# Ask in plain English

> Open the Ask drawer from the sidebar and ask your site anything; the answer is built from your numbers, with the queries it ran listed above it.

Section: CLI, MCP and API  
Canonical page: https://statsy.co/docs/developers/ask  
Last updated: 2026-09-21

**Ask about this site** in the sidebar opens a drawer. Type a question the way you would ask a colleague, for example “which channels brought paying customers last month?”, and the answer streams in, with a line above it naming the queries it ran.

It is the same set of read-only tools the [MCP server](https://statsy.co/docs/developers/mcp) gives Claude or Cursor, so an answer here and an answer in your editor agree. It never writes anything: goals and notes are still created by you.

> **Tip.** Ask needs an OpenAI-compatible key on the server (`OPENAI_API_KEY`); without one the drawer says so instead of failing quietly.

## Frequently asked questions

### Does the assistant make numbers up?

No. It answers only by running the same read-only queries the MCP tools expose (overview, trend, breakdowns, attribution, subscriptions, bots, goals, funnels) and says which ones it ran. Anything it cannot look up, it says it cannot.

### Is there a limit?

Fifty questions a day per workspace, shared by everyone in it. Viewers can ask; nothing is changed by asking.

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