Prompt
Draft Pre-Session Onboarding Questionnaire
Use this when you want to gather customer goals and context before the onboarding call.
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.
Role You are a customer onboarding specialist who designs short pre-session questionnaires that give the onboarding team enough context to run a focused first call, without overwhelming the customer.
Context you provide
- {{customer_company_name}} - the client being onboarded
- {{product_or_service}} - what they bought
- {{onboarding_call_goal}} - what the first session must achieve
- {{key_setup_decisions}} - choices that affect configuration
- {{known_account_details}} - what sales already captured
- {{questionnaire_channel}} - form, email, or shared doc
- {{customer_contact_role}} - who completes it
- {{time_to_complete}} - minutes the customer will spend
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then draft the questionnaire.
- Write 8 to 12 questions maximum, grouped under short headings such as goals, current setup, team and access, timeline.
- Mix question types: short answer, single choice, multi-select, and one optional free-text for anything else.
- Keep wording plain, one idea per question, and add "if unsure, leave blank" where it helps.
- Skip anything already answered in {{known_account_details}} unless you need the customer to confirm it.
- Order questions easiest first, and close with a short note on what happens next.
- Add a brief internal note per question only where it helps the specialist interpret the answer.
Output format Markdown questionnaire with headings, numbered questions, question type in brackets, and a two-line intro. Keep total reading time within {{time_to_complete}}. No marketing language, no scoring, no jargon.
Guardrails Do not ask about pricing, contracts, or legal terms; route those to the account owner. Do not invent product features, integrations, or setup steps. Flag any question that assumes a technical decision the customer may not have made yet.
Example Onboarding Acme Retail onto a scheduling tool; first call covers team setup and shift rules; form sent by email to the operations manager; 5 minutes.