> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.findtempo.co/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What you can ask > Examples of what to ask Tempo from Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client, and how to read what comes back. Tempo answers through the AI platform you connect over [MCP](https://docs.findtempo.co/integrations/mcp.md). You ask in plain language. Your platform picks the Tempo read that fits the question and shows you the evidence behind the answer. The prompts on this page are examples, not a menu. Anything about your deals, your accounts, what customers said, your meetings, or your playbook is fair game. Use these as starting points and ask in your own words. > [!TIP] > > A **fast read** returns stored deal state or cited observations. A **deeper search** takes longer, reads more of your deals, and tells you which deals it covered. Ask for a summary when you want a cited answer in prose. ## Get up to speed on a deal Tempo keeps a generated deal state for every opportunity it tracks, with a cited brief, a next step, and the sources behind them. ```text wrap theme={null} Where does [Tecca Chairs] stand right now? Give me the brief and the next step. ``` ```text wrap theme={null} What are the biggest risks on [Tecca Chairs], and who on their side has raised them? ``` ```text wrap theme={null} I am picking up [Tecca Chairs] from a colleague. What do I need to know before I call them? ``` Each deal state carries an "as of" time. If artifacts arrived after it, Tempo says how many, so you know when a state is behind the evidence. A brand-new deal shows a `generating` status until its first state exists. Your platform can read up to 25 deals in one request, which is how pipeline prompts work. ## Hear what a customer actually said Ask for evidence and Tempo returns observations: cited rows, each with the words it came from and the artifact that holds them. ```text wrap theme={null} Find every mention of a competitor in the [Tecca Chairs] deal. Show each quote and its source. ``` ```text wrap theme={null} Across all my deals, what objections have come up about implementation time? ``` ```text wrap theme={null} Which accounts have asked about data residency in the last quarter, and what did we tell them? ``` ```text wrap theme={null} How do buyers describe the problem we solve, in their own words? ``` Observation search is fast and does not synthesize; your platform summarizes the rows. Each row carries a type, such as Pain, Objection, or Product request, so you can ask for one kind only. Search one deal, a set of deals, or everything you can see. > [!NOTE] > > An empty result means no ranked match, not proof that something was never said. For a yes-or-no check, ask for a deeper search. ## Check something before you rely on it ```text wrap theme={null} Check thoroughly: has [Tecca Chairs] agreed to a pilot, and on what terms? ``` ```text wrap theme={null} Across my open deals, which ones have a named economic buyer? Verify it. ``` ```text wrap theme={null} Is there anything in the [Tecca Chairs] history that contradicts what the champion told us last week? ``` A deeper search returns cited evidence for the deals it reached. Ask your platform to summarize it when you want prose. Check the reported coverage and any gaps before drawing a conclusion. If the result is partial, follow its continuation or narrow the question. ## Read the original ```text wrap theme={null} Read the full transcript from the [Tecca Chairs] technical deep-dive on [date]. What did their architect actually say about SSO? ``` ```text wrap theme={null} Open the email thread where [Tecca Chairs] pushed back on pricing and show me the exact wording. ``` Tempo returns the artifact in pages. Your platform can center a page on a phrase or continue from where the last page ended. ## See your meetings ```text wrap theme={null} What customer meetings do I have this week, and which deals are they linked to? ``` ```text wrap theme={null} List the deal-linked meetings anyone on the team has held with [Tecca Chairs] this year. ``` Tempo lists meetings from your own calendar, optionally narrowed to one deal, and the deal-linked meetings any seller has held with an account. It never shows a teammate's unlinked personal events. ## Scan your pipeline ```text wrap theme={null} List my open deals with their stage, amount, and close date. ``` ```text wrap theme={null} Which of my deals have had no buyer touch since [date]? ``` ```text wrap theme={null} What fields does Tempo track on [Tecca Chairs], and what are their current values? ``` ```text wrap theme={null} Which deals look like [Tecca Chairs]? I want to reuse what worked there. ``` Your platform can read every deal in your organization that Tempo shows. An unscoped deal list covers the organization; ask for "my deals" to narrow it to deals you own. Field values include your CRM fields and any Tempo-managed fields. Look-alikes match on deal-state language, so treat them as orientation and confirm with the deal's evidence. ## Ask why across every deal These questions need the evidence behind each deal, not just its fields. Tempo answers from the observations across your pipeline and cites them deal by deal. Ask for a thorough answer when the list is long. ```text wrap theme={null} For each closed-lost deal, why did we lose it? ``` ```text wrap theme={null} Which deals did we lose to a competitor, and why? ``` ```text wrap theme={null} Which open deals are paused, and what would restart them? ``` ```text wrap theme={null} Which open deals never had the economic buyer on a call? ``` ## See what is recurring across deals If your organization has [Themes](https://docs.findtempo.co/themes.md) turned on, ask what Tempo is finding. ```text wrap theme={null} What themes are growing across our deals in the last 30 days? For the top three, which accounts raised them? ``` ```text wrap theme={null} What are accounts like [Tecca Chairs] raising lately? ``` ```text wrap theme={null} Show me the theme about data residency: its examples and the deals it appears on. ``` Theme browsing defaults to the last 30 days. A search for a subject defaults to the last 365 days. You can narrow either by observation type, source, status, and topic. Ask for a theme's evidence to get the observations, deals, and accounts behind it. [Signals](https://docs.findtempo.co/signals.md) are defined by your admins in the Tempo app; the observations a signal records are ordinary observations, so they show up in evidence searches like anything else. You can also ask which live signals appeared on your accounts or deals. Ask for the observations behind each result when you need the source wording. ```text wrap theme={null} Which of my accounts had a cross-sell signal this week? Show what was said on each deal. ``` ## Apply your playbook If your admins have added [Playbook](https://docs.findtempo.co/playbook.md) sources, ask how your methodology, stage criteria, or messaging applies. ```text wrap theme={null} How does our playbook say to handle a competitive displacement against [Competitor]? ``` ```text wrap theme={null} Against our exit criteria for [stage], what is [Tecca Chairs] missing? ``` Playbook results are organization guidance, not deal evidence. Tempo never uses them on their own to support a claim about a specific deal. ## Combine and follow up The best prompts chain these together: a brief, then the evidence behind one point, then the original wording. You can also skip the prompt and run a [skill](https://docs.findtempo.co/using/skills.md), which packages a whole workflow such as meeting prep or a call debrief. ```text wrap theme={null} Brief me on [Tecca Chairs], then show me the quotes behind the top risk, then open the call where it came up. ``` Ask your platform to show the sources behind any answer at any time. ## How citations work Every observation Tempo returns carries the claim, its type, and the deal it belongs to; the source words that support it; and the artifact they came from, with its date and source. Synthesized answers cite the same way and also report what they could not find. When an artifact is retracted, its observations are removed and never cited again. See [Adding context](https://docs.findtempo.co/using/adding-context.md#retract-an-artifact). ## What Tempo does not do * **Send messages.** Tempo does not send email or Slack messages. If you ask your platform to write a follow-up, it writes from Tempo's context and uses its own mail connector, if it has one. * **Write CRM fields outside the update flow.** Field changes go through [CRM update proposals](https://docs.findtempo.co/using/reviewing-crm-updates.md). The exception is creating a new account, contact, or opportunity, which writes the CRM record directly. * **Track action items.** Tempo does not keep a task list. Commitments come back as observations and in deal state, like any other evidence. * **See other sellers' calendars.** Account-level meeting lists are the one exception, and they include only deal-linked meetings. * **Sync CRM leads or tasks.** Tempo works with accounts, contacts, and opportunities. * **Read another organization's deals.** Your platform can read only the deals available to your Tempo organization. This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.