🏆Writing Effective Prompts in Ensis

Ensis allows you to refine and revise proposal content with AI using custom prompts, ensuring your responses align with your strategy, tone, and compliance needs. Ensis can also incorporate details from your selected past performance and resources, allowing you to generate more specific and tailored content.

Follow these best practices to guide your revisions effectively.

1. Be Specific About What You Want to Change

✅ Good Example: "Make this section more concise while keeping the key technical details." 🚫 Less Effective: "Shorten this."

✅ Good Example: "Improve clarity by simplifying jargon and making sentences more direct." 🚫 Less Effective: "Make this clearer."

Why? AI works best when given clear instructions. Specify what aspect of the text needs improvement—clarity, conciseness, compliance, or persuasiveness.

2. Request More Details from Past Performance and Resources

Ensis can enrich responses by pulling details from your selected Resources. If a revision needs more specificity, prompt Ensis accordingly.

✅ Good Example: "Expand this section by referencing our implementation for [Client Name] where we deployed this solution in under 90 days." 🚫 Less Effective: "Make this more detailed."

✅ Good Example: "Incorporate details from our case study on [Project X] to highlight our experience with AI-driven compliance automation." 🚫 Less Effective: "Mention our experience with compliance automation."

Why? Ensis knows your selected resources and can include specific details—just ask for them!

3. Provide Context to Align with Strategy

✅ Good Example: "Revise this to align with our key differentiators: scalable architecture, rapid deployment, and compliance automation." 🚫 Less Effective: "Make this highlight our strengths."

✅ Good Example: "Ensure this response emphasizes how our solution reduces implementation risk and meets federal security standards." 🚫 Less Effective: "Make this sound more compelling."

Why? If your revision needs to reflect a specific value proposition or key message, include those details in your prompt.

4. Guide the Tone and Style

✅ Good Example: "Rewrite this to be more formal and professional, suitable for a government contract proposal." 🚫 Less Effective: "Make this sound better."

✅ Good Example: "Refine this section to be persuasive, emphasizing how our solution reduces implementation risk." 🚫 Less Effective: "Make this stronger."

Why? Whether you need a formal, technical, or persuasive tone, specifying the desired style helps achieve better results.

5. Use Examples to Demonstrate Desired Changes

✅ Good Example: "Reword this to sound more like: ‘Our platform streamlines compliance by automating requirement tracking.’" 🚫 Less Effective: "Make this sound smoother."

Why? If there’s a specific way you’d like the revision to be worded, providing an example can be very effective.

6. Ask for Iterative Improvements

✅ Good Example: "Refine this section to highlight our successful deployment of [Project Name], focusing on our ability to meet tight deadlines and exceed performance benchmarks." ✅ (After first revision) "Now make this more concise while keeping the details about our on-time delivery and performance results."

Why? If the first revision isn’t quite right, refining the prompt with additional direction can improve the output.

7. Keep It Within Scope

✅ Good Example: "Ensure this addresses all three points listed in the requirement while improving readability." 🚫 Less Effective: "Rewrite this to be perfect."

Why? AI can make effective improvements, but it works best with clear, achievable goals.

Final Tips

• Ask for specific details—Ensis knows your past performance and selected resources, so leverage them!

• Test different phrasing if the first revision isn’t quite right.

• Combine multiple best practices in a single prompt (e.g., specificity + tone + context).

• Review and refine—Ensis lets you iterate to get the best version of your content.

By following these best practices, you’ll get more precise, high-quality revisions that align with your proposal strategy and leverage your past work effectively.