Top Tip: Using QPilot and Smart Search with multi-part questions

Often in RFIs and RFPs, what might be labelled as a single question is actually multiple questions all rolled into one. That can make searching for an answer that addresses all the question parts in one go a bit tricky. 

Here’s an example of a multi-part question: 

Describe your experience in drafting and reviewing contracts for companies in the energy sector. What specific types of stakeholders have you worked with? How do you ensure our interests are protected and risks are mitigated during negotiations? Explain your approach to negotiating contract terms and conditions.

Depending on your content and the complexity of the question, you might find that popping the whole question in Smart Search works well for you and it’s enough. 

However, if you are struggling and you’re not getting great results, here’s what you can do: 

1. Break the big multi-part question up into multiple simpler questions. You can use QPilot to help you do this. 

Here’s an example prompt you can try: Simplify the multi-part question in the @highlighted text into individual simplified questions, with one question per line. Be sure to preserve the overall context.

1. Use Smart Search with each individual question part, one part at a time. This keeps the Smart Search hyper-focused, and you’ll get much better results.
2. Assemble the answer parts into one consolidated answer with QPilot’s help. 

Here’s an example prompt: The @highlighted text contains a series of questions and answers. Extract these answers and rewrite them as one answer in response to the following RFP question: <copy and paste the original question here>.