Discovery Framework Sample Templates
Discovery Framework Sample Templates is a Setup area providing pre-built templates for the Salesforce Discovery Framework, which is used to create guided assessment forms and questionnaires.
Definition
Discovery Framework Sample Templates is a Setup area providing pre-built templates for the Salesforce Discovery Framework, which is used to create guided assessment forms and questionnaires. These templates help organizations quickly implement discovery processes for sales qualification, needs assessments, and customer onboarding.
In plain English
“Here's a simple way to think about it: Discovery Framework Sample Templates are pre-built versions of common assessment forms - BANT qualification, security questionnaires, customer onboarding flows. They give teams a starting point to clone and customize, not a finished product.”
Worked example
The sales enablement team at Forge Dynamics installs Discovery Framework Sample Templates to jumpstart their qualification process. They use the "Enterprise Needs Assessment" template as a starting point, customizing the questions and scoring logic to match their sales methodology. Reps now follow a guided questionnaire during discovery calls that automatically scores leads.
Why Discovery Framework Sample Templates give teams a starting point instead of a blank page
The Discovery Framework lets sales and onboarding teams build guided assessments - branching forms that ask the right next question based on previous answers. The templates Salesforce ships in this Setup area are pre-built versions of common assessment types: BANT qualification, security questionnaires, customer onboarding flows. They exist so a team starting from scratch can clone something close to their need rather than designing the entire form from zero.
Templates earn their place when teams adopt them as scaffolding, not as finished products. A BANT template is a fine starting structure for a B2B sales team, but the questions, branching, and scoring should reflect that team's actual qualification criteria - not the generic Salesforce sample. Treat the sample templates as documentation of what a finished assessment looks like, clone the closest one, then make it yours.
How organizations use Discovery Framework Sample Templates
Sales team cloned the BANT template, customized for their qualification criteria, and went live in a week - versus the multi-month project the from-scratch approach had been.
Customer success uses the customer-onboarding sample as the foundation for their post-sale playbook; the template's structure was 70% applicable as-is.
Sales engineering team built security-questionnaire automation starting from the sample - the template's flow logic accelerated development significantly.
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