Internal Knowledge Findability & Trust Audit
Assesses how employees find, evaluate, and trust internal knowledge resources—measuring findability, content quality, ownership clarity, and tool effectiveness to prioritize knowledge management improvements.
Sample questions
A preview of what’s in the template. Every question is editable before you launch.
In the last 30 days, how often did you look up internal information to do your work?
- Several times a day
- About once a day
- A few times a week
- About once a week
- Less than weekly
- Not in the last 30 days
In the last 30 days, how often did you encounter information that was outdated, inaccurate, or inconsistent?
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Very often
Please rank the following potential improvements from most to least helpful for you.
- Better search relevance
- Fewer duplicate pages
- Clearer ownership and contacts
- Standardized templates
- Regular content reviews
- Faster site performance
How likely are you to recommend our internal knowledge systems to a new teammate?
Which department or function best describes your role?
- Engineering
- Product
- Design
- Data / Analytics
- Sales
- Marketing
- Customer Support
- Operations
- HR / People
- Finance
- Legal
- Other (please specify)
Thank you for your time. Your feedback will directly inform how we improve the creation, organization, and maintenance of internal knowledge.
Where do you usually start when searching for internal information? (Select the one you use most often.)
- Company wiki / knowledge base
- Shared drive or cloud folders
- Chat channels (e.g., Slack, Teams)
- Project management tool
- Email archives
- Ask a colleague directly
- Internal search portal
- Team or product docs
- Other (please specify)
How would you rate the accuracy of the internal content you used recently?
Which of the following search behaviors do you use regularly? (Select all that apply.)
- Use filters (type, space, date)
- Search operators (quotes, AND/OR)
- Browse by team or project space
- Saved searches or bookmarks
- Rely on shared links from others
- I don't use any of these
Briefly describe the biggest blocker you faced in the last 30 days when finding or trusting internal information.
How long have you been with the company?
- Less than 3 months
- 3–12 months
- 1–2 years
- 3–5 years
- More than 5 years
On average, how long does it take you to find the internal information you need?
- Less than 2 minutes
- 2–5 minutes
- 6–10 minutes
- 11–20 minutes
- 21–30 minutes
- More than 30 minutes
- I usually can't find what I need
How would you rate the clarity and readability of the internal content you used recently?
Based on your responses in this survey, please share any additional thoughts or feelings about how internal knowledge is managed at our organization. An AI moderator may ask a brief follow-up question.
In which region do you primarily work?
- Americas
- EMEA
- APAC
- Other / Multiple regions
Overall, how easy was it to find the right information in the last 30 days?
How would you rate the completeness of the internal content you used recently?
What is your employment type?
- Full-time
- Part-time
- Contractor
- Intern
When you find internal content, how clear is it who owns and maintains it?
- Always clear
- Often clear
- Sometimes clear
- Rarely clear
- Never clear
What is your current work arrangement?
- On-site
- Hybrid
- Remote
When content ownership is unclear, what do you most often do?
- Ask in a team channel or chat
- Create duplicate content
- Abandon or postpone the task
- Open a ticket or request
- Edit the page and move on
- Other (please specify)
What’s included
AI follow-ups
Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.
Attention checks
Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.
AI-drafted copy
Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.
Auto report
Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.
How it compares
We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.
Why this template
- Includes an adaptive AI follow-up interview that asks respondents to elaborate on their own answers, not just fixed close-ended questions
- Pairs quantitative ratings (accuracy, clarity, completeness, ease of finding information) with an open-text question on the biggest blocker faced, giving both scores and context
- Separates ownership clarity from content quality and findability, and asks what employees actually do when ownership is unclear—useful for prioritizing fixes
- Segments results by department, tenure, region, employment type, and work arrangement, plus a ranking question on which improvements matter most
QuestionPro
Company - Knowledge Management Survey TemplateThis is a standard knowledge management survey template covering how employees access and rate internal knowledge resources, built on QuestionPro's established survey platform. It appears to be a static, ready-to-field questionnaire rather than one that adapts based on individual answers. Good for benchmarking basic KM satisfaction but likely lighter on root-cause diagnosis of ownership and blockers.
What it does well
- Backed by an established, full-featured survey platform with broad question-type support
- Template is pre-built and likely quick to deploy for a standard KM satisfaction pulse
- Part of a large template library, so it can be easily paired with other HR/ops surveys
Where it falls short
- No adaptive AI follow-up interview to probe deeper into low scores or vague answers
- No mention of automated per-response quality scoring or transparent AI prompts
- As a fixed-question template, it likely can't dynamically explore why ownership is unclear or what blockers respondents actually hit
Frequently asked questions
What questions are in the “Internal Knowledge Findability & Trust Audit” template?
The template includes 22 ready-to-use questions, starting with: “Welcome! This survey asks about your experience finding and trusting internal information over the last 30 days. Your p…” · “In the last 30 days, how often did you look up internal information to do your work?” · “In the last 30 days, how often did you encounter information that was outdated, inaccurate, or inconsistent?”. The full set is previewed above, and every question is editable.
How long does this survey take to complete?
Respondents typically finish the 22 questions in about 10 minutes.
Can I customize this template?
Yes — every question, answer option, and the ordering is editable before you launch. You can add or remove questions, or ask the AI editor to rework the survey around your research goal.
Is this template free to use?
Yes. Open it in the editor and start customizing right away — no account required to try it, and the free plan covers launching your survey.
Ready to launch?
Open this template in the editor. Every part is yours to change before the first respondent sees it.
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