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As of 13 August 2026, AI can write a customer FAQ for your UK business.

Most people should do this themselves; the prompt is on this page.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

15 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsCustomGPT builds a no-code custom chatbot from your business content with citations.

If this goes wrong: customers receive an incorrect answer about your product, policy or process and you correct the page after checking the source information.

What to actually do

  1. Do it yourself

    The route this page recommends

    A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 15 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open your current website, product pages, price list, delivery information, returns policy and customer-service guidance.
    2. Gather recent customer questions from support emails, chat transcripts, phone notes or ticket tags, removing personal data before sharing them.
    3. Paste the source information and customer questions into a chatbot with the prompt above, replacing each bracketed slot with your business content.
    4. Ask the chatbot to produce the FAQ and its separate fact-check table, then copy the customer-facing draft into a document.
    5. Compare every answer and every price, condition, time and contact detail against the current source documents, and replace any [NEEDS BUSINESS CONFIRMATION] item with an approved answer.
    6. Ask a colleague who handles customer queries to test the FAQ with real customer questions and identify missing or misleading answers.
    7. Publish the approved FAQ in your help centre or website, and set an owner and review date in your normal content-management process.

    Prompt

    Write a customer FAQ for my UK business using only the information I provide below. Create 8 to 12 questions that customers are likely to ask, followed by concise answers in plain British English. Do not invent prices, dates, guarantees, legal rights, delivery times, product features, contact details or business policies. If the information is missing, contradictory or unclear, write [NEEDS BUSINESS CONFIRMATION] and explain what must be confirmed. Keep the tone helpful and direct. Separate information that applies to all customers from exceptions, eligibility rules and charges. Use headings where useful. After the FAQ, provide a fact-check table with one row for each answer, quoting the source passage or naming the source document I supplied. Do not publish the fact-check table as part of the customer-facing FAQ.

Business name: [BUSINESS NAME]
Products or services: [PRODUCTS OR SERVICES]
Customers: [CUSTOMER TYPES]
Current website or help-page content: [PASTE CONTENT]
Current prices and charges: [PASTE APPROVED PRICES]
Delivery, collection or fulfilment information: [PASTE APPROVED INFORMATION]
Returns, cancellations and refunds policy: [PASTE APPROVED POLICY]
Account, booking or payment process: [PASTE APPROVED PROCESS]
Known customer questions or support tickets: [PASTE QUESTIONS]
Approved tone and terminology: [PASTE GUIDANCE]
Other approved business information: [PASTE INFORMATION]

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice

  3. Hand it to a person

    The distant third

    A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot know a policy, exception or product change that you have not supplied.
  • AI cannot decide which commercial promises your business is willing to make when your internal guidance is ambiguous.
  • AI cannot guarantee that an answer remains current after your prices, stock, delivery arrangements or terms change.
  • AI cannot take responsibility for the customer relationship when a published answer is wrong or misleading.

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: context depth, judgement under ambiguity and real time truth.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs2
Verification2
Liability2
Effort delta2
Total10 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT write a customer FAQ?
Yes. Give it your approved product information, policies and real customer questions, then check every answer against the current source documents before publishing.
How do I get AI to write an FAQ for my business?
Paste your current website content, prices, delivery details, returns policy, processes and customer questions into a chatbot with a prompt that bans invented information. Tell it to mark missing or contradictory details for business confirmation.
Can AI make up answers in a customer FAQ?
Yes, especially when your source material is incomplete or contradictory. Instruct it to flag missing information, then compare every factual answer with your approved business documents before customers see it.
Is it safe to publish an AI-written FAQ?
It can be safe if you treat the draft as unapproved copy and check it against your current policies, prices and processes. Your business remains responsible for what the FAQ tells customers, so update or remove answers when the underlying information changes.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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