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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.

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22 questions · ~10 min
Q01
Message

Welcome! This survey asks about your experience finding and trusting internal information over the last 30 days. Your participation is voluntary, and you may stop at any time. All responses are anonymous and will be reported in aggregate to improve our knowledge management practices. There are no right or wrong answers—we value your honest experience. Estimated time: 7–9 minutes.

Q02
Multiple Choice

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
Q03
Dropdown

In the last 30 days, how often did you encounter information that was outdated, inaccurate, or inconsistent?

  • Never
  • Rarely
  • Sometimes
  • Often
  • Very often
Q04
Ranking

Please rank the following potential improvements from most to least helpful for you.

  1. Better search relevance
  2. Fewer duplicate pages
  3. Clearer ownership and contacts
  4. Standardized templates
  5. Regular content reviews
  6. Faster site performance
Drag to rank
Q05
Opinion Scale

How likely are you to recommend our internal knowledge systems to a new teammate?

Scale: 010
Min:Not at all likelyMax:Extremely likely
Q06
Dropdown

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)
Q07
Message

Thank you for your time. Your feedback will directly inform how we improve the creation, organization, and maintenance of internal knowledge.

Q08
Multiple Choice

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)
Q09
Opinion Scale

How would you rate the accuracy of the internal content you used recently?

Scale: 17
Min:Very inaccurateMax:Very accurate
Q10
Multiple Choice

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
Q11
Long Text

Briefly describe the biggest blocker you faced in the last 30 days when finding or trusting internal information.

Q12
Dropdown

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
Q13
Dropdown

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
Q14
Opinion Scale

How would you rate the clarity and readability of the internal content you used recently?

Scale: 17
Min:Very unclearMax:Very clear
Q15
AI Interview

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.

Q16
Dropdown

In which region do you primarily work?

  • Americas
  • EMEA
  • APAC
  • Other / Multiple regions
Q17
Opinion Scale

Overall, how easy was it to find the right information in the last 30 days?

Scale: 17
Min:Extremely difficultMax:Extremely easy
Q18
Opinion Scale

How would you rate the completeness of the internal content you used recently?

Scale: 17
Min:Very incompleteMax:Very complete
Q19
Dropdown

What is your employment type?

  • Full-time
  • Part-time
  • Contractor
  • Intern
Q20
Dropdown

When you find internal content, how clear is it who owns and maintains it?

  • Always clear
  • Often clear
  • Sometimes clear
  • Rarely clear
  • Never clear
Q21
Dropdown

What is your current work arrangement?

  • On-site
  • Hybrid
  • Remote
Q22
Multiple Choice

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 Template

This 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

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