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Agency Pipeline

One board for everyone your agency is going after. Each prospect arrives with the research already done — the gap in their services, the people worth writing to, three angles in — so you write the pitch and send it from your own mailbox.

Writing the pitch

Open a prospect and you already know what to say.

The gap in their services, who to write to, what they run, the angle — it is on screen the moment you open them. Type @, drop in your opener, change what this one needs. They can tell you actually looked at their business.

7 lines3 gaps4 people1 read3 playsday 0day 0day 3day 6What they selltheir service lines, read off their siteWhat they don'tthe gap you sell intoWho to write tothe people, and their emailsWhat they runplatform, host, speed, ads runningThe anglethree named ways in@Your emailwith all of it in front of you1You pick the angleone of the three, from what they're missing2One @ drops in your openerwith its follow-ups and its documents3The names fill inthe company, the person, your calendar linkand your sign-offThe openerfrom your own mailboxYour attachmentsthe pitch report and your filesFollow-up 1a nudge a few days laterFollow-up 2if they still haven't answered
Write your opener once. After that it is an @ and a couple of edits.
Their name, your calendar link and your sign-off are already in.
The first email carries the report you built for them — theirs to open, forward, and hand to whoever else decides.

Three angles, with the reasoning

The gap in their service list, the people and the plays were worked out before you opened them. Which one fits is your call.

Name your templates anything

@plumber, @medspa, @intro — name them the way you think. They belong to the agency, so whoever writes next starts from the opener that already worked.

The blanks are marked for you

Anything you left to fill in for this prospect is highlighted in the email, and Send waits until they are done.

Follow-ups

Every prospect gets their own follow-ups.

Write them beside the opener and say what day each one goes. They arrive as replies on the same thread, so your prospect sees one conversation. The moment they answer, the rest are cancelled.

Their inbox· one conversation, four messages deep
Radiant Performanceday 0
sent from your mailbox · the report attached
Re: Radiant Performanceday 3
follow-up 1
Re: Radiant Performanceday 4
“Yes, I will get on a short call.”
Re: Radiant Performanceday 6
follow-up 2 — scheduled
Re: Radiant Performancenever sent
cancelled — they answered
Your board
Waiting on them
Nothing due
follow-up 2 of 2 goes day 6
Replied
Needs you
the whole reply is on the row
Open in Gmail
Lands on that exact conversation, in the mailbox it went out from.
A bounce or a no does the same thing.
When somebody answers, the whole reply is on the row — and you write back as you, from the address it went out on.

They see one thread

Every follow-up threads under the opener with its own Re: line, so it reads as a conversation they are already in.

An answer cancels the rest

A reply, a bounce or a no cancels every follow-up still scheduled — on the board and in the record, straight away.

Their reply, in full

What they wrote lands on the row exactly as they wrote it, with a link straight to that conversation in your mailbox.

The board

Sit down once and work twenty of them.

Every prospect on the board is grouped by what it needs from you next, and each one carries its own research. You are not looking anything up between emails. You open, you write, you send, you move on.

This morning3 to write2 to write1 to writeall done
Reliant Plumbing
spending on ads, but their site never says what they do
Write the openerSent · today
NH Strategic Marketing
ecommerce clients they are not set up to serve
Write the openerSent · today
It's A Secret Med Spa
they answered you yesterday
Open in Gmail
SC Digital
their AI search work overlaps what you sell
Write the openerSent · today
Skin Envy Austin
opener went Tuesday, follow-up goes Friday
Nothing due
Twenty prospects in a sitting — and every one of them got a different email.

One action per row

Write the opener, open the reply, or nothing due. You are never deciding what to do with a prospect, only doing it.

Ready, waiting, replied

The board sorts itself by what each prospect needs next, so the ones that need you this morning are the ones at the top.

Pick up where you stopped

Close it mid-list and come back after lunch. What you did is done, and what is left is still waiting in order.

What's on the board

From the moment a prospect lands on it to the day they sign.

The board

Grouped by what to do next

Ready to send, Waiting on them, Replied, Won, Snoozed, Lost. A prospect moves when something actually happens — an email goes out, a reply comes back. A reply surfaces even on one you snoozed.

One action per rowMoves on its ownSnoozed rows still surface

Open a prospect

Just what you need to write

Why them, the people you could write to with one already picked, what they run, and the angle. Anything you learn about them later is there next time you open it, and the whole file is one click away.

Why themWho to write toWhat they run

The angle

Three angles, and why each one

Three named plays with the reasoning behind each: the referral relationship their client mix points to, the service line that overlaps yours, the thing their site never mentions. You pick one and write from it.

What they sellWhat they don'tWhere you fit

Your mailbox

Your prospect gets an email from you

It leaves your own address, sits in your Sent folder, and their reply comes back to your inbox where you would look for it anyway. Add more than one address and pick which one a board sends from.

Your addressYour Sent folderMore than one

Sending

Sends at a pace your domain likes

The board paces the sending on its own so your agency's address stays in good standing. You start the outreach and that part looks after itself.

Nothing to setNothing to watchIt just runs

Follow-ups

Follow-ups that cancel on a reply

Write them beside the opener and say how many days after the send each goes. They arrive as replies on the same thread, so the prospect sees one conversation. The moment they answer, bounce or opt out, the ones still scheduled are cancelled.

Same threadDays, not datesCancelled by a reply

@templates

Your opener, dropped in with an @

Write an opener you like, name it, and it is kept with its follow-ups and the documents that go with it. Type @ on any prospect and all of it lands, with their company, the person's first name, your booking link and your sign-off already in. Anything you left to fill in for this one is marked in the email.

Opener + follow-upsYour documents tooNamed by you

Attachments

Your pitch report goes attached

The pitch report you built for them arrives with the first email — theirs to open, forward, and hand to whoever else decides. Tick any of your own documents alongside it: a services deck, a portfolio, an intro. Uploaded once, there on every prospect.

The report you builtYour services deckOn every prospect

Replies

The whole reply, and it's yours to answer

When someone answers, everything they wrote lands on the row, with a link that opens that exact conversation in the mailbox it went out from. You answer it yourself, as you.

The whole replyOpen in GmailYours to answer

The record

One record per person, account-wide

Everyone your agency has written to is one record, whichever list they came from — so a prospect you contacted from another pull is not contacted again. A bounced address sends the row back to Ready asking for a better one.

One per personAcross every listBounces come back

The marks

You say when it's won

Mark it Won when they sign. Snooze sets a prospect aside until a date you name. Remove clears it off the board without losing anything — working that prospect again from Agency Lead Gen brings it straight back.

Won and LostSnoozed untilRemoved, not deleted

One place

Always the current picture

What you learned about them this morning is on the row this afternoon. One link takes you back to the whole file in Agency Lead Gen — the ads they run, the site read, the reviews, the spec ads, the report.

Always currentNothing to re-enterOne click back

Run the pipeline from a conversation

Ask what needs you, have a prospect read back before you write, add new ones, and keep the record straight — all from a conversation.

Works inClaude.ai (web)Claude CoworkClaude Code— no API key needed.

See what needs you

Ask Claude to

“What's on my agency pipeline today — has anyone come back?”

Read up, then write

Ask Claude to

“Read me Reliant Plumbing — why them, who to write to, and what they run.”

Put prospects on the board

Ask Claude to

“Put the enriched plumbers from my Austin list on the agency pipeline.”

Keep the record straight

Ask Claude to

“They said yes — mark Reliant Plumbing won, and note the intro call is Thursday.”

Open the board and write the first one.

Every prospect you send over arrives with its research, its people and its report — open one and start writing.

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