You don't know what you don't know

Discovery Engine Changes Old-School forms into Modern Information Streams.

Most forms assume you already know the right questions. Discovery Engine doesn’t. It starts with a small baseline, asks the next best question, and continues until the purpose of the form is truly met.

Note: This is designed for intake and operational knowledge (onboarding, call-handling rules, lead qualification, process discovery) — not old surveys.

Technical Overview

When your “real” form would be 30 questions… but the branching paths make it 100. Discovery Engine reduces that to a guided conversation that learns what matters.

  • Asks exactly one next question at a time
  • Stops cleanly when sufficiency is reached
  • Preserves every question/answer for review and improvement
  • Surfaces recurring “hidden gem” themes you didn’t think to ask about
  • Portal style protected form builder for initial non-ai questions
  • Future Analytics based on your needs. AI driven/custom.
  • Purpose definition to help AI understand your goals.
  • Alternate stop conditions
  • Local "Hosted" or remote domain setting
  • Customized look and feel controls
  • Storage of both Questions and Answers

Modern benefits

Discovery Engine replaces long, fragile forms with a guided conversation that focuses on outcomes instead of paperwork. The result is better information, collected with less effort.

Less effort, better answers

Instead of forcing people through every possible question, Discovery Engine asks only what’s relevant next. That means fewer questions, clearer answers, and less frustration for everyone involved.

Learns what actually matters

Static forms freeze assumptions in time. Discovery Engine adapts as patterns emerge, uncovering details and edge cases you didn’t know to ask about when the form was first created.

Clear stopping point

The conversation ends when the information is sufficient — not when a checklist runs out. No over-questioning, no awkward endings, just a natural sense of completion.

Usable knowledge, not raw responses

What you collect isn’t just stored — it’s organized into knowledge you can actually use for calls, onboarding, routing, or follow-up, with humans always in control.

In short: Discovery Engine makes forms more productive by focusing on learning, relevance, and clarity — not exhaustive question lists.

From questions to answers — automatically

DiscoveryEngine can stop asking questions when it already has enough information and generate a final recommendation immediately.

Adaptive intake

Starts small and asks only the next most relevant question.

Automatic stop

Recognizes when the goal is met and ends the interview.

Answer mode

Switches from questions to a final recommendation.

Public or private

Works for customer-facing tools and internal applications. There is a real-world customer-facing application at code-and-host.com

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A modern solution

The next question, then and now

Traditional forms follow a fixed script: a predefined list of questions written in advance. Discovery Engine replaces that script with a learning loop that decides what to ask next based on what has already been said.

  • Then: static questions frozen at design time
  • Now: dynamic questions chosen at runtime
  • Then: complex branching trees and guesswork
  • Now: one clear next question, informed by context

This shift makes forms more productive — focusing attention on what actually matters and uncovering important details that would never appear in a prewritten questionnaire.

Not your father's web form

Traditional forms collect answers to questions you already thought to ask. Discovery Engine does something different: it learns what questions should exist by listening to real answers and asking the next best question in context.

  • No giant branching logic trees
  • No pre-built 100-question “mega forms”
  • No guessing what matters before users ever respond
  • Questions evolve as patterns emerge
  • Hidden gaps surface naturally through conversation
  • The form gets smarter with real usage