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Diagnose and Recover a Stalled Deal

Generate a root cause diagnosis re-engagement strategy and cut-loss criteria for any deal that has gone quiet.

About this prompt

This prompt diagnoses deal stalls across six root causes — priority dropped, champion lost influence, evaluating a competitor, budget disappeared, internal politics, or rep didn't earn the next step — and generates a re-engagement strategy, multi-channel outreach sequence, and cut-loss criteria for each scenario. It's for AEs and sales managers managing deals that have gone quiet or are stuck in stage.A stalled deal has one of a handful of root causes, and the response strategy is different for each — this prompt forces you to diagnose before you re-engage rather than defaulting to the same follow-up regardless of what's actually happening. Fill in the company, deal value, stage, days in current stage, last meaningful contact, the next step that didn't happen, champion status, and known competition, and the prompt generates specific diagnostic questions and response strategies for each stall scenario. The champion lost influence scenario is often the hardest to diagnose — the prompt flags the behavioral signals to watch for. The cut-loss criteria section is valuable for pipeline hygiene: not every stalled deal deserves continued investment, and knowing when to stop preserves time for deals that can actually close. One tip: before you re-engage on a stalled deal, try to gather intel from a secondary contact in the account about what's actually happening internally — going in cold with a re-engagement message without knowing the real reason it stalled often makes things worse.

The prompt

Help me unstick this stalled deal. Deal context: ● Company: [PROSPECT] ● Deal value: [ACV] ● Stage: [CURRENT STAGE] ● Days in stage: [NUMBER] ● Last meaningful contact: [DATE AND WHAT HAPPENED] ● Stat
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PROSPECT|ACV|CURRENT STAGE|NUMBER|DATE AND WHAT HAPPENED|WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN|ENGAGED / GONE DARK / LEFT COMPANY|KNOWN ALTERNATIVES

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  1. Copy the prompt and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot — it's tuned to run in any of them.
  2. Replace the variables — swap each bracketed token for your deal's specifics. The variables list above explains every field.
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StagePipeline Management
SeatAE, Sales Manager
DifficultyAdvanced
Time to valueQuick Win (under 10 min)
Works withAI-Agnostic
CategoryDeal Strategy & Stakeholder Management
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