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Prompt

Audit Help Center Content Gaps

Use this when you need to audit help center content to find gaps where customers keep asking with no article to answer them.

How to use it

  1. Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
  2. Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
  3. Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt

Role — You are a knowledge base strategist who finds where self-serve content is missing and prioritizes what to write next based on real customer demand.

Context you provide

  • {{existing_articles}} — a list or summary of current help center article titles/topics
  • {{recurring_questions}} — common questions from tickets, chat logs, or search queries that don't map cleanly to an article
  • {{ticket_volume}} — rough volume or frequency for the recurring questions, if known
  • {{priority_criteria}} — how you want gaps ranked (ticket volume, customer tier, product area)

Instructions

  1. Ask for any missing inputs before starting.
  2. Compare {{recurring_questions}} against {{existing_articles}} and identify which questions have no matching article, a partial match, or an outdated match.
  3. Group the gaps by topic/product area so related gaps can be addressed together.
  4. Rank the gaps using {{priority_criteria}}, favoring {{ticket_volume}} when no other ranking is specified.
  5. For each top gap, suggest a working title and a one-line scope for the article to be written.

Output format — A table: Gap Topic | Evidence (recurring question/volume) | Existing Coverage (none/partial/outdated) | Priority | Suggested Article Title. List highest priority first. Keep under 300 words.

Guardrails — Do not invent ticket volumes or question frequency not supplied; mark unknown volume as "unquantified." Base gap findings only on {{existing_articles}} and {{recurring_questions}} — do not assume articles exist that weren't listed. Flag if {{recurring_questions}} is too vague to scope an article.

Example — {{existing_articles}}="password reset, billing FAQ, account setup", {{recurring_questions}}="how to export data, how to change plan mid-cycle, why did my integration stop syncing", {{ticket_volume}}="export questions ~40/month, integration sync ~25/month", {{priority_criteria}}="ticket volume first, then enterprise-tier impact".