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PROMPTS
16
From four industry pages
INDUSTRIES
4
Food, health, professional, home
TYPICAL LENGTH
2 PARTS
A request plus a preference
PLATFORMS
6
Each prompt observed on all
How customers phrase a real request
The short city questions read like search queries. The prompts on Bay Area AEO's four industry pages read like a person talking: “I need a chiropractor in Fremont for lower back pain. Someone who doesn't just crack and send you home.” Or: “Who should I call to replace my gas furnace with a heat pump in Concord? I want someone who handles the rebates.”
That is how many people now use ChatGPT and Claude. They describe the situation, add a preference, and expect a short list with reasons. The assistant has to find businesses that match every part, and it explains its choice in the reasons it writes.
The documented prompts
| Industry | Prompt | Requirements beyond service and city |
|---|---|---|
| Food and Drink | “Where should I take my parents for dinner in Walnut Creek? Somewhere quiet with good wine.” | occasion (parents' dinner); atmosphere (quiet); wine |
| Food and Drink | “What's a good restaurant in Palo Alto for a birthday dinner for six people?” | occasion (birthday); party size (six) |
| Food and Drink | “Coffee shop in Sunnyvale with good Wi-Fi where I can work for a few hours?” | Wi-Fi; time to stay and work |
| Food and Drink | “Where can I order a custom birthday cake in Fremont with about a week's notice?” | custom order; lead time (a week) |
| Health and Wellness | “I need a chiropractor in Fremont for lower back pain. Someone who doesn't just crack and send you home.” | condition (lower back pain); treatment style |
| Health and Wellness | “Can you recommend a dentist in San Mateo who's good with anxious patients and takes Delta Dental?” | patient need (anxiety); insurance plan (Delta Dental) |
| Health and Wellness | “Who's a good chiropractor in Walnut Creek for a sports injury? I run a lot.” | injury type; patient profile (runner) |
| Health and Wellness | “Where can I get Botox in Los Gatos from an experienced nurse injector? Natural-looking results.” | treatment (Botox); provider type; result style |
| Professional Services | “I need a CPA in San Jose who works with startup founders and handles equity compensation.” | client type (startup founders); specialty (equity compensation) |
| Professional Services | “Who's a good estate planning attorney in Palo Alto for a family with a house and stock options?” | practice area; household assets |
| Professional Services | “CPA in Cupertino who understands RSUs and ESPP for tech employees?” | specialty (RSUs and ESPP); client type |
| Professional Services | “Fee-only financial planner in San Mateo who works with tech employees and stock options?” | fee model (fee-only); client type; stock options |
| Home Services | “Who should I call to replace my gas furnace with a heat pump in Concord? I want someone who handles the rebates.” | equipment swap (furnace to heat pump); rebates |
| Home Services | “My water heater is leaking. Is there a plumber in Hayward who can come today?” | urgency (today); problem (leaking water heater) |
| Home Services | “HVAC company in San Jose that installs heat pumps and knows the rebate programs?” | installation type (heat pumps); rebate programs |
| Home Services | “Electrician in Palo Alto to upgrade my panel for an EV charger and heat pump?” | job (panel upgrade); EV charger plus heat pump |
Reading the requirements
Each prompt splits into a service, a place and one or more requirements. The dentist prompt asks for San Mateo, a dentist, gentleness with anxious patients and Delta Dental. Under query fan-out an assistant may check each of those separately: a listing for the location, the practice's own pages for insurance, reviews for how anxious patients describe their visits.
The observation records which requirements the answer addressed for each named business. If the assistant names a practice and says it takes Delta Dental, the insurance fact reached the answer. If it names the practice with no reason, the assistant found the business but little to say about it, which points to answer-ready content and review language.
The reasons are part of the reading
A conversational answer usually explains its picks: “known for gentle care,” “handles rebate paperwork,” “experienced nurse injector.” Those phrases come from somewhere. Often they echo reviews or the business's own service pages. Description accuracy, one of the four readings, checks whether each reason is true and whether it matches what the business wants to be known for.
Follow-up questions
Conversational use also invites follow-ups such as “Which of those is open Saturday?” or “Do any of them speak Spanish?” The monthly panel keeps the opening prompt fixed so months stay comparable. The requirements inside it show which follow-up facts a business should publish clearly, because the assistant will look for them the moment a customer asks.
From prompts to niche panels
The industry prompts set the tone; the forty niche panels supply the detail. The food and drink panel, for example, adds questions about dog-friendly breweries, gluten-free birthday cakes and wineries that need no reservation. Each niche panel lists its own sample questions and the signals that answer them.
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