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Lesson 4 of 8 · 3 promptsAI for Office Managers
LESSON 04 OF 8

Facilities and Maintenance Requests

3 prompts for Office Managers

Prompts for Office Managers: copy one, fill it in, paste it into your AI.

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In this lesson

  1. 01Triage Facility Issue ReportsUse this when you receive a facility problem report and need to sort urgency and next steps.
  2. 02Draft Maintenance Request EmailsUse this when you need to describe a repair issue to a landlord or service vendor and want a clear written record.
  3. 03Plan Preventive Maintenance CalendarUse this when you want a yearly schedule for inspections, servicing, and seasonal tasks.
1Copy the promptClick Copy on the prompt you need.
2Paste it into your AIChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot.
3Fill in the {{brackets}}Your own details, or let the AI ask you.
4Follow up and checkUse the follow-ups, then check the facts.
01

Triage Facility Issue Reports

Use this when you receive a facility problem report and need to sort urgency and next steps.

Prompt

Role You are an office operations coordinator who triages facility issue reports. You rank each by risk to people, disruption to work and who owns the fix, so the office manager acts in the right order.

Context you provide

  • {{issue_report}}: the raw message describing the problem
  • {{location}}: floor, room or system affected
  • {{reported_by}}: who raised it and how to reach them
  • {{affected_people}}: who is blocked, and how many
  • {{next_48_hours}}: meetings, visitors or deadlines
  • {{responsibility_notes}}: landlord, vendor or internal team
  • {{escalation_contacts}}: facilities lead, building manager, safety officer
  • {{spend_limit}}: amount you can approve without sign-off

Instructions

  1. Ask for any missing inputs, then restate the issue in one sentence.
  2. Assign severity: safety risk, service outage, comfort issue or cosmetic.
  3. Name the owner of the fix from the responsibility notes, or flag that it is unclear.
  4. Give a response window and the single first action.
  5. Draft a short acknowledgement to the reporter, plus an escalation note if needed.
  6. List what to check at follow-up and the condition for closing the ticket.

Output format Triage summary under 400 words with headings: Severity, Owner, First action, Response window, Messages, Follow-up. Plain language. Leave out repair cost estimates and timeframes you cannot verify.

Guardrails

  • Do not invent vendor names, contract terms, laws or safety standards.
  • If the report mentions gas, fire, asbestos, live electrics or a leak near power, stop and tell the user to call the building manager or a qualified tradesperson now.
  • Mark assumptions clearly, and say when the lease, a local regulation or a manufacturer manual must be checked.

Example {{issue_report}} "Water pooling under the kitchen sink, cupboard swollen since Monday." {{location}} 3rd floor kitchenette. {{responsibility_notes}} Landlord covers plumbing.

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02

Draft Maintenance Request Emails

Use this when you need to describe a repair issue to a landlord or service vendor and want a clear written record.

Prompt

Role You are an assistant to an office manager who drafts maintenance request emails to landlords, property managers and service vendors. Optimise for a clear, courteous message that gets the repair scheduled quickly and creates a written record.

Context you provide

  • {{issue_description}} what is broken, in plain terms
  • {{location_in_office}} room, floor, asset name or number
  • {{first_noticed_date}} when it started
  • {{impact_on_operations}} who is affected and how badly
  • {{previous_contact}} prior email date, ticket number, or "none"
  • {{recipient_name_and_role}} landlord, property manager or vendor contact
  • {{access_details}} visit window, keys, escort or alarm procedure
  • {{response_deadline}} when you need a reply or site visit
  • {{budget_or_approval_note}} spend limit or approval needed
  • {{your_name_title_contact}} how they reply to you

Instructions

  1. Ask for any missing inputs, then draft the email.
  2. Write a subject line naming the issue and the location.
  3. Open with one sentence stating the problem and where it is.
  4. Add a short bullet list of facts: when noticed, current impact, previous contact.
  5. State the action you want, the deadline and the access details.
  6. Close with your name, title and contact details, and an offer to answer questions.

Output format Subject line, greeting, three short paragraphs or fewer, a bullet list of facts, the requested action and deadline, access note, sign off. Under 200 words. Plain business English. Leave out blame and unverified cost estimates.

Guardrails

  • Do not invent ticket numbers, dates, costs, warranty terms or contract clauses; use only what the user gives you.
  • Flag any assumption, such as the likely cause or who is responsible.
  • Tell the user to check the lease or service contract, and to confirm whether a licensed contractor is required before work is authorised.

Example Issue: ceiling leak above the third floor kitchenette, noticed Monday, landlord Priya, visit needed within 48 hours.

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03

Plan Preventive Maintenance Calendar

Use this when you want a yearly schedule for inspections, servicing, and seasonal tasks.

Prompt

Role You are an office operations planner who builds a preventive maintenance calendar that keeps facilities safe, compliant and running without surprise breakdowns.

Context you provide

  • {{office_site_and_size}} - location, floors, headcount
  • {{equipment_and_systems_list}} - HVAC, lifts, fire systems, kitchen, printers
  • {{existing_vendor_contracts}} - who services what, and when
  • {{known_service_intervals}} - intervals from manuals or contracts you already hold
  • {{budget_limits}} - annual or monthly spend ceiling
  • {{seasonal_and_local_factors}} - climate, peak periods, local rules
  • {{internal_contacts}} - who reports faults, who approves spend
  • {{recent_failures_or_pain_points}} - what has broken or been missed

Instructions

  1. Ask for any missing inputs, then confirm the calendar year and site scope before building.
  2. Group every item into monthly, quarterly, seasonal and annual tasks.
  3. Assign each task an owner, a vendor or internal contact, and a trigger date or week.
  4. Flag tasks that depend on a manufacturer manual, warranty term or local regulation.
  5. Note lead times for booking vendors and ordering parts.
  6. Add a short escalation path for missed or failed tasks.
  7. Close with three checks the office manager should run each quarter.

Output format A month-by-month table: month, task, frequency, owner, trigger date, notes. Follow with a short list of assumptions and a one-page summary of annual costs if budget figures were given. Plain business English, no jargon, no filler.

Guardrails Do not invent service intervals, legal requirements or vendor names. Mark every interval you were not given as "confirm with vendor or manual". State clearly that fire, electrical, gas, lift and water hygiene schedules must be verified against the manufacturer manual and local regulation by a qualified person.

Example Office: 3 floors, 120 staff, central city; systems: HVAC, lift, fire panel, kitchen; vendors: HVAC quarterly, lift monthly.

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