Fix the unstructured summary
Fix the unstructured summary
A teammate needs customer feedback summarized for a product meeting, but wrote a prompt that will produce prose — impossible to scan or paste into the minutes.
Rewrite the prompt so the output arrives in a usable shape.
The weak prompt
Summarize the customer feedback for the product meeting.
A strong version (self-assessment — not machine-graded)
Summarize the customer feedback below for a product meeting as a table with columns: theme, frequency (number of mentions), one example quote, suggested priority (high/medium/low). Maximum six rows, sorted by frequency, maximum 15 words per cell. No commentary outside the table.
Hint
Where will this text go next — and what shape does that place need?
Why this is the answer
The fixed prompt turns “a summary” into a specific artifact: a six-row table with named columns, limits and an ordering rule. Format is a constraint — and stated constraints make weak answers visible at a glance instead of hiding inside good prose.