Make Honest Feedback Part of the Customer Journey
Create a consistent post-service process that asks eligible customers for genuine feedback, makes public review options easy to access and helps the business respond appropriately.
Customers Often Need a Timely, Simple Invitation
A review process does not manufacture reputation. It helps the business consistently invite genuine customers to describe their real experience.
One Consistent Process for Eligible Customers
A connected reputation flywheel—not a funnel that separates happy and unhappy customers.
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Service or agreed milestone completed
A job, appointment, placement, consultation or agreed milestone reaches the appropriate completed status.
Genuine customer eligibility confirmed
The configured process confirms that the person is a genuine customer or service user eligible for the request.
Neutral request sent after the configured delay
An approved SMS or email invites honest feedback after the agreed delay, with limited reminders where the process allows.
Customer chooses whether and how to respond
The customer decides whether to review and which platform, rating or wording to provide.
Business monitors and responds appropriately
Relevant platforms and feedback routes are watched, with professional, proportionate replies.
Operational learning informs future service
Recurring themes from feedback are identified and used to improve the underlying process.
Timing, eligibility, limited reminders and stopping rules depend on the customer journey, platform requirements and communication configuration.
Eligible customers should receive the same fair opportunity to leave an honest review regardless of whether the business expects positive or negative feedback.
The customer chooses whether to review and what rating or wording to provide. LeadAI does not write, influence or submit reviews on the customer's behalf.
Related—but Not the Same Process
- Invite an eligible customer to share an honest experience
- Provide a direct link to an approved review platform
- Use neutral wording
- Do not request a particular rating or specific content
- Do not offer incentives
- Ask what went well and what could improve
- Route service concerns to the appropriate person
- Create a task for human follow-up where configured
- Use feedback to improve operations
- Do not use the response to decide whether the customer receives a public review link
Fair opportunity. Private feedback must never determine whether an eligible customer receives the same public-review opportunity.
Reputation Management Continues After the Request
Monitor
Review relevant platforms and customer-feedback routes consistently.
Respond
Reply professionally and proportionately, without revealing private customer information.
Escalate
Send complaints, service failures or sensitive issues to an appropriate person.
Learn
Identify recurring operational themes that may require improvements.
Negative reviews cannot simply be removed because the business disagrees with them. Platform reporting should be reserved for content that may breach the relevant platform's policies.
Connected to Completion—not Run as a Separate Campaign
The review process works best when completion is recorded accurately and each request has a clear trigger, owner and stopping point.
- Customer-journey and completion mapping
- Eligibility and trigger rules
- Neutral SMS and email wording
- Approved public-review links
- Limited reminder and stopping rules
- Internal feedback routing
- Staff notifications and response tasks
- End-to-end testing
Functionality depends on the review platforms, CRM connections and communication channels included in the agreed scope.
Responsible Review Requests
LeadAI supports the operational process but does not control customer reviews, platform decisions, ratings or search rankings.
Is Asking for Feedback Part of Your Customer Journey?
Book a Growth System Audit to review when customer relationships are completed, how feedback is currently requested and how the process could be managed more consistently.