Unlocking AI’s Potential: Prompt Engineering Lessons-Learned Report for BD and Proposal Pros

We’re excited to share key insights from our new Lohfeld GenAI Prompt Engineering Lessons-Learned Report exploring prompt engineering for proposal professionals. Public Generative AI (GenAI) models like ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, Transformer-XL, and many others—as well as private platforms from Procurement Sciences, Rohirrim, and others—have incredible potential to transform proposal development. However, thoughtfully crafted prompts are crucial to guiding these public and private tools.

Through extensive hands-on testing, our seasoned proposal experts identified techniques to create prompts that yield tailored, strategy-aligned outputs versus generic text from AI. These experiments reveal prompt engineering best practices to maximize value from AI augmentation.

If you’re a BD, capture, or proposal professional looking to exploit GenAI, download the report to get an in-depth look at our team’s tests, refinements, and recommendations for engineering effective prompts. The report shares:

• Context specifics that improved relevance
• Ways to tap AI for differentiated text
• Concise prompting approaches
• Insights on the power of sequential interactions
• Methods for specifying output formatting
• …And more prompt engineering insights

Click to download Lohfeld’s Prompt Engineering Lessons-Learned Report

Let us know if you have any questions or would like to talk with us about our private Generative AI Proposal Development Center and associated training.

By Beth Wingate, President, Lohfeld Consulting Group, APMP Past CEO, APMP Fellow

Lohfeld Consulting Group has proven results specializing in helping companies create winning captures and proposals. As the premier capture and proposal services consulting firm focused exclusively on government markets, we provide expert assistance to government contractors in Capture Planning and Strategy, Proposal Management and Writing, Capture and Proposal Process and Infrastructure, and Training. In the last 3 years, we’ve supported over 550 proposals winning more than $170B for our clients—including the Top 10 government contractors. Lohfeld Consulting Group is your “go-to” capture and proposal source! Start winning by contacting us at www.lohfeldconsulting.com and join us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

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