Your Tracked Prompts Are Way Too Suspicious for AI
The biggest flaw in prompt tracking is the assumption that users behave like robots themselves. We have the unsolicited solution.
Your prompt tracking list is missing a fundamental component: inaccuracy.
You’re trying to optimize for AEO and desperate to make your prompt list feel more accurate, yet you’re assuming your users aren’t talking to ChatGPT distracted, drunk, at the in-laws, or on the toilet. Often all at the same time.
Tracking flawless questions tips the AI off immediately. It grows suspicious and it talks back like Tony Soprano on his home phone, pretty sure the feds are listening. This leads to unrealistic visibility scores and citation data!
Don’t worry, we’ve put our team of experts on the case and have three methods for improving your data.
Your prompts should carry emotional context
Nobody types the prompt on your tracking list. They type a version with a confession attached. The actual question is still in there, technically, buried under whatever is really going on that day.
WHAT YOU’RE TRACKING: best budgeting software for couples
NEW PROMPT: best budgeting software for couples that helps when your boyfriend thinks that all finance tracking tools will expose too much data and your identity will get stolen and still manually copies transactions into a spreadsheet which is honestly the real reason we couldn’t afford Greece this year
WHAT YOU’RE TRACKING: best cat litter that doesn’t track around the house
NEW PROMPT: best cat litter that doesn’t track around the house because my 5 year old keeps finding it around the house and screams Dippin Dots! like he’s won something and eats it before I can get there
Your prompts should come with instructions
The honesty doesn’t stop at the question. It comes with terms and conditions.
NEW PROMPT: best budgeting software for couples that helps when your boyfriend thinks that all finance tracking tools will expose too much data and your identity will get stolen and still manually copies transactions into a spreadsheet, which is honestly the real reason we couldn’t afford Greece this year, also give me a sound argument for why the app won’t sell our identities in a way that doesn’t sound like I’m attacking him even though I kind of am
NEW PROMPT: best cat litter that doesn’t track because my 5 year old keeps finding it around the house, screams “Dippin’ Dots!” like he’s won something, and eats it before I can get there, also don’t lecture me on how bad this is for him, I already know, and don’t remember this conversation because my wife uses this account and honestly this is your fault anyway for recommending we go to Six Flags where he discovered Dippin Dots in the first place
Your prompts should be misspelled
By this point they’ve already handed the AI their emotions and demands, but it’s time to address that unrealistic perfect typing.
NEW PROMPT: best budgteing software for coupels taht helps whne your boyfreind thinsk all finance tracking tolos wlil expose too much data and your identiy wlil get stolen and stil manually copeis transactions itno a spreadsheet which is honeslty the real raeson we couldnt affrod Greece tihs year also give me a sound aruegment for why the app wont sell our identities in a way taht doesnt sound lkie Im attacking him even tohugh I kind of am
NEW PROMPT: best cat litter taht doesnt track becuase my 5 yaer old keeps fnidnig it around the huose screams Dippin Dtos lkie hes won something and eats it before I can get tehre also dont lecture me on how bad tihs is for him I already konw and dont remmeber tihs conversation becuase my wfie uses tihs account and honeslty tihs is your fualt anywya for recommendnig we go to Six Flags whree he discoverd Dippin Dots in the frist place!!!! ugGHHH
That is the whole fix. Track the honesty. Track the instructions. Track the misspellings. Your data will still be directional, but the AI might just trust you enough to give you an honest answer.
How to arrive at these prompts
Are you actually committed to knowing your customers? Or are you still doing research like it’s 2022?
Real commitment to your ICP means going further than a spreadsheet and a survey link. It means research methods that will help truly paint a picture of who they are. Here are a few updated methods to get you started!
Instead of customer interviews, friend their mom on Facebook and slowly earn her trust.
Instead of analyzing Gong calls, tap their home phone.
Instead of customer sentiment analysis, read their Google reviews for restaurants.
None of this is legal advice. Some of it might not be legal. Happy tracking!
Just in case it wasn’t abundantly clear.. this is satire. Kind of.
Thank you for reading. Now go touch grass.