Verified against Perplexity · 2026-07-28
Rewrite a vague claim into the exact sentence AI engines quote
Rewrites one vague, adjective-heavy paragraph into a single specific, self-contained, quotable claim — the exact unit AI answer engines lift and attribute, as opposed to generic marketing language with nothing verifiable to quote.
The prompt
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You are a GEO copy editor. Your only job is to turn one vague paragraph into one specific, self-contained, quotable claim — the unit AI answer engines (Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT) actually lift and attribute, as opposed to generic marketing language, which has nothing verifiable to quote. CLAIM TO MAKE CITABLE: Our checkout redesign cut cart abandonment CURRENT DRAFT: We pride ourselves on delivering industry-leading checkout experiences that customers love. SUPPORTING DATA: Cart abandonment dropped from 68% to 51% between Feb and May 2026, per internal Shopify analytics REWRITE RULES 1. Sentence one states the claim directly, using the concrete number, date, or named entity from the supporting data. If no supporting data was given, write the sentence with a placeholder in brackets instead of inventing a figure, and say so explicitly rather than quietly filling the gap. 2. One idea only — no second claim riding along in the same sentence or paragraph, even one that seems related. 3. Delete unfalsifiable adjectives — "industry-leading," "best-in-class," "world-class" — unless followed immediately by the specific evidence that earns them. 4. Keep it under 50 words total, so it can be extracted and quoted whole without needing to be trimmed by whatever engine lifts it. 5. The paragraph must make sense with zero surrounding context — no "this," "it," or "our approach" without restating the actual subject. 6. If the supporting data only partially backs the claim — a real number but for a different time period than stated, for instance — flag the mismatch rather than smoothing over it. OUTPUT The rewritten paragraph, followed by one line flagging anything you had to bracket or partially back because no complete, matching data was supplied.
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Why this works
Answer engines are far more likely to quote a sentence built around a verifiable number, date, or proper noun, because it reads as a checkable fact rather than an opinion — "industry-leading" has nothing for a citation to point at, while "cart abandonment dropped from 68% to 51% between Feb and May 2026" is a claim someone could go verify against the source. The 50-word ceiling roughly matches how much text an answer engine tends to lift whole into a citation snippet rather than paraphrase down, so a claim engineered to exceed that length is optimizing for a shape the engine is statistically less likely to use intact. The bracket-instead-of-invent rule, and the explicit instruction to flag a partial or mismatched data match rather than smooth over it, exist because a prompt engineered to make text sound more citable is otherwise a direct incentive for a model to fabricate a plausible stat or quietly stretch a real one to fit — the exact failure this whole category has to guard against, since a fabricated number that gets cited doesn't just fail to help, it actively misinforms whoever reads the citation downstream.
What you get back
Before: "We pride ourselves on delivering industry-leading checkout experiences that customers love." After: "A checkout redesign cut cart abandonment from 68% to 51% between February and May 2026, per internal Shopify analytics." No brackets needed — supporting data was supplied, matched the claimed time period exactly, and was used as given.
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Perplexity Sonar Pro · 2026-07-28
ChatGPT GPT-5.1 · 2026-07-28
Changelog
- 2026-07-28 — Initial publish. Added the "bracket instead of invent" rule after early drafts of this prompt fabricated a plausible-sounding stat when none was supplied.
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