A practical UK/IE small-business guide to drafting customer emails with AI — prompts, edit habits, privacy basics, and when to skip automation.

By Jason Sibley
UK and Ireland owners, salespeople and anyone who answers customer email and wants AI to speed up drafting, without sounding like a call centre script or a LinkedIn bot.
Used well, AI writes a first draft from your notes: the situation, the outcome you want, and the tone you actually use with customers. You edit for facts, names and warmth, then send.
Used badly, you paste “write a pr