What you'll get
- 1 copy-ready blocks
- 3 min read
- Paste the thread, then fill the two bracketed lines
How to use it
the pitch that decides a named account usually happens in a room you are not in. Paste the thread and have the assistant ghost-write the one page case your champion will have to make, in the champion's voice, built only from lines the buyer actually said. Then send it to your champion and ask what you got wrong. The corrections that come back are the real objection list.
The hack: the pitch that decides a named account usually happens in a room you are not in. Paste the thread and have the assistant ghost-write the one page case your champion will have to make, in the champion's voice, built only from lines the buyer actually said. Then send it to your champion and ask what you got wrong. The corrections that come back are the real objection list.
Why the internal pitch fails without you
Your champion is convinced, but conviction does not survive the corridor. Weeks of conversation get compressed into two sentences outside the lift, the head of finance hears a cost with no problem attached, and the deal you thought was moving quietly stops. None of that is the champion's fault. Selling is not their job, and nobody gave them the material to do yours.
The prompt
Paste the thread, then fill the two bracketed lines
Here is the full thread with [champion name], my contact at a named account.
The decision sits with [who signs and what they are measured on].
Write the one page note [champion first name] would send to that person to
argue for this purchase.
Rules:
1. Use only problems, numbers and dates that appear in the pasted record.
After each claim, quote the line it rests on in brackets.
2. Write it in the first person, as [champion first name], using their
vocabulary from the thread. None of my sales language survives.
3. Where the case needs a fact the record does not hold, such as budget,
timing or the signer's own goal, write ASK and the question to put.
4. End with the single decision being requested, in one sentence.The send test
Send the draft to your champion with one line: before your conversation with [signer], I wrote the note I would send in your place. What did I get wrong? Three things can happen, and each one pays.
- They send it nearly unchanged. The case was ready and now it is in their voice, on the record.
- They correct it. Every correction is an objection you had not heard: the real budget, the rival project, the signer's actual worry. That list is worth more than the draft.
- They go quiet. A contact who will not even mark up a note was never going to argue for you. Better to learn that from a draft than from a lost quarter. Go back to the committee map and find the person who will.
Three mistakes to avoid
- Writing it in your voice. A paragraph that smells of a vendor gets forwarded with a raised eyebrow or not at all. If your champion cannot paste it as their own, it is not finished.
- Adding facts the buyer never said. Your guess becomes the champion's claim in front of the person who signs. An invented number discovered internally costs the champion, and champions do not forgive that.
- Confusing the draft with the deal. The note does not close anything. It arms one conversation. The forwardable introduction gets you into the room above; this prepares the argument once the question is money.
Make it a habit: write the champion's draft before every decision meeting you are not invited to, and keep the corrected copy in the account record. It is the buyer's case for buying, in the buyer's own words, and every later message can borrow from it.
Why this works on named accounts
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