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☕🤖Tutorial: Turn Reviews Into High-Converting Messaging (With AI)

PLUS: check all prompts and resources to build this system...

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The AI Break, Rui Sousa, and Luis Sousa
Feb 13, 2026
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Hey AI Breakers 👋

Most marketing doesn’t fail because your copy is “bad”. It fails because you’re guessing.

Guessing:

  • what customers actually care about

  • why they buy

  • what words they use

  • what they hate about alternatives

  • what finally pushed them to purchase

Meanwhile, the answers are sitting in plain sight:

✅ reviews
✅ Reddit threads
✅ competitors’ testimonials
✅ app store comments
✅ G2/Capterra
✅ YouTube comments
✅ support tickets / chat logs

Today, you’ll build an AI Customer Research Engine that turns raw customer language into:

✅ clear pain points
✅ emotional triggers
✅ objections + rebuttals
✅ messaging pillars
✅ positioning statement
✅ headline and angle library

Let’s build it 👇


🧠 How the Engine Works

This is the flow:

Reviews → Find Patterns → Why They Buy → Messaging → Positioning → Copy angles

You’re basically doing what elite marketers do… but in 45 minutes instead of 2 weeks.

All you need is input data.


🧾 Step 0 → Collect the Raw Inputs (10–30 minutes)

Aim for 30–100 snippets total.

Mix sources if you can:

For your product

  • reviews (Shopify, Trustpilot, Amazon, App Store)

  • testimonials

  • sales call notes

  • support tickets

  • live chat logs

For competitors

  • G2 / Capterra / TrustRadius

  • Product Hunt comments

  • Reddit threads

  • YouTube comments

  • “alternative to X” blog comments

Format tip: paste as a simple list with:

  • Source

  • Star rating (if relevant)

  • Review text

Example:

  • (G2, 2-star) “The UI is clunky and onboarding took forever…”

  • (Amazon, 5-star) “Saved me 2 hours a day because…”

Once you have your raw dump, we run prompts 👇


🔎 Prompt #1 → The Review Cleaner (turn messy text into usable data)

If you paste reviews directly, you’ll often get noise:

  • off-topic comments

  • vague praise

  • no clear “why”

This prompt cleans and structures everything into a dataset you can actually use.

✅ Run this first every time.

Prompt:

You are a customer research analyst.

I will paste raw reviews/comments.

Your task:
- Remove irrelevant or unusable lines (say why)
- Convert each remaining review into a structured row with:
1.sentiment (positive/neutral/negative)
2.customer type (guess if not explicit)
3.situation/context (what was happening in their life/business)
4.pain/problem they mention
5.desired outcome
6.feature or benefit referenced
7.emotional tone (frustrated, relieved, excited, etc.)
8.exact customer phrases worth saving (quotes)

Output as a clean table.

Here are the raw reviews:
[paste]

💡 Tip: If you have multiple sources, label them so you can compare (your product vs competitor).


🧠 Prompt #2 → The Pain Pattern Finder (find themes that actually matter)

Now we look for patterns. Not “people like it”.

We want:

  • repeated complaints

  • repeated outcomes

  • repeated switching triggers

  • hidden anxieties

This is where your messaging comes from.

✅ Use this to create your “research summary”.

Prompt:

You are a senior insights strategist.

Using this structured review table:
[paste output from Prompt #1]

Deliver:
- Top 10 pain points (ranked by frequency and intensity)
- Top 10 desired outcomes (ranked)
- Top 5 “switch triggers” (what made them change tools or finally act)
- Top 10 objections and fears (what almost stopped them)
- Top 10 moments of delight (what surprised them positively)
- The 10 most valuable customer phrases (verbatim) that should be used in marketing

Make it specific and written like a research debrief.

🎯 Prompt #3 → Jobs To Be Done Map (the real “why they buy”)

Most brands sell features. Customers “buy” products for a job.

This prompt turns your patterns/pains into a JTBD map you can build positioning around.

✅ This is where your offer becomes sharp.

Prompt:

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