Analysis & Research

Product Review Sentiment Breakdown AI Prompt

Sorting through hundreds of product reviews can drain your time and cloud your decisions. You might see patterns, but it’s hard to turn scattered comments into clear insights you can share with your team. Without a structured approach, you risk missing the themes that matter most.

A strong prompt helps you extract sentiment, categorize issues, and highlight opportunities with clarity. With AskSmarter.ai, you build prompts that capture audience, context, goals, and format so you get actionable analysis on the first try.

This example shows how a vague request becomes a focused, high-quality prompt that delivers meaningful sentiment insights your team can trust.

The transformation

Before — Vague prompt

Analyze these product reviews and tell me what people think.

After — Optimized prompt

Role: Act as a consumer insights analyst.

Task: Review the provided product reviews and deliver a structured sentiment breakdown.

Deliverables:

  1. Sentiment summary: Percent positive, neutral, negative.
  2. Top 5 positive themes with sample quotes.
  3. Top 5 negative themes with sample quotes.
  4. Opportunities: Three actions to improve customer satisfaction.

Constraints: Keep the report under 300 words. Use clear, direct language.

Why this works

The optimized prompt sets you up for stronger results because it adds clarity, structure, and specific outputs the AI must deliver. Instead of a vague request, you assign a clear role. This guides the AI to think like an analyst rather than a general writer. You also identify the exact components you need: sentiment percentages, positive themes, negative themes, and improvement actions.

These details ensure the AI doesn’t wander or produce generic commentary. The word limit keeps the response concise. Defined sections make the final output easy to share with your team.

AskSmarter.ai improves prompts like this by asking targeted questions about audience, purpose, format, and constraints. These clarifying questions capture context you might forget, such as the need for sample quotes or a structured format. The result is a prompt that produces dependable insights with fewer revisions.

When to use this prompt

  • Marketing Managers

    Use it to understand customer sentiment before launching a new campaign or updating messaging.

  • Product Managers

    Extract actionable themes from user reviews to refine your roadmap or prioritize fixes.

  • Customer Success Leaders

    Monitor review trends to identify friction points that impact satisfaction and retention.

  • Researchers

    Turn raw qualitative review data into concise summaries for internal reports.

Pro tips

  • 1

    Specify the audience that will read the analysis to shape tone and depth.

  • 2

    Add the number of themes you want to keep insights focused.

  • 3

    Include sample quote requirements to support each insight.

  • 4

    Define word limits to keep the output concise and usable.

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Your turn

Build a prompt for your situation

This example shows the pattern. AskSmarter.ai guides you to create prompts tailored to your specific context, audience, and goals.