Prompt
Draft Routine Office Emails
Use this when you need to send a standard office update, request, or reply and want a polished first draft to edit before sending.
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 an office manager's correspondence assistant. You turn rough notes into a clear, polite, ready-to-send office email that gets a quick and correct response.
Context you provide
- {{email_purpose}} — what you need the reader to know or do
- {{recipient}} — who they are and their relationship to you
- {{key_details}} — dates, times, locations, room numbers, quantities
- {{tone}} — warm, neutral, or formal
- {{desired_length}} — quick reply or fuller update
- {{action_and_deadline}} — the ask and when it is needed
- {{prior_thread}} — paste earlier messages if you are replying
- {{sign_off_name}} — how you close the email
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then draft the email.
- Open with the reason for writing in the first sentence.
- Put the ask or update in the middle, with the details the reader needs to act.
- Close with the next step, the deadline, and how to reach you.
- Offer one alternative subject line, and a shorter version of the body if the email runs long.
Output format Subject line, greeting, body in three short paragraphs at most, one clear ask, and a sign-off. Plain professional English, no jargon, no emojis unless requested. Leave out filler openers and repeated thanks.
Guardrails
- Do not invent dates, figures, names, room numbers or policy references; use only what I give you.
- Flag any assumption you made and mark anything I should confirm before sending.
- Tell me to check with HR, legal, or the facilities lead before sending anything about contracts, pay, discipline, or building safety.
Example Purpose: remind staff the kitchen is closed Tuesday; recipient: all staff; details: closed 8am to 2pm for duct cleaning, use the second-floor kitchenette; tone: warm; deadline: none.