# Prepare for a government buyer meeting with evidence they can use

Connect your experience to the buyer’s stated need, bring useful questions and leave with a specific next action.

Canonical article: https://g2x.com/blog/prepare-government-buyer-research-meeting

Complete article, source links and data tables: https://g2x.com/blog/prepare-government-buyer-research-meeting/article.md

The article is public. Linked G2X tools and records retain their account and plan requirements.

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## For agents

Prepare a buyer research meeting with supported evidence and useful questions

- A confirmed meeting purpose and organization from the user, authorized G2X research access, approved public sources and shareable company examples. Community Edition supports manual agency/opportunity research and CRM; detail allowances vary. Lumen is separate. No confidential example or meeting note may be uploaded or shared without approval for that storage/audience. These are illustrative steps, not an executed meeting.

1. **Research the buyer's stated work** Open G2X Agencies at https://g2x.com/app/agencies for a federal buyer, read the agency Overview and relevant Contract Opps, and follow official sources. For a state/local buyer, start in G2X SLED and its original purchasing sources. Record the exact organization, stated need and source dates. Keep funding plans, opportunities and past awards separate; make no spending calculation from G2X records.

2. **Choose shareable evidence** Ask the user for approved examples that relate to the stated need. Describe the task, users, constraints and substantiated result. Separate public facts, supplied company evidence and hypotheses. Flag a different scale or operating environment. Do not fabricate customers, outcomes or permission to disclose.

3. **Prepare questions within the acquisition channel** Draft questions about operational constraints, useful market-research evidence and the next public process. Check whether a solicitation is active and use its stated contracting/question channel. FAR 15.201 is a federal reference; check applicable agency guidance/deviations and do not apply it universally to local buyers. Do not request confidential competitor information or infer an award promise.

4. **Optionally prepare a Lumen brief** With Lumen access and authority for the files, attach approved public background using https://g2x.com/docs/lumen/ask-lumen. Illustrative prompt: 'Prepare a short research-meeting brief from these official sources and shareable company examples. Cite every public fact, separate hypotheses, suggest questions that would change our account decision and identify unsupported claims. Do not infer funding, buyer intent or permission to share.' Review the originals yourself. Otherwise prepare the same brief manually.

5. **Retain the actual follow-up** Return the brief for human review. After the user supplies meeting outcomes and authorizes a record update, search CRM → Accounts for the existing organization. Record actual commitments, owner and agreed due date, preserve unrelated content, then reopen the record to verify. Keep interpretation separate from what the buyer said. No outreach, invite, quote or subscription without authority.

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Expected result: A concise source-linked buyer meeting brief, supported company evidence, consequential questions and a proposed next action. No invented meeting or contact.

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