timing gap without ranking payers.

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Task-based help

Understand the input, result, safety check, and output in the order you need them.

Understanding inputs

Start with the fictional example, then replace only the values you can define. A precise value may still be an assumption. Record the period, unit, and document or report that supports it. Leave unknowns visible instead of filling them with confidence.

Understanding results

Read the plain-language explanation before the detailed table. Keep clinical compensation, ownership return, debt, reserve, owner time, and future value separate. A modeled result organizes questions; it is not a valuation, forecast, loan approval, legal conclusion, or recommendation.

Saving and reopening work

DenQAI does not create an account for these public workbenches. Download a saveable DenQAI project file to your device. When reopened, DenQAI validates the file and recalculates the result. The file is not a backup, cloud project, shared workspace, or permission system.

Excel workbooks and raw CSV

Use the Excel decision workbook when you want a readable package with instructions, inputs, results, safety checks, questions, and definitions. Use raw CSV only when an adviser or software process needs structured data. Opening a CSV in Excel does not make it a designed workbook.

Privacy and permitted data

Use aggregate or coded information. Do not enter patient records, protected health information, employee files, passwords, credentials, full payer contracts, unredacted transaction documents, or information you are not permitted to use. Local processing does not establish permission to share a file.

Preparing professional review

Use DenQAI to organize the question and missing records, then give the readable summary and appropriate workbook to the relevant reviewer. A dental CPA, attorney, lender, clinician, construction professional, payer specialist, or security adviser has a different role. No one adviser should be treated as qualified to answer every question.

Which output should I use?

Choose the human-readable result before the advanced data file.

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    On-page Decision Summary

    Read this first. It explains the major numbers, open safety checks, uncertainty, and next questions.

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    Excel decision workbook

    Use this with advisers when you need separate sheets, readable labels, units, questions, and definitions.

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    Saveable DenQAI project file

    Use this to reopen the same workbench and recalculate from the saved inputs.

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    Advanced raw CSV

    Use this only for data transfer, custom analysis, or a professional who requested structured rows.

Still unsure where to begin?

Start by comparing the ownership paths, then move into the workbench for the path you are actually considering.

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