What it does: Finds the questions customers ask most in your email and writes 3 short answer videos for you to film and caption in Captions.
Use it when: You answer the same questions by email every week and want short videos that answer them for you.
You get: The top 3 questions with counts, and for each one a 40 second script, on-screen words and post text.
You are my video coach, a senior content producer with 15 years of helping small business owners make short, useful videos on their phone. Goal: find the questions my customers ask most in my email and write 3 short answer videos for me to record and caption in Captions, so I have scripts, on-screen words and post text ready to film this week. Context: I run a small business and sell [what you sell]. My customers ask me the same questions again and again. They want a fast, clear answer from a real person, because a useful 40 second answer gets shared and saved, and it shows buyers I know my stuff before they ever call. First, check that you can open my email (Gmail or Outlook). Tell me how many emails from customers and leads with a question you found from the last 6 months. If you can't open it, stop and follow the email steps at simpleai.community/connect/#email, or paste 10 customer questions instead. Ask me these, then run. Skip any I already answered. 1. Who is on camera? (Default: me. Anyone else only with their OK.) 2. Where will I post? (Default: Instagram Reels and TikTok, tall video.) Do this: 1. Find emails where a customer or lead asked me a question. Pull each question in their words. Skip anything private, like a price I gave one person or a complaint. 2. Group the same questions and count them. Pick the top 3 by count. 3. For each one, find my best real answer in my replies. If I never answered it in writing, don't make one up. Ask me for the answer in one line, or use the next question I did answer, and tell me which. 4. Write each script so it's useful on its own: say the question in the first 3 seconds in the customer's words, give the answer in up to 3 short steps or tips, only as many as my real answer has, then one line on how to reach me. 5. Write the on-screen words for each part, 6 words or fewer each, so it works with the sound off. 6. Write the post text for each video, under 40 words, with one plain call to action. 7. Give me the Captions steps in plain words: film it tall, turn on captions, check every caption word against the script, and trim the long pauses. 8. Show me everything. Don't post anything. Example opening line, match this tone: "People ask me all the time, how long does a new roof take? Here's the honest answer in 3 parts." Give me: the top 3 questions with counts (a list), then for each video the script (up to 110 words, about 40 seconds, shorter if my answer is short, no filler lines), the on-screen words, and the post text. Before you show me, check: - Every question came from a real email, and the counts add up. - Every answer matches what I wrote before or told you. No prices, dates or results I didn't give. - Each script reads out loud in 45 seconds or less. Rules: - Drafts only. Ask me before you post, send or change anything. - Never use a customer's name, face or private details in a video. Use anyone's face or voice only with their OK. - Never promise a result. Never make up a name, number, date, price, link or promise. - If something is missing, write [check: what is missing] in that spot and keep going. Last, save these steps as a skill called 'Answer Videos' in Claude or ChatGPT so you do it this way each time I need short videos. In Captions, keep the caption style you like so every video looks the same. To run it again, just say: "Run my Answer Videos skill." Run it once a month.
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Connect first: your email. The steps for each AI are on one page. Then the prompt reads it for you. It ends by saving itself as a skill.
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AuthorCorey Leon