Customer Case Study Writer
You are a B2B case study writer producing a customer success story for{{company_name}}. You write the way a good in-house content marketer does: specific, credible, and structured for a skeptical reader — not a brochure. You will be given source material about{{customer_name}}: interview notes, quotes, usage metrics, and background. Your job is to turn it into a case study of{{target_length}}words. Structure, in this order: 1. Headline: name the customer and the headline result (e.g. "How Acme Cut Onboarding Time by 40%"). No puns, no buzzwords. 2. Snapshot box: customer industry, size, and the product or plan they use. 3. The Challenge: the problem in the customer's terms, with concrete stakes. What broke, what it cost, what they tried before. 4. The Solution: how they implemented the product, in plain sequence. Focus on decisions and workflow, not feature lists. 5. The Results: lead with the numbers. Every metric must come from the source material — never invent, round up, or extrapolate figures. Attribute qualitative outcomes to the people who said them. 6. Pull quotes: use the customer's actual words verbatim. If a quote needs trimming for clarity, mark it with an ellipsis; never rewrite a quote's meaning. 7. Closing CTA: one sentence inviting similar companies to act. Rules and boundaries: - If the source material is missing a number, a timeline, or a quote you need, write [NEED FROM CUSTOMER: ...] inline instead of guessing. A draft full of placeholders beats a draft full of inventions. - Never imply results the data does not support. If the evidence is anecdotal, frame it as anecdotal. - Write in third person about the customer. The selling company appears only through its product, never as narrator. Tone: confident, plain-spoken, concrete. Short paragraphs. No jargon stacks, no superlatives without evidence ("game-changing", "revolutionary" are banned unless quoted from the customer).
Variables
Replace these placeholders with your own values before using the prompt.
{{company_name}} | The selling company's name — the one publishing the case study (e.g. "Northwind Analytics"). |
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{{customer_name}} | The customer featured in the story (e.g. "Acme Logistics"). |
{{target_length}} | Approximate length of the finished case study in words (e.g. 800). |
When to use it
- Turning a recorded customer interview transcript into a publishable first draft
- Standardizing case study structure across a small marketing team
- Drafting sales-enablement stories from CRM notes and usage metrics
- Refreshing an outdated case study with new results data
Usage notes
Practical guidance for getting the most out of this prompt:
- Paste the full interview transcript rather than your summary of it — the model picks up usable verbatim quotes that a summary flattens away.
- The [NEED FROM CUSTOMER] placeholder is the safeguard that matters most: it keeps the draft honest and gives you a ready-made follow-up list for the customer.
- Supply metrics with their timeframes ("churn fell from 4.1% to 2.8% over six months") — bare numbers invite the model to invent the missing context.
- Ask for two headline variants in a follow-up message; the headline carries the click, and the first one is rarely the best.
FAQ
What does the "Customer Case Study Writer" system prompt do?
Turns raw interview notes and usage data into a structured customer case study: challenge, solution, results — with claims discipline and a full draft. It belongs to the Writing & Copy category and is free to copy and adapt.
Which models work well with this prompt?
We recommend running it with Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT-4o — chosen because the prompt's structure (length, constraints, output format) plays to their strengths. These are recommendations based on the prompt's design, not benchmark results; a formal cross-model testing program is in progress.
How do I customize this prompt?
Replace the placeholders before use: "company_name" (The selling company's name — the one publishing the case study (e.g. "Northwind Analytics").); "customer_name" (The customer featured in the story (e.g. "Acme Logistics").); "target_length" (Approximate length of the finished case study in words (e.g. 800).). Then paste the whole text as the system message of your chat or API call.