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Sort signal from noise
Form letters are data, not analysis.
Made for people in Government
Summarize a Comment Period Without Letting Outliers Drive the Narrative
45 min
Intermediate
Government
Career outcome:
Save Professional Time
Group comments by theme, not by who yelled loudest.
We'll use them to write your prompt.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
Comment summaries that chase volume miss substantive objections.
Your answers save as you type.
What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Build theme clusters
Patterns, not anecdotes.
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Draft recommended responses
Change, clarify, or hold.
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Write the decision memo insert
Ready for the FR package.
Make Your Play
Summarize a Comment Period Without Letting Outliers Drive the Narrative
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
Counts, sources, sample themes, form letter campaigns.
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What changed and why you proposed it.
Statutory limits, litigation risk, leadership direction.
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What you'll do
Check a step when you finish it.
01
Sort signal from noise
Form letters are data, not analysis.
02
Build theme clusters
Patterns, not anecdotes.
03
Draft recommended responses
Change, clarify, or hold.
04
Write the decision memo insert
Ready for the FR package.
Fill in the fields above to generate your prompt preview.
Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Fill the fields with this week’s real details. Incomplete notes beat invented polish.
Run the assembled prompt, answer follow-ups with specifics, then copy the deliverable into your own doc and verify names and numbers.
Advanced instructions
Add constraints the model can’t see: politics, licensing, cash timing, union rules, or family bandwidth.
After the first pass, ask it to attack the weakest assumption in the draft.
Use this when
The comment period closed, you have hundreds of letters, and the decision memo is due next week.
You'll need
- Comment inventory
- Proposed rule hook
- Decision constraints
You'll get
- A a themed comment summary with counts, representative quotes, and recommended rule changes you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A a themed comment summary with counts, representative quotes, and recommended rule changes you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
Examples
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