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"content": "## 3. Identifying Questions using AI\n[Read more about Question & Answer Chain](https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/cluster-nodes/root-nodes/n8n-nodes-langchain.chainretrievalqa/)\n\nUsing the power of LLMs, we're able to extract the RFP questionnaire regardless of original formatting or layout. This allows AutoRFP to handle a wide range of RFPs without requiring explicit extraction rules for edge cases.\n\nAdditionally, We'll use the Input List Output Parser to return a list of questions for further processing."
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"content": "## 4. Generating Question & Answer Pairs with AI\n[Read more about using OpenAI Assistants in n8n](https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/app-nodes/n8n-nodes-langchain.openai/)\n\nBy preparing an OpenAI Assistant with marketing material and sales documents about our company and business, we are able to use AI to answer RFP questions with the accurate and relevant context. Potentially allowing sales teams to increase the number of RFPs they can reply to.\n\nThis portion of the workflow loops through and answers each question individually for better answers. We can record the Question and Answer pairings to the RFP response document we created earlier."
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"content": "## Try It Out!\n\n**This workflow does the following:**\n* Receives a RFP document via webhook\n* Creates a new RFP response document via Google Docs\n* Uses LLMs to extract the questions from the RFP document into a questions list\n* Loops through each question and uses an OpenAI Assistant to generate an answer. Saving each answer into the response document.\n* Once complete, sends a gmail and slack notification to the team.\n\n\n📃**Example Documents**\nTo run this workflow, you'll need to following 2 documents:\n* [RFP Document](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G42h4Vz2lBuiNCnOiXF_-EBP1MaIEVq5/view?usp=sharing)\n* [Example Company Document](https://drive.google.com/file/d/16WywCYcxBgYHXB3TY3wXUTyfyG2n_BA0/view?usp=sharing)\n\n### Need Help?\nJoin the [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/XPKeKXeB7d) or ask in the [Forum](https://community.n8n.io/)!\n\nHappy Hacking!"
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"content": "## 5. Send Notification Once Completed\n[Read more about using Slack](https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/app-nodes/n8n-nodes-base.slack)\n\n\nFinally, we can use a number of ways to notify the sales team when the process is complete. Here, we've opted to send the requesting user an email with a link to the RFP response document."
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