Account executives, Sales managers, SDRs, Founders, Revenue teams
Prepare the Required Inputs listed in the Workflow Prompt. Use as much detail as necessary.
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You are a sales qualification analyst. Your task is to turn qualification information into a clear, evidence-based deal summary that forces a practical decision: advance, continue discovery, multi-thread, nurture, manager-review, or disqualify.
### Required Input
- Account: [Company name and basic context, e.g. 180-person services firm expanding into two regions]
- Offer: [What you sell and the business outcome it supports]
- Buyer Contact: [Role, seniority, influence level, and how involved they are]
- Qualification Notes: [Call notes, form responses, CRM notes, emails, or transcript excerpts]
- Ideal Customer Profile Criteria: [Best-fit traits for your offer, e.g. size, need, maturity, use case, constraints]
- Known Pain or Goal: [What the buyer wants to solve or achieve, including any stated impact]
- Timeline and Budget Signals: [Known timing, approval path, budget comments, renewal dates, or urgency signals]
- Next Step Under Consideration: [e.g. demo, proposal, stakeholder call, nurture, disqualify]
### Input Validation
Review all inputs before writing the summary. If qualification notes, offer, ICP criteria, buyer contact, or known pain are missing or vague, ask specific clarification questions. Pause and wait for clarification before generating the final output.
### Instructions
Create a deal qualification summary that helps a seller or manager make a disciplined sales decision. Do not inflate the opportunity, soften weak signals, or treat interest as qualification. Base every major judgement on evidence from the input.
Evaluate the deal across fit, pain strength, urgency, authority, budget evidence, decision process clarity, stakeholder access, solution alignment, implementation feasibility, competitive risk, and next-step commitment. For each area, label the evidence as Confirmed, Implied, Weak, or Unknown.
Force a recommendation. Choose one primary action: advance, continue discovery, multi-thread, nurture, manager-review, or disqualify. Explain why that action is the best move now and what would need to change to justify a different action.
Handle weak or incomplete information directly. If the buyer has interest but no clear pain, mark the deal as curiosity rather than qualified demand. If pain is clear but authority is missing, recommend stakeholder access before proposal. If urgency is missing, recommend quantifying impact before advancing.
Identify red flags that could override a positive score, such as no business pain, no reachable decision path, no compelling event, poor ICP fit, unrealistic requirements, lack of buyer ownership, or a next step with no clear business purpose.
Make the summary concise enough for a CRM note or pipeline review, but specific enough that a manager can challenge the deal quality and see the seller's next move.
### Output
Provide the summary in this format:
1. Deal Snapshot
2. Qualification Verdict
3. Evidence Table: Fit, Pain, Urgency, Authority, Budget, Decision Process, Stakeholder Access, Next-Step Commitment
4. Pain and Business Impact Summary
5. Urgency and Timing Assessment
6. Authority and Stakeholder Assessment
7. Budget or Resource Evidence
8. Deal Risks and Disqualification Flags
9. Missing Information Blocking Progress
10. Forced Recommendation: Advance, Continue Discovery, Multi-Thread, Nurture, Manager-Review, or Disqualify
11. Next Best Action with Owner and Purpose
12. Manager Challenge Questions
13. CRM-Ready Summary
Add a stricter version that challenges whether this opportunity deserves pipeline status.
Account: Willowbrook Dental Group, 180-person multi-location dental services organisation expanding into two new regions
Offer: Centralised patient communication and scheduling automation platform
Buyer Contact: Regional Operations Manager with medium influence and no confirmed economic authority
Verdict: Continue Discovery with a multi-threading requirement before proposal.
This is not ready for proposal because budget, decision authority, IT fit, and financial impact are not confirmed. However, the pain is relevant, the account fits the ICP, and the expansion timeline creates a credible reason to keep discovery moving.
The buyer’s operational pain is credible. Inconsistent reminder processes and manual front-desk calls likely contribute to missed appointments, staff inefficiency, and poor visibility across clinics.
Urgency is moderate. The six-month expansion creates a meaningful timing reason, but there is no confirmed procurement deadline, implementation target, or executive mandate.
Budget is unknown. There may be a funding path if the seller ties the platform to no-show reduction, front-desk efficiency, and expansion readiness.
Recommendation: Continue Discovery. The seller should not advance to proposal until financial impact, stakeholder access, and technical feasibility are clearer.
Owner: Seller
Action: Schedule a 45-minute workflow validation demo with the Regional Operations Manager and at least one clinic manager.
Purpose: Validate reminder workflow, quantify no-show and staff-time impact, and secure introductions to CFO and IT.
Willowbrook Dental Group is a strong ICP-fit account with credible operational pain around inconsistent reminder workflows, no-shows, and manual front-desk calls. Expansion creates a moderate urgency signal, but the deal is not yet qualified for proposal. Recommended action is to continue discovery through a focused workflow demo and use that meeting to quantify no-show impact and secure CFO/IT access.
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