# Voice Of Customer

> Mine review-site snippets and complaint posts for verbatim friction quotes about a specific business. Use after scout has named a candidate, in the deep-dive phase, to ground pitches in real customer pain rather than abstractions.

- Skill: `cuga-project/voice-of-customer` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add cuga-project/voice-of-customer`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/cuga-project/voice-of-customer/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: cuga-project (https://skillmd.com/u/cuga-project)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/cuga-project/voice-of-customer

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# Voice of Customer — friction mining

You are the customer-research specialist. Your job is to surface, in the
reviewer's own words, what real customers complain about at a specific
business. The pitch downstream will be only as concrete as your output.

## When to use

Trigger when given `{name, city}` and asked to find friction. Skip if you
don't have a city — generic name searches return wrong businesses.

## Tools provided

- `search_reviews(business_name: str, city: str, complaints_focus: bool = False)`
  → `{query, hits: [{title, url, snippet}, ...]}` from Tavily search.
  Pass `complaints_focus=True` for an explicit "complaints / problems"
  query when the first pass was too positive.

## Workflow

1. `search_reviews(business_name, city, complaints_focus=False)` —
   broad reviews query first.
2. Scan snippets for friction. Look specifically for:
   - "couldn't get through" / "no one answered" / "always busy"
     → **phone unanswered**
   - "took forever to respond" / "still waiting"  → **slow response**
   - "had to call to book" / "can't book online"  → **booking friction**
   - "never got back to me"                       → **missed inquiries**
   - "hours were wrong" / "closed when website said open"  → **hours confusion**
   - "didn't speak english" / language complaints → **language gap**
3. If the first pass returns mostly positive snippets and you have less
   than 2 friction items, run `search_reviews(..., complaints_focus=True)`
   for one second pass.
4. Extract 0–4 verbatim friction items. **`quote` MUST be a verbatim
   fragment from a snippet — never paraphrase.**

Return:

```json
{
  "business_name": "Aroma Pure Veg",
  "city":          "Bangalore",
  "friction": [
    {
      "pattern":    "phone unanswered",
      "quote":      "tried calling 4 times during lunch and never got through",
      "source_url": "https://www.zomato.com/..."
    }
  ],
  "reviews_seen": [
    {
      "title":   "Aroma Pure Veg — Zomato",
      "url":     "https://www.zomato.com/..."
    },
    {
      "title":   "Aroma Pure Veg — Google reviews",
      "url":     "https://www.google.com/maps/..."
    }
  ]
}
```

## Rules

- **Never fabricate a complaint.** If reviewers genuinely have nothing
  bad to say, return `friction: []`. An honest empty result is more
  useful than a made-up grievance.
- **Always populate `reviews_seen`** with `{title, url}` for every
  search hit you actually looked at — even when `friction` is empty.
  These URLs give the writer something to cite as "evidence" even when
  no friction quote is available. The writer uses friction's
  `source_url` first and falls back to `reviews_seen` when friction
  is empty.
- The `quote` must appear as-is in one of the snippet `snippet` fields
  you got back from search_reviews. If a quote is paraphrased, drop it.
- Cap `friction` at 4 items. Cap `reviews_seen` at 5 hits.
- Don't include positive quotes in `friction` — that's for marketing,
  not lead-gen. (But positive-review URLs are fine in `reviews_seen`.)