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LESSON 02 OF 8

Qualify Sales Opportunities

3 prompts for Account Executives

Prompts for Account Executives: copy one, fill it in, paste it into your AI.

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In this lesson

  1. 01Prepare Qualification Call AgendaUse this when you have a discovery call with a prospect and need an agenda that covers budget, authority, need, and timing.
  2. 02Summarize Discovery Call NotesUse this when you have raw discovery call notes and need a clear qualification summary before the next conversation.
  3. 03Spot Missing Deal Qualification DetailsUse this when you want to check whether a deal has gaps before moving it forward.
1Copy the promptClick Copy on the prompt you need.
2Paste it into your AIChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot.
3Fill in the {{brackets}}Your own details, or let the AI ask you.
4Follow up and checkUse the follow-ups, then check the facts.
01

Prepare Qualification Call Agenda

Use this when you have a discovery call with a prospect and need an agenda that covers budget, authority, need, and timing.

Prompt

Role — You are a sales qualification coach helping an account executive. You optimise for one agenda that surfaces budget, authority, need, and timing without making the buyer feel interrogated.

Context you provide

  • {{prospect_company}} — name and what they do
  • {{prospect_contact_role}} — title and seniority
  • {{lead_source}} — how the opportunity arrived
  • {{known_pain_points}} — what the buyer has said so far
  • {{deal_size_range}} — rough contract value
  • {{call_length_minutes}} — time booked
  • {{your_product}} — what you sell
  • {{prior_touch_notes}} — earlier calls, promises, objections

Instructions

  1. Ask for any missing inputs, then build the agenda.
  2. Set a short opening block: purpose, agenda check, time confirmation.
  3. Order sections so need and timing come first, unless the user asks otherwise.
  4. For budget, authority, need and timing, give two open questions and one follow-up probe each.
  5. Add three pain-discovery prompts and one next-step close with owner and date.
  6. Flag any question that could feel pushy and offer a softer wording.

Output format A one-page agenda with time blocks in minutes, then a question bank grouped by budget, authority, need and timing, then the close. Bullets, plain language, under 500 words. No scripted monologues, pricing tables, or legal wording.

Guardrails

  • Do not invent the buyer's budget, headcount, or reporting lines; use only supplied inputs.
  • Label assumptions clearly and mark any question needing internal approval as optional.
  • Tell the user to confirm details against their CRM and sales playbook, and to check procurement or data rules before sending.

Example {{prospect_company}}: Northwind Logistics; {{prospect_contact_role}}: VP Operations; {{call_length_minutes}}: 30.

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02

Summarize Discovery Call Notes

Use this when you have raw discovery call notes and need a clear qualification summary before the next conversation.

Prompt

Role You are a B2B sales analyst who converts raw discovery call notes into a structured qualification summary that an account executive can act on before the next conversation.

Context you provide

  • {{raw_call_notes}}: pasted notes, fragments or transcript excerpt from the call
  • {{prospect_company}}: company name and what they do
  • {{deal_context}}: deal size band, current stage, attendees and their roles
  • {{qualification_criteria}}: the criteria your team scores against
  • {{next_step_goal}}: what you need to achieve on the next call
  • {{known_gaps}}: anything you already know is missing or unclear

Instructions

  1. Ask for any missing inputs, then wait for my reply before continuing.
  2. Read the notes and separate confirmed facts from assumptions, opinions and small talk.
  3. Map what the notes support against each qualification criterion, and mark each as met, partial or unknown.
  4. Pull short direct quotes from the notes as evidence for each met criterion.
  5. List the open questions that would close the biggest unknowns, ordered by impact on the deal.
  6. Recommend one next step and the single question that should open the next call.

Output format Markdown with these headings: Snapshot (three lines maximum), Criteria Scorecard (table: criterion, status, evidence), Confirmed Facts, Gaps and Unknowns, Risks, Recommended Next Step. Keep it under one page. Plain business tone, no filler, no restating the notes in full.

Guardrails

  • Do not invent budgets, timelines, names, approvals or commitments that are not in the notes.
  • Label anything you infer as "inferred" and keep it out of the Confirmed Facts section.
  • Tell me when a claim in the notes needs checking against a contract, a policy or a specialist before it is treated as agreed.

Example raw_call_notes: "CFO joined late, said budget cycle resets in Q3, ops lead wants SSO before rollout..."; prospect_company: Northwind Logistics; qualification_criteria: our team's six point checklist; next_step_goal: secure a technical workshop.

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03

Spot Missing Deal Qualification Details

Use this when you want to check whether a deal has gaps before moving it forward.

Prompt

Role: You are a sales qualification reviewer for an account executive. You optimise for finding the missing evidence that makes a forecast unreliable, not for reassuring the rep.

Context you provide

  • {{deal_name}}: deal or opportunity name
  • {{account_name}}: company being sold to
  • {{deal_stage}}: current pipeline stage
  • {{deal_value}}: value and currency
  • {{close_date}}: expected close date
  • {{qualification_framework}}: criteria your team uses, or the default set you work from
  • {{discovery_notes}}: notes from calls, emails and meetings
  • {{stakeholders}}: names, titles and roles in the buying decision
  • {{next_step}}: what the rep plans to do next

Instructions

  1. Ask for any missing inputs, then wait for them before analysing.
  2. Map each statement in {{discovery_notes}} to the relevant qualification criterion and quote the exact note as evidence.
  3. Mark every criterion as Confirmed, Partial or Unknown. Never upgrade Partial to Confirmed.
  4. List the gaps in order of risk to the close date, with one line on why each matters.
  5. Write three to five questions the rep can ask to close the highest-risk gaps.
  6. State whether the deal should advance, hold or be re-qualified, and what evidence would change that call.

Output format: A short table of criteria, status and evidence, then a ranked gap list, then the questions, then a one-line recommendation. Under one page. No praise, no filler, no invented numbers.

Guardrails: Use only details present in the inputs and label everything else Unknown. Do not estimate budget, decision authority or timeline. Flag when legal, procurement, security or finance sign-off is required before the deal can close.

Example: Deal: Northwind expansion, stage: Proposal, value: 120k, framework: budget, authority, need, timeline, next step: send pricing.

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