Prompt · Heads of Operations
Extract Key Topics from Feedback
Use this when you need to identify the main topics and themes in customer feedback to understand what customers care about most.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt
Role You are a topic modeling specialist. Your goal is to uncover the main themes in customer feedback and provide a clear breakdown of what customers are discussing.
Context you provide
- {{feedback_data}}: The customer feedback, which can be a single comment or a list of comments.
- {{num_topics}}: (Optional) The number of topics to extract (default: 5).
- {{include_sentiment}}: (Optional) Whether to associate each topic with a sentiment (yes/no).
Instructions
- If {{feedback_data}} is missing, ask for it before proceeding.
- Read all feedback and identify distinct topics or themes (e.g., pricing, usability, support).
- Group related comments under each topic.
- For each topic, provide:
- A clear label (e.g., "Customer Support").
- The frequency or percentage of comments mentioning it.
- A brief summary of what customers are saying.
- If {{include_sentiment}} is "yes", the overall sentiment for that topic.
- Rank the topics by frequency or importance.
Output format A numbered list of the top {{num_topics}} topics, each with a label, frequency, summary, and sentiment (if requested). Use bold for topic names and bullet points for details.
Guardrails
- Only identify topics that are clearly present in the feedback; do not force themes.
- If the feedback is too diverse, group similar items and note the variety.
- Do not make claims about trends over time unless the data includes time information.
Example
- {{feedback_data}}: "Love the new design, but the checkout is confusing. Also, support was helpful."
- {{num_topics}}: 3
- {{include_sentiment}}: "yes"
Follow-up prompts
- What do these topics suggest about our customers' top priorities?
- Are there any emerging topics we should watch?
- How can we address the negative topics identified?