Task prompt · Customer Support

Write an apology for an outage

by Agent Yard Team

A clear outage apology: what happened, who was affected, what's fixed and what changes next.

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Works with

ChatGPTClaudeGeminiGrokCopilotGrok Bot

Use cases

  • A clear outage apology: what happened, who was affected, what's fixed and what changes next.
  • Reuse it as often as you like: fill in the blanks (what; start and end time with timezone; who) with new details and copy again.
  • As one step of the Run customer support prompt pack.

How to use it

  1. Open chatgpt.com or claude.ai (or another AI listed here).
  2. Fill in the highlighted blanks ([WHAT], [START AND END TIME WITH TIMEZONE], [WHO]…) below, or edit them after pasting.
  3. Copy the prompt, paste it into the chat and send.

Fill in the blanks (optional)

Prompt

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Write a customer message about an outage.

What broke: [WHAT]
When: [START AND END TIME WITH TIMEZONE]
Who was affected: [WHO]
Cause (plain words): [CAUSE]
What we fixed: [FIX]
What we're changing so it doesn't repeat: [CHANGES]
Any credit or compensation: [DETAILS or none]

Be direct and human, take responsibility, no blame on vendors, no jargon. Give an email version and a short social post version.
One email a week

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