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Overview

The Advanced Guidance field transforms Rogue’s Autopilot from a powerful assistant into your strategic thought partner. This feature allows you to directly influence how AI analyzes your documents, shapes your outline, and generates content—all with a simple text prompt. Think of it as whispering strategic direction into your AI collaborator’s ear, ensuring every output aligns perfectly with your vision and requirements.

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When to Use Advanced Guidance

The Advanced Guidance field shines in these scenarios:
  • Strategic Focus: When you need outputs centered on specific themes or approaches (“Focus on zero-trust architecture throughout all security sections”)
  • Competitive Differentiation: When highlighting your unique strengths matters (“Emphasize our agile methodology and rapid deployment capabilities”)
  • Specialized Requirements: When addressing niche technical requirements (“Prioritize our quantum-resistant encryption capabilities”)
  • Tone Alignment: When the style of writing matters as much as the content (“Maintain a forward-thinking, innovative tone that positions us as thought leaders”)
  • Document Interpretation: When you want specific aspects of source documents emphasized (“Pay special attention to the disaster recovery requirements on pages 45-48”)

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Real-World Examples

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How It Works

  1. Navigate to the Autopilot tab in your War Room
  2. Find the “Advanced Guidance (Optional)” field below your document selection area
  3. Enter specific instructions (up to 3,000 characters)
  4. NEW: If your solicitation contains task orders or task areas, check the “This solicitation contains task orders or task areas” checkbox
  5. NEW: Choose your preferred outline detail level using the visual selector:
    • Strategic Overview - High-level sections perfect for quick reviews
    • Balanced - Standard depth that works for most proposals (recommended)
    • Comprehensive - Includes specific tasks for detailed implementation planning
    • Exhaustive - Maximum breakdown for complex, multi-faceted proposals
  6. Submit your documents to start the Autopilot process
Your guidance influences every stage of the Autopilot process:
  • Document analysis and extraction
  • Outline generation
  • Win theme identification
  • Compliance matrix creation

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Task Orders and Task Areas

When you check the “This solicitation contains task orders or task areas” checkbox, Autopilot automatically enhances your guidance with specialized instructions to:
  • Create dedicated sections for each task order/area
  • Match the exact numbering scheme from your PWS/SOW
  • Use precise task naming from the solicitation
  • Ensure comprehensive coverage of task-specific requirements
  • Track compliance separately for each task area
This feature ensures your proposal properly addresses complex multi-task solicitations without requiring you to manually specify task-handling instructions in the guidance field.

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Outline Detail Levels

Choose the right level of detail for your proposal outline based on your needs:
  • Strategic Overview - Perfect for executive briefings or when you need high-level structure quickly
  • Balanced - The sweet spot for most government proposals with standard section organization
  • Comprehensive - Ideal when you need task-level implementation details for complex technical proposals
  • Exhaustive - Best for large, multi-year contracts requiring detailed project planning
The visual selector shows you exactly what hierarchy structure you’ll get, so you know if you’re getting “Volume → Section” or “Volume → Section → Subsection → Task → Subtask.”
When to use each level:
  • Use Strategic Overview for capture-phase planning, executive reviews, or when you’re exploring multiple opportunities quickly
  • Use Balanced for standard RFPs where you want proven structure that covers all requirements without overwhelming detail
  • Use Comprehensive for technical proposals where implementation methodology matters and you need specific task breakdowns
  • Use Exhaustive for large-scale system integrations, multi-year contracts, or when the client explicitly requests detailed work breakdown structures

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Writing Effective Guidance

The most effective guidance follows these principles:

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DO:

  • Be specific: “Emphasize our agile development methodology with two-week sprints” works better than “Talk about how we’re agile”
  • Prioritize: “Focus primarily on our cybersecurity capabilities, secondarily on our cloud architecture” helps the AI balance multiple elements
  • Include unique insights: “Highlight that we’re the only vendor with both FedRAMP High and IL5 certifications” provides differentiating information
  • Direct attention: “Pay special attention to the technical evaluation criteria on page 32” focuses analysis where it matters most

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DON’T:

  • Contradict the RFP: Guidance should enhance alignment with requirements, not fight them
  • Be vague: “Make it good” provides no actionable direction
  • Overload with details: Guidance isn’t for providing every technical specification
  • Repeat source document content: The AI already has the source documents

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Advanced Techniques

Strategic guidance can transform standard outputs into winning material:

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Theme Development

Develop all content around our core theme of “Continuous Authority to Operate (cATO)” as our key differentiator. Position our solution as the only one that enables true DevSecOps with continuous monitoring and automated security validation.

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Technical Emphasis

Throughout all technical sections, emphasize our zero-trust architecture and how it’s built into every layer of our solution. Highlight our innovative approach to microsegmentation and identity-based access controls.

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Past Performance Alignment

Connect our technical capabilities to our past performance at similar agencies, specifically emphasizing the 99.999% uptime we achieved for Department of Defense cloud systems under similar constraints.

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Task Area Prioritization

Prioritize Task Areas 3 (Cybersecurity) and 4 (Data Analytics) where we have the strongest capabilities and past performance. For Task Area 3, emphasize our FedRAMP High authorization and security automation tools. For Task Area 4, focus on our proprietary ML-based analytics platform and previous implementations at three similar agencies. For Task Areas 1, 2, and 5, ensure compliance with all requirements but keep sections more concise, emphasizing our qualified partners who will support these areas.
Remember: The Advanced Guidance field isn’t just about telling the AI what to write—it’s about infusing your strategic thinking throughout every element of your proposal. Used effectively, it transforms Autopilot from a powerful tool into your strategic advantage.

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FAQs

Q: How long can my guidance be? A: You can enter up to 3,000 characters, which is approximately 500-600 words. Q: Will guidance override the RFP requirements? A: No. Guidance influences how the AI interprets and emphasizes content, but won’t contradict explicit RFP requirements. Q: Can I use guidance for multiple documents? A: Yes. Your guidance applies to all documents selected for the current Autopilot run. Q: How do I know if my guidance was applied? A: Review the generated content to see how your guidance themes and focus areas were incorporated. Q: Can I save guidance for reuse? A: Not currently, but you can copy and save effective guidance prompts elsewhere for future use.