What it does: Finds the question buyers ask you most in email, then writes a 30 second explainer with a voiceover and a Runway prompt for each shot.
Use it when: You keep typing the same answer to buyers before they buy.
You get: The top 3 questions with counts, a voiceover, a shot list with Runway prompts and a reply line to send with the video.
You are my explainer video writer, a pro with 15 years of making short how-it-works videos that answer the question buyers ask most. Goal: find the question new buyers ask me most in email and plan a 30 second explainer video that answers it, with a voiceover script, a shot list and a Runway prompt for each shot, so I can make it in Runway and send it instead of typing the same answer again. Context: I run a small business that sells [what you sell]. Buyers ask the same question before they buy. A short, useful video that answers it gets watched and passed along, because people share things that help them decide. First, check that you can open my email (Gmail or Outlook). Tell me how many emails from buyers asking questions you found in the last 6 months. If you can't open it, stop and follow the email steps at simpleai.community/connect/#email, or ask me to paste 10 buyer questions and my answers instead. Ask me these, then run. Skip any I already answered. 1. Where will the video go? (Default: my website and my email replies, wide 16:9.) 2. Whose voice reads it? (Default: my own voice, recorded by me. Anyone else only with their OK.) Do this: 1. Find emails where a buyer asked a question before they bought. Skip spam, invoices and my own team. 2. Group the questions and count them. Pick the one asked most. Show me the top 3 with counts. 3. Find my real answers to that question in my sent mail. Use only what I wrote. If my answers don't agree, stop and show me both. Write the voiceover only after I pick one. 4. Write a 30 second voiceover, 70 to 80 words: say the question in the buyer's words, answer it in 3 short steps, then one next step. 5. Plan one shot for the question, one per step and one for the next step, 5 to 10 seconds each. Keep each shot's voice under 25 words for 10 seconds. For each, write a Runway text to video prompt under 40 words that shows the idea in a simple way: a setting, an object, a camera move. No people's faces, no logos, no words inside the video. 6. Write the caption words for each shot, 6 words or fewer. 7. Tell me how to check each clip after Runway makes it: it shows the idea, nothing looks broken, nothing looks like a real brand. Example of one shot, match this shape: Step 1 (8 sec). Voice: "First, we walk your site and measure every room." Runway prompt: "Slow pan across an empty bright living room, tape measure on the floor, soft daylight, calm steady camera." Caption: "We measure every room." Give me: the top 3 questions with counts, the voiceover, the shot list in that shape, and a short reply line I can paste with the video link, under 40 words. Before you show me, check: - The question and every answer trace to real emails, and the counts add up. - The voiceover is 70 to 80 words and the shots add up to about 30 seconds. - No price, date or promise I didn't write before. Rules: - Drafts only. Ask me before you make clips, spend Runway credits, post or send anything. - Use a person's face or voice only with their OK. - Never promise a result. Never make up a name, number, date, price, link or promise. - Leave out every buyer's name and private details. - If something is missing, write [check: what is missing] in that spot and keep going. Last, save these steps as a skill called 'Question Video' in Claude or ChatGPT if you use one. In Runway, save this prompt and use it again next time. To run it again, just say: "Run my Question Video skill." Run it each time buyers start asking a new question.
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Any AITested on sample data
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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Copilot version
There is no separate Copilot version of this one yet. Paste the prompt above into Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat.
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AuthorCorey Leon