# Review the extracted requirements and matches

URL: https://engiprose.com/help/create-a-proposal/review-requirements-and-matches
Updated: 2026-08-31
Audience: member

See what EngiProse pulled from your RFP, how confidently it matched each section to past proposals, and fix anything it missed.

After an RFP parses, EngiProse shows you exactly what it found and how well
it matched your firm's past work to each requirement. This article covers
both review surfaces: the requirement list on Upload RFP, and the per-section
confidence you'll see once you're building sections.

:::checklist title="What you'll do"
- Review and clean up the extracted requirements
- Read the Strong, Partial, and Thin confidence labels
- Work the unmatched requirements bucket while shaping sections
:::

## The requirement list

Right after parsing, **Review all N requirements** expands a list grouped by
where each requirement appeared in the RFP (a reading aid, not a saved
structure). For each requirement you can edit its text, move it to customer
notes if it's not really a requirement, or delete it if it's parser noise.

Selecting **Match to past proposals** runs matching and shows a summary:

:::annotated-figure src="/help-figures/create-a-proposal/review-requirements-and-matches-1.png" alt="A match summary showing 104 requirements extracted, 9 content matches in past proposals, and a Match confidence bar broken into 0 strong, 9 partial, 95 thin" caption="The match confidence summary after matching" route="/proposals/$proposalId/setup/rfp-upload"
1. Total requirements extracted, and how many of your firm's past proposals matched
2. The confidence bar, split into Strong, Partial, and Thin
3. Counts for each confidence level
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**Strong**, **Partial**, and **Thin** describe how closely a requirement's
best match compares to content from your firm's past winning proposals.
Strong means EngiProse found solid prior content to draft from; Thin means
there's little or nothing to work with, which is common for an RFP outside
your firm's usual territory.

## Sections and the unmatched bucket

Once you're on the Sections step, each section that has linked requirements
shows its own confidence pill, plus the matched prior proposals behind it:

:::annotated-figure src="/help-figures/create-a-proposal/review-requirements-and-matches-2.png" alt="The Sections step with a Partial 0.3 confidence pill and a Thin 0.0 confidence pill on two sections, matched prior proposals detail expanded under one section, and the Unmatched requirements bucket on the right listing 100 chips with a filter box" caption="Per-section confidence and the unmatched requirements bucket" route="/proposals/$proposalId/setup/sections"
1. A section's confidence pill, Partial or Thin, with its score
2. Matched prior proposals for that section: sources, wins, and average score
3. The Unmatched requirements bucket: requirements not yet linked to any section
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A section shows no pill until you've matched, and "Not yet matched" if
matching hasn't run yet. **Unmatched requirements**, on the right, lists
every requirement not linked to a section: drag one onto the right section,
or use **Add requirement** to add one that never made it into the RFP
document (something the customer mentioned by email, for example).

:::note
Every RFP requirement should end up either linked to a section or moved to
customer notes; requirements left in the unmatched bucket won't appear in
what the AI drafts from later.
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::::faq title="Common questions"
:::q question="Why does a section show Thin even though I linked several requirements?"
Confidence reflects how well your firm's past proposals cover this
requirement, not how many requirements you linked. A Thin section usually
means the AI has little prior content to draft from for that topic; uploading
more of your firm's past proposals is the fix (see [Upload past winning
proposals](/help/set-up-your-firm/upload-past-proposals)).
:::
:::q question="Can I re-match after editing requirements?"
Yes. The Sections step lets you trigger matching again for requirements you
add or move.
:::
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