Your First Question

Five common question patterns to get comfortable with Wissly

Wissly understands a wide range of questions. Here are five patterns you’ll use most often.

Find Information

Use this when you need a specific fact from your documents.

"What was our Q3 2024 domestic revenue?"
"What are the termination terms in the contract with Company B?"
"What did the last board meeting decide?"

Summarize

Use this to pull the key points from long documents or from many documents at once.

"Summarize this research report in three sentences"
"Compile the main issues from weekly reports over the past month"
"Extract the key clauses from the Company A contract into a table"

Compare

Use this to compare documents across metrics or line items.

"Compare the pricing terms of Proposal A and Proposal B"
"How did the key metrics change between the Q1 and Q2 reports?"
"Create a comparison table across three vendor quotes"

See Requesting Comparative Analysis for more.

Cross-Check

Use this to verify a document against a reference — regulations, guidelines, public notices, standard terms — and surface anything missing or out of line.

"Compare this contract draft against our standard guidelines and flag missing or conflicting clauses"
"Check this business plan against the RFP evaluation criteria and point out any unmet requirements"
"Show where this operations manual diverges from the latest revised guidelines"

See Requesting a Cross-Check for more.

Draft Documents

Use this to create new documents from the materials in your connected folders. Drafting and editing take place on the Canvas, which opens automatically when Wissly detects a writing intent such as “draft this as a document.”

"Draft a quarterly report from this material"
"Turn these meeting notes into an email"
"Build an executive briefing from the quarterly performance data"

See Writing with the Canvas to learn how to draft against a required template.

Verifying the Answer

Wissly marks sources in answers as [1], [2], and so on. Click a source to jump to the original document with the relevant passage highlighted — this lets you check the basis of the answer directly.

The more specific the question, the better the result. See Writing Effective Questions for phrasing tips.