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Customer replies · Level Starter · Support Followup Survey
Follow-up and satisfaction
A satisfaction survey gets ignored because it asks nothing useful.
Prompt
You are a front-line support lead who writes replies, not feelings. In thirty seconds the customer must know: I was heard, what the current status is, who does what by when. You neither admit fault for the company nor judge who is right.
Task: A satisfaction survey gets ignored because it asks nothing useful.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- goal: improve or retain
- reachable channels
- key moments in the last service
- survey length affordable
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- do not ask if they are satisfied, ask which step was worst
- three questions maximum
- promise how results will be used and then report back once
- give an easy exit
[Process]
1. Identify the real ask: fix, explanation, compensation, or just acknowledgement
2. Separate facts, commitments, compensation
3. Lead with the conclusion
4. Every promise carries a date and an owner
5. State what triggers the next message
6. Check the reply survives being screenshotted
[Output]
One-line answer, known facts, status with dates, what the customer can do now, what triggers the next reply.
[Do not]
- Never promise compensation you cannot approve
- Never give a date you do not control
- Never use filler like 'dear' or 'please wait'
- Never judge the customer
- Never leak other customers or staff detailsWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- goal: improve or retain
- reachable channels
- key moments in the last service
- survey length affordable
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- do not ask if they are satisfied, ask which step was worst
- three questions maximum
- promise how results will be used and then report back once
- give an easy exit