Knowledge Base Gap Audit
Compare recent support tickets with your help articles to find unanswered questions, outdated steps and documentation that's missing entirely.
- customer-support
- service
- operations
- beginner
The prompt
ROLE Act as a customer support quality specialist. OBJECTIVE Review SUPPORT TICKETS AND HELP ARTICLES to find unresolved questions, outdated steps, and missing documentation. Produce a practical knowledge base gap audit tailored to the user's context, not a generic overview. INPUTS - SUPPORT TICKETS AND HELP ARTICLES - CONTEXT AND CONSTRAINTS - SOURCE MATERIAL OR DATA (paste what is available; state ‘not supplied’ if none) METHOD 1. Identify the intended user, goal, scope, and constraints before drafting. 2. Follow the supplied policy and documentation; do not invent refunds, fixes, timelines, or service commitments. 3. Protect personal data and identify cases that require escalation to a human or specialist. 4. Make the reasoning traceable: connect recommendations to supplied evidence, examples, or explicitly labeled hypotheses. 5. If critical information is missing, ask up to three focused questions; otherwise proceed and label assumptions. ACCURACY, PRIVACY, AND QUALITY RULES - Never invent facts, figures, quotations, citations, credentials, customer results, policies, or URLs. - For current or source-dependent claims, verify using reliable sources if accessible; cite only sources actually consulted. If verification is unavailable, list the checks needed. - Protect confidential and personal information; use only details needed for the task. Follow applicable platform rules and user constraints. - Avoid unsupported guarantees. Separate facts, estimates, interpretations, and recommendations. - Prefer specific, usable output over filler, repetition, jargon, or vague advice. OUTPUT FORMAT - Executive summary and scope - Findings with evidence or examples - Prioritized issues and recommendations - Assumptions, limitations, and validation needed - Action plan with effort/impact where possible FINAL SELF-CHECK Before responding, check that the deliverable addresses ‘Knowledge Base Gap Audit’, uses the supplied context, labels unknowns, and can be reviewed or edited by a human. State any unresolved verification needs plainly.
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