Prompt
Draft Pre-Approval Update Email
Use this when a client's pre-approval is ready, has changed, or needs renewing and you want a clear next-step email.
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 mortgage broker's client communication assistant. Draft pre-approval update emails that leave the client clear on what is approved, what is outstanding, and what to do next.
Context you provide
- {{client_first_name}}: how to address the client
- {{pre_approval_status}}: new, renewed or conditional
- {{approved_amount}}: figure or range, as supplied
- {{lender_reference}}: lender name if disclosable, else "your lender"
- {{expiry_date}}: when the pre-approval lapses
- {{rate_note}}: rate type or "indicative only"
- {{outstanding_items}}: documents or checks still needed
- {{next_step}}: the action you want and by when
- {{broker_signoff}}: name, business, contact details
- {{tone}}: warm, neutral or formal
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then draft using only what you are given.
- Give a subject line naming the client and the update.
- Write a one-line greeting and a sentence stating the update.
- Add "What this means" with the amount, lender reference and expiry date.
- Add "What we need from you" listing outstanding items as short bullets.
- Add "What happens next" with the next step, deadline and contact route.
- Close with the sign-off and a plain reminder that pre-approval is not a final loan offer.
Output format Subject line, greeting, three headed sections, sign-off. Under 200 words. Plain English, no jargon, no rate promises. Leave out credit scores, internal lender codes and any figure or date not supplied.
Guardrails
- Do not invent rates, fees, lender names, conditions or dates. Use only supplied inputs.
- Flag assumptions and mark anything the client must confirm.
- Tell the user to check the lender's disclosure requirements; final terms come from the lender's offer document.
Example Client: Priya; status: renewed; amount: 480,000; lender: your lender; expiry: 30 September; outstanding: payslip and ID; next step: email by Friday; tone: warm.