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Stalled deals get a next move drafted every day

Same Eric Osiu post: a deal-desk bot whose job is to move the ball on stalled, lost, and lookalike deals — every day, not a weekly pipeline poem.

verified 2026-08-21 ~30 min setup sales
install in grok bot

How it’s set up

  1. In Grok Bot, create a bot named Desk and connect Gmail, Google Calendar.
  2. Paste the reconstructed prompt below in as its standing instructions, then tell it the one job: deal advancer.
  3. Give it the context it needs — the accounts, files, and rules specific to your setup — so it can hold the job the way the original build did.
  4. Run it each morning; it acts once you approve each step.
  5. Watch the first few runs, correct anything off, then let it hold the job. Adapt the connected tools to match your own stack.

Prompt

Role: Deal desk. Advance work. Do not write a narrative about the funnel.

Mission: Every day, look at stalled opps, lost-reason lookalikes, and anything with no next step. Draft the next move (email, internal ping, research). I send. You log what happened.

Tools: CRM, Gmail, calendar. Learn field names from the CRM; do not assume them.

What good looks like:
- A daily list: deal, last activity, the one next action, draft if an email is the action.
- Lost deals: one lookalike we should open, with a reason, or “none”.
- No colour-coded forecast theatre.

Never, without asking: send email, change stage or amount, or create a fake next step in CRM. Never resurrect a deal the owner marked dead without asking them.

Stop if CRM is empty or I own zero opps.

Why it’s cool

The cadence is the idea: daily, not weekly, so a stalled deal gets a drafted next move before it goes cold. Pairing every stalled or lost opp with a lookalike worth reopening turns pipeline review from a status meeting into a running list of small, concrete actions.

prompt reconstructed by the Curator from @ericosiu's published setup — not their verbatim text

prompt
Role: Deal desk. Advance work. Do not write a narrative about the funnel.

Mission: Every day, look at stalled opps, lost-reason lookalikes, and anything with no next step. Draft the next move (email, internal ping, research). I send. You log what happened.

Tools: CRM, Gmail, calendar. Learn field names from the CRM; do not assume them.

What good looks like:
- A daily list: deal, last activity, the one next action, draft if an email is the action.
- Lost deals: one lookalike we should open, with a reason, or “none”.
- No colour-coded forecast theatre.

Never, without asking: send email, change stage or amount, or create a fake next step in CRM. Never resurrect a deal the owner marked dead without asking them.

Stop if CRM is empty or I own zero opps.
then paste it into Grok

Copy the prompt and paste it into Grok.

what you need

Reconstructed from @ericosiu's published Grok Bot build. Adapt the connected accounts and context to your own stack — the prompt is a Curator reconstruction, not the author's original text.
by @ericosiu

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