# Owner asks

> One specific question with one answer — never a thread.

Section: Continuous bookkeeping · Canonical: https://intubu.intuitivecapital-dai.com/docs/owner-asks

When the system needs something only you know, it asks one specific question with a way to answer it directly: choice buttons, an amount, a document upload or free text.

**Not a thread.** "What was this $500 Venmo payment?" with buttons for *Owner draw* / *Vendor payment* / *Other* is answerable in two seconds. An email chain is not.

**Answering does three things:** resolves the work item, writes the answer to workflow memory so it is never asked again, and optionally creates a standing rule so the same thing is handled automatically next time.

**Batching:** during a catch-up, similar questions are grouped. Twelve near-identical Venmo payments become one question answered once.

**An unanswered ask blocks only its own item**, never the whole close.