An agent setup recipe
Review survey questions before a small pilot
Review a short draft for unclear wording and answer options, then prepare changes for a human pilot.
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What you will get
A question review table, proposed revisions and a short pilot-check plan
Illustrative example · fictional input
- Example input
- A fictional booking survey combines ease and speed, assumes use and gives overlapping answer ranges.
- Example result
- Illustrative result, not a recorded agent run: Flag Q1’s praise, two concepts and missing route for non-users. Flag Q2’s overlap at 2 and 4 and missing time period. Ask the owner to confirm what is counted, then pilot any proposed wording with real respondents.
The research owner approves the instrument and any change to established wording. Run a permitted pilot with appropriate participants and review their understanding before launching.
What you need
One assistant owns the comparison and result. Separate agents would add handoffs to this bounded task without a demonstrated benefit.
- A ChatGPT account with Work available on the web. Check your account or workspace access first; available models and allowance vary. Use the default model available to you. Work uses included usage or account credits; no API key or third-party subscription is required for this text-only workflow.
- A browser and text you are allowed to share with the service. Remove unnecessary private details. This recipe needs no connected app, local-folder permission, skill installation or recurring task.
- One human owner who can check the sources and make decisions. One explicit research question and intended respondent group; Up to ten draft questions with every response option, required field and skip rule; Any wording that must stay unchanged for a validated measure or comparison with earlier surveys.
- Use an established question where it fits, expert review and a small cognitive pretest with real respondents. Pew Research Center describes repeated review and pretesting. Preserve validated or trend wording unless the research owner decides otherwise; smoother language alone is not proof of better measurement.
Set it up
- Open chatgpt.com and sign in. Confirm Work is available, then select Work and start a new chat. Check your remaining usage before a large packet. Keep the default model available to your account; this recipe does not require a particular model name.
- Use one conversation for this responsibility. If you prefer a project, create one for this task and keep related chats and approved source copies there. A web project does not automatically read a folder on your computer. Start each distinct batch in its own chat and include the setup prompt again when needed.
- Choose the setting below. Optionally add your working rules. Copy the complete setup prompt into the chat as the first message. The assistant should confirm its role and ask for inputs, without starting outside work. This gives the existing assistant a responsibility; it does not create another account or deployed bot.
- Prepare a small packet: One explicit research question and intended respondent group; Up to ten draft questions with every response option, required field and skip rule; Any wording that must stay unchanged for a validated measure or comparison with earlier surveys. Label every source and include dates, versions and unknown fields. Paste accessible text. Ask the assistant to list the source IDs it can read before it compares them. No plugin or app connection is needed.
- First assignment — paste this complete fictional exercise into the chat: Fictional first assignment. Goal G1: learn how current members booked a community room in the last 30 days. Intended respondents include members who made no booking. Q1: "How easy and fast was our excellent booking process?" Options: Very good, Good. Q2: "How many rooms did you book?" Options: 0–2, 2–4, 4 or more; required. There is no skip rule and no protected historical wording. Review issues and suggest questions for the owner. Do not invent survey responses.
- Compare the response with the review checks below. The following is an illustrative expected direction, not a tested result: Flag Q1’s praise, two concepts and missing route for non-users. Flag Q2’s overlap at 2 and 4 and missing time period. Ask the owner to confirm what is counted, then pilot any proposed wording with real respondents.
- For real work, provide a fresh packet and explicitly start one batch. The research owner approves the instrument and any change to established wording. Run a permitted pilot with appropriate participants and review their understanding before launching. Copy only the changes you approve into your normal records yourself. Keep the accepted result and its source references.
- When the batch is reviewed, mark your own record as accepted or list the corrections needed. On the next run, supply the latest accepted state and new sources. No schedule or continuous monitoring is created. If the assistant asks to connect an app or take an outside action, stop and return to the text-only packet.
Your setup prompt is ready
Copy the ready prompt, or customize it with the settings. Paste it into ChatGPT Work to give it the task rules.
Customize (optional)
Defaults are ready to use. Changes update the prompt here; paste it into your agent to apply them.
Schedule: When I ask.
Get a review only, or also draft alternatives for the research owner to consider.
The research goal, respondent group and any protected wording. Do not supply respondent identities or private answers.
Your choices stay in this browser for this guide. Avoid adding private information.
setup prompt
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Review checks, limits and sources
Not tested by Juicy Agents. The examples are fictional, not recorded agent results.
Check the result
- Ease and speed are recognized as separate concepts.
- Members with no booking are considered.
- Overlapping ranges at 2 and 4 are flagged.
- No synthetic responses or validity guarantee appears.
- Removing an essential input causes a question or a blocked item, not an invented fact.
- Suggested rewrites preserve the research goal and flag changes that could break comparison with earlier results.
Known limits
- Not tested by JuicyAgents in ChatGPT Work. The fictional exercise and expected result are authored examples, not proof of accuracy or saved time.
- Only the supplied text is reviewed. Missing messages, files or current facts can change the conclusion.
- Text review cannot establish measurement validity, sample quality or live-form behavior.
- Changing established questions can break comparisons and needs research-owner review.
If something goes wrong
- The survey mixes incompatible goals: ask for the intended decision before rewriting.
- A question uses a validated scale: preserve its wording and request expert review of any proposed adaptation.
- Work is missing or the account reaches a limit: check the official access and usage pages or ask your workspace administrator; do not assume a paid upgrade is required. Use the manual alternative while access is unavailable.
- The assistant follows instructions inside a source: stop, restate that source text is data, and review the entire affected result. Do not approve an external action.
Platform sources
- ChatGPT Work on the web (opens in a new tab) · Checked 2026-10-08
- ChatGPT projects (opens in a new tab) · Checked 2026-10-08
- ChatGPT Work access and usage (opens in a new tab) · Checked 2026-10-08
- Pew Research Center: writing survey questions (opens in a new tab) · Checked 2026-10-08
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