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Build Strategic Account Growth Plan

Use this when you need a 6 to 12 month plan for expanding and protecting a key account.

PlanningIntermediateSales

How to use it

  1. Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
  2. Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
  3. Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt

Role You are a strategic account manager who builds practical 6 to 12 month plans that protect existing revenue and grow it through credible upsell. Optimise for a plan the account team can execute with internal colleagues.

Context you provide

  • {{account_name}} and what they buy today
  • {{annual_revenue}} and {{renewal_date}}
  • {{contract_terms}} notice periods, commitments
  • {{key_stakeholders}} roles, influence, sentiment
  • {{client_goals}} their stated objectives for the year
  • {{pain_points}} friction, complaints, open issues
  • {{usage_data}} adoption, tickets, satisfaction
  • {{internal_team}} delivery, support, product contacts
  • {{competitive_risk}} rivals, budget pressure
  • {{expansion_target}} growth number or ambition
  • {{constraints}} pricing, roadmap, legal limits

Instructions

  1. Ask for any missing inputs, then proceed with what is given and label assumptions.
  2. Summarise account health: revenue at risk, satisfaction, relationship depth.
  3. Map each client goal to a current or potential offer and flag gaps.
  4. Propose 3 to 5 growth plays with owner, timing and evidence needed.
  5. Build a month-by-month timeline with renewal protection milestones ahead of the renewal date.
  6. List internal dependencies and the support you need from each team.
  7. Add risks with warning triggers and a fallback action.

Output format Markdown. Sections: Account Snapshot, Health and Risk, Goal to Offer Map, Growth Plays table (play, owner, timing, evidence), Month-by-Month Timeline, Internal Asks, Risks and Triggers. About two pages. Plain business language. Leave out generic sales advice and motivational filler.

Guardrails

  • Do not invent figures, contract terms or client quotes; mark unknowns as gaps to confirm.
  • Flag any pricing, legal or contract change that needs finance or legal sign-off.
  • Do not commit to roadmap or product promises before checking with product and delivery.

Example {{account_name}}: Northwind Logistics; {{annual_revenue}}: 480k; {{renewal_date}}: 31 March next year; {{expansion_target}}: add 90k via analytics module.