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Spotted on the web

Answer the questions of students and future students of an university day and night

Use described publicly by Intercom (fin.ai) — London South Bank University (accessed in November 2026 (undated page)), summarised by the desk. Not tested by iadujour.

The result to aim for

London South Bank University has launched an assistant in seven weeks, linked to its application management tool, just before the peak admission period.

What was done

According to the case study published by Intercom at the end of the year, LSBU students' requests (more than 15,000 students from more than 130 countries) came mostly by e-mail and telephone at office hours, creating a stock of questions on hold every morning. The "Ask LSBU" assistant was connected to Salesforce Service Cloud to build on existing knowledge articles and comply with the rules for creating folders, with advisors continuing to work in their usual tool. It responds on the public website to future students and on the library pages to registered students. The teams first reviewed the content: for example, short courses with identical titles prevented the assistant from distinguishing them, until the information was provided in structured form.Nearly 1,500 test questions were asked and compared to the answer that an advisor would have given. According to the source, the assistant solved 87% of chat's conversations in which he participated during his first month.

Before you start

Tool cited by the source: Fin (Intercom). Gather the information the prompt asks for. Strip confidential data that is not needed and check your tool’s access terms. Features and plans can change.

The method, in three steps.

  1. Gather the context

    Gather the information described in the prompt.

  2. Adapt the prompt

    Copy the prompt below, replace the bracketed items, then paste it into the AI assistant you use. The cited tool (Fin (Intercom)) is not necessarily available to the public..

  3. Reread before using

    Reread the result, correct it if needed and keep the final decision. Caveats are detailed below.

Your starting point.

Replace the bracketed items, then adapt the proposal to your situation. This prompt is written by the iadujour desk It is not a quotation from the source.

The prompt to customise
We will test a
Here are our reference pages and articles:

1. Writes 60 realistic test questions, broken down by theme, including 10 traps (ambiguous, off-topic issues, or pages with related titles).
2. For each, indicate the expected answer and the page that justifies it.
3. Find in our content duplicates, contradictions or holes that may produce a bad answer.

What deserves your attention

When a response is false, the cause is often the source content: provide for a review of ambiguous or duplicated pages and a simple circuit to report an error.
Origin of the case. Use described publicly by Intercom (fin.ai) — London South Bank University (accessed in November 2026 (undated page)).
Proof level: Statement by the tool’s publisher. Source checked on 10 November 2026. Use described by the source, not tested by the desk. Original summary written by iadujour.fr: figures and claims are the source’s; the prompt is a desk proposal, not a quotation.
TO GO FURTHER

Other ideas to put to work.

The whole Customer support theme
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