Library/Deal Strategy & Stakeholder Management/Stalled Deal Recovery/Diagnose a Stalled Deal and Build a Revival Plan
TestedDeal Strategy & Stakeholder ManagementQuick Win (under 10 min)
About this prompt
This prompt helps AEs and sales managers get an honest, structured diagnosis of why a deal has stopped moving and a concrete action plan to revive it. It takes deal details including stage, days in stage, champion status, economic buyer engagement, last meaningful activity, and your current hypothesis about the blocker, then returns the most likely real reason the deal is stuck, what qualification element is probably missing, three specific actions for the next seven days, and a direct recommendation on whether to keep investing. Use it when a deal hasn't moved in two or more weeks and you're not sure what to do next.Deals stall for predictable reasons — missing urgency, weak or absent champion, no economic buyer access, or a business case that hasn't been made — but reps often diagnose the wrong blocker and take the wrong action as a result. This prompt structures the diagnosis by asking for the deal's current state across the dimensions that most reliably predict stall causes, then gives you an honest assessment rather than a motivational push to keep going. The most important inputs are [LAST MEANINGFUL ACTIVITY] and [WHAT I THINK THE BLOCKER IS] — the gap between what you believe is happening and what the prompt diagnoses is often where the insight lives. [CHAMPION] and [ECONOMIC BUYER ENGAGED] are binary but critical: many stalled deals are stalled because one or both are missing. The output closes with a direct question — keep investing or qualify out — which most reps avoid asking themselves. Use this prompt for deals that have been in the same stage for more than two weeks or that have missed a committed close date by more than one period. For deals that are stalling because of a specific named objection (pricing, timing, competitor), an objection-handling prompt will give you sharper tactical guidance than this diagnostic approach.The prompt
You are a senior enterprise sales coach. I have a deal that is stuck and I need your honest assessment. Deal details: ● Company: [INSERT] ● Deal size: [INSERT] ● Stage: [INSERT] ● Days in stage: [INSE
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Variables to replace
INSERT | INSERT / NONE | YES/NO
How to run it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot — it's tuned to run in any of them.
- Replace the variables — swap each bracketed token for your deal's specifics. The variables list above explains every field.
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