RFP Mastery · Advanced

Governance: what to do when the model wants to hallucinate

Confidence thresholds, audit trails, and the non-negotiable rules of safe RFP automation.

10 min

Outcomes

  • Set the right confidence threshold for your domain
  • Design an audit trail that survives a customer dispute
  • Enforce the answer-only-from-library rule for sensitive categories

The non-negotiables

Security and compliance questions: answer-only-from-library, no exceptions, mandatory SME sign-off regardless of confidence.

Every answer carries provenance: library entry, version, reviewer, timestamp, prompt, model.

Run a hallucination drill

  1. Take a question deliberately absent from your library.
  2. Submit it to the agent.
  3. Confirm the agent refuses to draft and routes to a human.

Further reading