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Sammy is SamSearch’s built-in AI assistant. Ask anything about government contracting — decode an RFP, research agencies, draft proposal sections, summarize a pursuit, redesign your dashboard, or draft an email — and Sammy already knows what page you’re looking at.
Sammy chat interface

Where Sammy Lives

Sammy is the same assistant everywhere — the same tools, the same approval flow, the same citation system — but the context it starts with changes depending on where you open it from.
Sammy chat opened from an opportunity detail page, pre-loaded with the solicitation documents

The Docked Panel

Sammy isn’t limited to its own chat tab. A docked panel is available from any page in the app, so you can ask a question without losing your place.
Docked Sammy panel open alongside an opportunity page, showing the chat input and conversation thread
  • Ask Sammy button — in the top navigation bar on any page, opens the docked panel without navigating away. It’s resizable — drag its left edge — and reserves its own space rather than covering the page.
  • Dashboard search box — on your home Dashboard, the search box prompts “Ask Sammy to…” with rotating suggestions like find opportunities, draft an email, or summarize my pursuits.
  • Wherever you open it from, the docked panel already knows what you’re looking at — an opportunity, a journey, a proposal draft — and answers accordingly, the same way Sammy does from its full chat page.
Sammy’s launcher is unavailable until your account is on a paid plan or an active trial — you’ll see it disabled with a tooltip explaining why until then.

What Sammy Can Do

Find Opportunities

Ask Sammy to search across every source — “Find federal cybersecurity opportunities due in the next 30 days” — and results come back as actionable cards you can save or start a journey from directly in the conversation

Draft & Send Emails

Ask Sammy to draft an email — to a contracting officer, teaming partner, or teammate. If you’ve connected Gmail or Outlook, Sammy can send it without leaving the conversation; otherwise it opens in your mail client

Summarize a Pursuit

Ask what’s outstanding on a journey — tasks, compliance gaps, submission deadline — without opening every tab yourself

Read Attached Documents

Upload or @-reference any PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CSV, or text file and ask Sammy about its contents — including scanned solicitations Sammy can extract text and tables from

Page-Aware Context

When you open Sammy from a contract page, journey, or proposal editor, it already has the right documents and metadata loaded — no copy-pasting

Redesign Your Dashboard

Tell Sammy how you want your home Dashboard laid out and it proposes a new layout for you to apply — see below

Redesigning Your Dashboard

This is one of Sammy’s least-obvious capabilities: you can ask it to change how your home Dashboard looks, in plain language — “put my overdue tasks at the top” or “show me a bigger recommendations widget.” Sammy proposes a schematic layout preview (not the live dashboard, just its shape) with a summary of the change. Click Apply to dashboard to make it real, or Cancel to dismiss the suggestion. Once applied, you can ask Sammy to tweak it further, or just say “reset my dashboard” to go back to the default.

Charts in Chat

Ask Sammy for a chart — a breakdown of your pipeline by stage, a comparison of set-aside types, agency spending in your NAICS codes — and it renders directly in the conversation, with a one-click Copy as image to paste it elsewhere.

Human-in-the-Loop Approval

Some of what Sammy can do changes real data in your account — creating tasks, moving a journey’s stage, saving an opportunity, updating your compliance matrix, editing your Company Profile. For any of these, Sammy pauses and asks first.
Sammy chat with a human-in-the-loop approval banner showing a proposed change
You’ll see a banner reading:
Sammy needs your approval before applying this change
with the specific proposed change shown above it — for example, which tasks will be created, which journey column a pursuit will move to, or which compliance requirements will be added or updated — and two buttons: Decline and Approve. Nothing is applied until you click Approve; Decline discards the proposed change entirely. There’s no partial-approval or edit-before-approving option — it’s a straight yes/no on exactly what’s shown.
Read-only requests — searching, summarizing, answering questions — never trigger this banner. It only appears when Sammy is about to write something.

Uploading & Referencing Documents

Uploading a file directly into the chat composer:
  • Up to 50 MB per file, 150 MB total per request, and 20 files per request
  • Accepted types: .pdf .doc .docx .xls .xlsx .pptx .csv .txt, plus common image formats
A file that’s too large or an unsupported type is silently dropped from the attachment tray rather than shown with an error — if a file you dragged in doesn’t appear, check its size and extension against the limits above before assuming the upload is just slow.
Referencing a document without uploading it — type @ in the chat input to open a picker over your Company Profile documents and the current opportunity’s or journey’s attachments. This is often faster than uploading, since anything already in your Company Profile or a journey is already indexed.
Where a document lives changes what it can feed. Company Profile documents are available to Sammy and to proposal generation everywhere in the app. Documents uploaded only inside a single journey are available to that journey’s chat and proposal, but contribute less strongly to that journey’s Strategy Insights and compliance assessment. Put anything you’ll want referenced broadly — capability statements, past performance — in your Company Profile.

Suggested Prompts & the Prompt Library

When you open a new chat, Sammy shows three suggested prompts tailored to where you are — different sets for the global assistant, an opportunity page, a journey, an SBIR/STTR topic, the proposal editor, and Fill & Sign. If you’ve pinned any prompts, those replace the suggestions. Click Browse prompt library to open the full curated collection, organized into nine categories:
  • Contract Analysis & Understanding — requirements, scope, deadlines, evaluation criteria
  • Opportunity Assessment — bid/no-bid analysis, competitive landscape, capability match
  • Proposal Development — drafting, refinement, compliance and formatting checks
  • Document Analysis — summarizing, extracting deadlines/deliverables, comparing versions
  • Strategic Planning — win strategy, resource planning, business development
  • AI-Assisted Writing — generating ideas, tightening prose, restructuring content
  • Technical Assistance — technical requirements, solution approaches
  • Performance & Past Experience — capability statements, past-performance narratives
  • Proposal Strategy — competitive positioning, pricing strategy
Search, filter by category or Favorites, and star any prompt to pin it to your new-chat screen.

Your own prompts

Click New prompt in the library to write your own: give it an optional title, write the prompt, and click Save prompt. It’s added under Your prompts. Saving a prompt you already have just tells you it’s already in your prompts. To change a saved prompt, hover over it in Your prompts and click the pencil (Edit prompt). The same editor opens with your text filled in; make your changes and click Save changes. If the save is refused — for example, because the new text duplicates another saved prompt — you’ll see an error and the editor stays open with your text intact, so nothing is lost. The trash icon next to the pencil deletes the prompt.

Citations

Sammy doesn’t just give you an answer — it shows you where the answer came from, so you can verify anything that matters before you rely on it.
When Sammy’s answer draws on an uploaded or referenced document, you’ll see small numbered citation chips inline in the response ([1], [2], or [N sources] when several are bundled together). Click one to jump straight to the cited page in the document viewer, with the exact passage highlighted — not just the right page, but the right sentence. When Sammy references a specific opportunity or partner from a search it ran, that shows up as a full result card right in the conversation (with Save / Start Journey actions), or — if it’s mentioned inline in a sentence — as a small hoverable chip with a preview.
You can also work the other direction: select text inside an attached document or inside Sammy’s own answer and click Ask about this to drop that exact excerpt into your next question as context. Once you send the question, the quoted excerpt stays visible above your message in the conversation, so you can always see which passage you asked about.

Analyzing an Opportunity with Sammy

1

Open an opportunity

Navigate to any Federal, SLED, DIBBS, or other opportunity detail page
2

Open Sammy

Sammy opens pre-loaded with the opportunity’s documents and metadata
3

Ask specific questions

Examples: “What are the evaluation criteria?”, “Is this set aside for small businesses?”, “What past performance volume is required?”
4

Review sources

Sammy cites the specific page and passage each answer came from
5

Click through to verify

Click any citation to see the highlighted text in the document viewer

Memory

Sammy remembers key facts about your company and about you, split into two types:
  • Company Learnings — what Sammy has learned about your business from your profile and documents, shared across your organization
  • Your Memories — personal facts and preferences Sammy has picked up from your own conversations, visible only to you
A related, separate stream — Learned From Your Feedback — captures the patterns Sammy infers from your thumbs up/down ratings on opportunities. These patterns can raise or lower a future opportunity’s recommendation score, but they never disqualify one outright. View and manage all three in the Memories tab of your Company Profile. To update what Sammy knows, just tell it — “We now have a CMMC Level 1 certification,” or “Our focus market is DoD cybersecurity.”

Tips

Be specific

“What compliance requirements apply to this contract?” gets a better answer than “Tell me about this opportunity.”

Add context

Tell Sammy who you are: “We’re a woman-owned small business with 5 years in IT managed services…”

Use follow-ups

Start broad, then drill down: “What are the key requirements?” → “Do we meet the past performance standard?”

Verify important claims

Click through citations on anything that matters, and cross-reference critical compliance or legal information against the actual solicitation document.
Sammy is a research and drafting assistant, not a substitute for legal or compliance review. For high-stakes decisions, consult your legal team or the contracting officer directly.

FAQ

Your personal chat sessions are private to your account. Chats opened from within a journey are visible to teammates who have access to that journey, consistent with the journey’s own visibility setting.
Yes. Open the chat history (the sidebar on full-page Sammy, or the history icon on the docked panel) and use the session’s menu to rename, pin, or delete it.
Sammy reads your Company Profile — business description, certifications, NAICS/PSC codes — and any documents you’ve uploaded there or referenced in the conversation. The more complete your Company Profile, the more relevant Sammy’s answers everywhere in the app.
It was likely silently rejected for exceeding 50 MB, or for an unsupported file type. Check it against the accepted extensions above and try again.
You’ll see an approval banner (“Sammy needs your approval before applying this change”) describing exactly what’s about to happen, with Decline and Approve buttons. Nothing is written until you approve it.
Yes. Sammy can extract text and tables from scanned PDFs and images you upload or reference.
Yes — describe the layout you want and Sammy proposes a preview you can apply or cancel. See Redesigning Your Dashboard above.