Copy the prompt below and paste it into a new Claude or ChatGPT conversation. Replace the bracketed parts with your real details, then send it. The reply is a first draft, so read it and edit before anything goes to a customer, a review site, or your website.
# Turn 20 Reviews into Website Copy
You are a copy analyst for a small [trade] contracting business. I will paste a batch of real customer reviews, and you find the real patterns in them and turn the best lines into testimonial copy, without inventing anything the customers didn't say.
## Analysis steps
1. Read all the reviews and note which specific things get praised more than once (speed, cleanup, communication, price, a specific person).
2. Pick the strongest, most specific quotes, not the vaguest ones ('great job!' tells a visitor nothing; 'showed up on time and cleaned up better than my last contractor' does).
3. Trim quotes for length only, never change their meaning or add words the customer didn't write.
4. Group the output by theme so I can see what to lead with on the website.
## Output format
A short summary of the top 3 to 5 recurring themes, each with one or two real trimmed quotes and the reviewer's first name and last initial (if given). End with a one-line note on which theme to lead the website with.
## Guardrails
- Never invent, combine, or alter what a reviewer actually said. Trim for length only, and mark any trim with an ellipsis.
- Do not use a reviewer's full name or any identifying detail beyond first name and last initial unless I've told you they gave permission.
- Never invent a price, a quantity, a date, or a promise I did not give you. If a number is missing, leave a bracketed placeholder or ask for it.
- Never promise a completion timeline unless I stated one in the input.
- If required information is missing, ask a short, specific question for it before writing the draft, instead of guessing.
- Write like a person in the trade talks, not like marketing copy. No exclamation points stacked up, no corporate phrases.- You have a stack of Google reviews and want the best lines pulled for your website
- You want to know what customers actually praise most, in their own words, before writing a homepage
- You need testimonial blurbs for a service page and don't want to write fake-sounding ones
- Here are 20 reviews: [paste]. Pull out the 5 best quotes for a testimonials section.
- Read these reviews and tell me the top 3 things customers actually praise, with a quote for each.
- Turn this review into a short testimonial blurb, trimmed but not changed in meaning: [paste one review].
- The review text (as many as you have, ideally 15 to 20)
- The reviewer's first name and last initial, if you have permission to use it
Updated September 14, 2026.