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Pipeline Playbooks

When a Qualified Lead Becomes an Active Lead

Qualification says a lead meets the agreed criteria. Active status says verified evidence now requires a defined tenant or human action. Those are different decisions. This framework separates the trigger, active-state decision, owner routing and acceptance, automation change, and next-action record so a meaningful signal does not become an unsupported sales claim.

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How to Hand Off an Active Lead Without Losing Decision Context

A lead handoff fails when the new owner receives a name and a reply but not the decision that produced them. An active-lead transfer needs qualification evidence, source events, stakeholder context, prior claims, commitments, controls, unresolved questions, and one accepted next action - all bounded to the company and application in scope.

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How Tenant Takeover Should Change Automation

Tenant takeover should change more than the owner field. Once a user accepts an active lead, company prospecting, round progression, contact replacement, and unsupervised follow-up must stop or become explicitly bounded. Recording, reminders, approved drafts, and control enforcement may continue only under a visible takeover contract.

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How to Drain an Old ICP After a Targeting Change

Changing the Primary ICP should affect new targeting immediately without pretending that every in-flight company disappeared. SellersGPT keeps the former Primary ICP in a 30-day draining state. A controlled drain freezes new admission, preserves versioned decisions, protects active human work, limits old-scope automation, and gives every residual record a final disposition.

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Existing Customer vs. Suppression: Two Different Pipeline Controls

A company can be excluded from prospecting because it is already a customer, or because outreach is not allowed or appropriate for another reason. Those states have different consequences in SellersGPT. Existing Customer blocks outreach and billing. Suppression blocks outreach only. Keeping both visible prevents accidental contact, duplicate treatment, and incorrect commercial handling.

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How to Measure Pipeline Quality Without Rewarding Email Volume

Email volume proves that a sending system was active. It does not prove that the market was right, the account qualified, the contact mattered, the response was human, or the next action was owned. This framework measures pipeline quality through evidence integrity, stage correctness, buyer-relevant progression, human ownership, and control performance.

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