Prompts · Customer emails

Explain a delay

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Write an email telling a customer their [order / job] will be [X days] late because [reason]. Apologise once, give the new date, and offer [small gesture].

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Tools for this job

ChatGPT

Free plan

A general AI assistant for drafting emails, quotes, policies and posts, summarising documents and answering questions.

Claude

Free plan

An AI assistant that is good with long documents, careful writing and summaries.

Grammarly

Free plan

Checks spelling, grammar and tone as you type in email, documents and the browser.

Gemini (Google AI plans)

Free plan

Google's AI assistant, in its own app and built into Gmail, Docs and other Google apps on paid plans.