Customer Experience

Create a Customer-Retention Response

Draft a human-reviewed retention response from verified case facts, current policy, and explicitly approved offer boundaries.

Quick facts

Best for
Owners · Founder-operators · Sales leaders
Prompt type
Quality
Expected result
A human-reviewed retention response with an evidence table, approved-boundary check, clearly labeled draft, Unknowns, and an approval checklist.
Time saved
20-30 minutes per response draft
Required inputs
INCIDENT FACTS · CUSTOMER IMPACT · APPLICABLE POLICY · APPROVED RETENTION BOUNDARIES · CURRENT OWNERSHIP · CUSTOMER CONTACT FACTS · COMPANY TONE · RESPONSE REVIEWER
Works with
ChatGPT + Claude

What this prompt does

  • Creates an empathetic draft grounded in supplied facts, contact context, policy, and approved retention boundaries.
  • Keeps every unsupported option, promise, admission, and customer detail outside the customer-ready draft.

When to use

  • When an authorized team member has gathered the service issue facts and needs a consistent response draft for human review.

When not to use

  • Do not use it to determine eligibility, invent an offer, issue a credit, admit fault, contact a customer, or update an account or ticket.
  • Do not place unauthorized customer data or unnecessary personal, sensitive, or confidential data in an AI system.

The prompt

#CONTEXT:
Create a customer-retention response draft for named-human review. Use only the supplied verified facts, policy, approved retention boundaries, ownership, and contact facts. The output is not approval to make an offer or contact the customer.

#INPUTS:
- Verified incident facts and evidence references: [INCIDENT FACTS]
- Customer-reported and independently verified impact: [CUSTOMER IMPACT]
- Current applicable policy with source and effective date: [APPLICABLE POLICY]
- Retention options, eligibility rules, amounts, limits, and prohibited claims explicitly approved for consideration: [APPROVED RETENTION BOUNDARIES]
- Current support, account, financial, and escalation ownership: [CURRENT OWNERSHIP]
- Verified customer name, case reference, channel, consent, and contact history: [CUSTOMER CONTACT FACTS]
- Approved company tone and style constraints: [COMPANY TONE]
- Named human responsible for reviewing the exact draft: [RESPONSE REVIEWER]

#INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Separate verified facts, customer-reported statements, conflicts, and Unknown items. Do not place unsupported details in the response draft.
2. Do not invent, infer, or fabricate policy, eligibility, customer facts, outcomes, contact consent, offers, amounts, dates, fault, or liability.
3. Determine whether the supplied evidence matches an exact approved retention boundary. If any required fact, authority, or eligibility rule is missing or conflicting, mark the option Unknown and draft an internal escalation note instead of an offer.
4. Draft an empathetic acknowledgment of the verified experience without admitting fault or liability and without mirroring hostile language.
5. Include a retention option only when the supplied boundary explicitly supports it. Quote its approved terms exactly and label it pending named-human approval; do not enhance, combine, or imply other value.
6. Do not issue, apply, process, or promise a refund, reimbursement, credit, compensation, retention offer, discount, concession, exception, waiver, guarantee, or outcome.
7. Do not send, publish, email, message, call, contact, notify, schedule, cancel, route, assign, close, resolve, or update any customer, ticket, account, record, or system.
8. Use only authorized customer data and authorized support data in an approved AI workspace or approved AI vendor. Minimize the data and redact or omit unnecessary personal, sensitive, or confidential data. Follow company retention and vendor policy.
9. A named human owner must approve every refund, credit, or compensation decision before action. A named human owner and legal counsel must approve every admission of fault or liability before action. A named human owner must approve every retention offer, discount, or policy exception before action. A named human owner must approve every external communication, sending action, or customer contact before action. A named human owner must approve every ticket, system, account, or record change or mutation before action.

#RESPONSE FORMAT:
## Evidence, conflicts, and Unknowns
| Item | Status | Supplied evidence | Missing or conflicting evidence |
|---|---|---|---|

## Retention-boundary check
- Exact approved rule or Unknown
- Eligibility evidence or Unknown
- Option and terms permitted for consideration
- Named approver and prohibited variations

## DRAFT — HUMAN REVIEW REQUIRED
- Subject
- Customer acknowledgment
- Verified resolution context
- Approved option, only if supported
- Proposed next step without promise

## Human approval checklist
- Facts, policy, eligibility, and consent verified
- Exact option and terms separately approved
- No unsupported admission, promise, exception, or outcome
- External communication and all live changes separately approved

Input checklist

  • INCIDENT FACTS
  • CUSTOMER IMPACT
  • APPLICABLE POLICY
  • APPROVED RETENTION BOUNDARIES
  • CURRENT OWNERSHIP
  • CUSTOMER CONTACT FACTS
  • COMPANY TONE
  • RESPONSE REVIEWER

Example input

Fictional example — INCIDENT FACTS: Juniper Facilities' first onboarding session began 18 minutes late after a verified host-link issue. CUSTOMER IMPACT: Customer reports six attendees waited; attendance count remains Unknown. APPLICABLE POLICY: Customer care policy v5, effective July 1, 2026. APPROVED RETENTION BOUNDARIES: Operations Director may approve a replacement session after a verified delivery interruption; no refund, credit, discount, or fee waiver is approved. CURRENT OWNERSHIP: Maya owns response drafting; Omar approves service recovery; Finance owns credits. CUSTOMER CONTACT FACTS: Morgan opened case JS-104 by email and consented to email case updates; no phone consent supplied. COMPANY TONE: Calm, accountable, plain language. RESPONSE REVIEWER: Omar, Operations Director.

Expected output structure

  • A human-reviewed retention response with an evidence table, approved-boundary check, clearly labeled draft, Unknowns, and an approval checklist.

Customize this prompt

  • Supply a versioned offer matrix that separates eligibility evidence, draft authority, and final approval authority.
  • Remove contact details that are not necessary to draft the response and keep channel consent explicit.

Guardrails

  • Do not invent, infer, or fabricate policy, eligibility, customer facts, outcomes, consent, offers, amounts, fault, or liability; unsupported items remain Unknown and conflicts remain unresolved.
  • A named human owner must approve every refund, credit, or compensation decision before action.
  • A named human owner and legal counsel must approve every admission of fault or liability before action.
  • A named human owner must approve every retention offer, discount, or policy exception before action.
  • A named human owner must approve every external communication, sending action, or customer contact before action.
  • A named human owner must approve every ticket, system, account, or record change or mutation before action.
  • A named human owner must approve every payment or financial decision before action.
  • A named human owner must approve every deletion, closure, suspension, termination, revocation, deactivation, or archive action before action.
  • A named human owner must approve every promise or commitment before action.
  • Use only authorized customer data and authorized support data in an approved AI workspace or approved AI vendor; minimize data, redact or omit unnecessary personal, sensitive, or confidential data, and follow company retention and vendor policy.
  • The assistant must draft for review only and must not take customer, financial, legal, ticket, account, or system action.

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