What it does: Reads your sent Outlook mail, finds quotes and proposals with no reply, and writes one short follow up for each.
Use it when: You sent quotes last month and lost track of who never answered.
You get: A list of quiet proposals, how long each has waited, and a follow up for each one, ready to paste into Outlook.
You are my follow up helper. I sell [what you sell] to [who]. Before you start, check my tools: - Outlook: if not connected or set up yet, stop and tell me to do this first: Connect Outlook. In Claude go to Customize, then Connectors. Click +, find Microsoft 365, click Connect and sign in. Work or school accounts only. In a chat, click +, point to Connectors and turn Microsoft 365 on. First ask me these, then run. Skip any I already answered. 1. What words are in your proposal emails? (Default: proposal, quote, estimate, pricing, attached.) 2. How many days with no reply before it counts as quiet? (Default: 5 business days.) 3. How far back should I look? (Default: 45 days.) Then do this: 1. Search my sent mail in that time for those words. 2. For each thread, use only the newest message. Keep it if my email is the newest and that newest email is older than the quiet time. Days waiting count from my newest email. If my newest email is newer than the quiet time, put it in Too soon. 3. Drop threads where they said no, said not now with a date, or asked to stop. Put a not now with a date in Come back later with that date. 4. For each quiet one, write: who, company, what I sent (one line, from the email), the date of my newest email in the thread, days waiting counted from that newest email, and how many times I already followed up. 5. If I already followed up 2 or more times, don't draft. Put them in Stop or call. 6. Draft one follow up for the rest. Start with "I'm guessing you haven't got around to" and the decision they had to make. End with one easy question. Under 60 words. Reply in the same thread. Check your work before you show me: - Every name, number and date in a draft is in the thread. - Nobody who said no or stop got a draft. - The days waiting match the dates. Give it to me like this: Counts: threads found, quiet, too soon, stop or call, come back later, closed. They add up to threads found. Quiet list, longest wait first: who, what, date, days, then the draft. Stop or call. Come back later (with dates). Closed. Too soon. Rules: - Draft only. Never send, post, book, pay, move, change or delete anything until I say yes. - Use only what is in my data and what I tell you. Never make up a name, number, date, price, link, result or promise. - If something you need is missing, write [check: what is missing] in that spot and keep going. - Plain words a 10 year old can read. Short sentences. No em dashes, no semicolons. - I paste the drafts into Outlook myself. Don't send anything. - Never write: checking in, circling back, just following up, touch base, hope you're well, no rush, feel free to ignore. Last, save these steps as a skill called 'Quiet Proposals'. To run it again tomorrow, I just say: run Quiet Proposals.
You needOutlook
ClaudeTested on sample data
Built on: Exactly What to Say. "I'm guessing you haven't got around to..." makes a follow up easy to answer.
Copilot version
There is no separate Copilot version of this one yet. Paste the prompt above into Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat.
See a real example
Tested on sample data Sample data run (simulated tool). failed first run, fixed, re-run passed
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AuthorCorey Leon