Overview

Abra's meeting preparation and post-meeting Q&A features transform vendor meetings from reactive conversations into strategic, collaborative procurement activities. These tools enable procurement teams to prepare thoroughly, collaborate effectively, and extract maximum value from every vendor interaction.

Meeting Preparation

Getting Started with Meeting Prep

Meeting preparation in Abra allows you to collaboratively plan vendor meetings, ensuring critical questions are asked and all stakeholders can contribute to the conversation strategy.

Creating Questions

Individual Question Creation:

1. Navigate to your scheduled meeting in the Meetings section
2. Select the "Prepare" tab
3. Click "Create Question" to open the question modal
4. Enter your question title and provide context or description
5. Save the question to add it to the meeting preparation list

Collaborative Question Building:

• Questions are visible to all team members with access to the meeting
• Team members can add questions before and during the meeting or invite others with the ability to Share Meeting, including team members who do not otherwise have access to Abra
• Questions show clear attribution so you know who contributed what

Post-Meeting AI Q&A

After meetings are transcribed, Abra's AI Q&A feature transforms static meeting transcripts into interactive knowledge sources, sharing answers to prep questions and letting users ask natural language questions and get instant, contextual answers.

Accessing Answers to Meeting Preparation Questions