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.
The prompt
Ready to copy — highlighted parts are example details you can swap.
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.
2. One idea only — no second claim riding along in the same sentence or paragraph.
3. Delete unfalsifiable adjectives ("industry-leading," "best-in-class," "world-class") unless followed immediately by the evidence that earns them.
4. Keep it under 50 words total, so it can be extracted and quoted whole without trimming.
5. The paragraph must make sense with zero surrounding context — no "this," "it," or "our approach" without restating the subject.
OUTPUT
The rewritten paragraph, followed by one line flagging anything you had to bracket because no real data was supplied.Customize the highlighted detailsoptional — the prompt above already works
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. The 50-word ceiling roughly matches how much text an answer engine tends to lift whole into a citation snippet rather than paraphrase. The bracket-instead-of-invent rule exists because a prompt engineered to make text sound more citable is otherwise a direct incentive for a model to fabricate a plausible-sounding stat — the exact failure this whole category has to guard against.
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 and used as given.
Verified against
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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