The week they checked out
For every lost or slipped deal, the week the buyer stopped moving, and how long it took before the deal slipped. That lead time is how early you could have known.
Every deal you won or lost kept a record of how the buyer bought: who they pulled in, and the week they went quiet. Then it closed and nobody opened it again. Nudge reads them to learn how your buyers buy, then watches your open deals for the same moves.
On your own deals, before the board. Nothing to send beforehand.
Reads your deals where they already live. Nothing new to learn.
The CRM keeps the result and one reason, typed by whoever closed it on the way out. Everything that explains the deal stays where it happened, in the email threads, the calendar, the call notes and the LinkedIn messages. Nobody reads it back, because nobody has the afternoon.
The real reason was in the calendar in week 6. The CRM got the excuse in week 14.
Your won and lost deals are the only data you own that already knows how the story ends. Read side by side, they show how your buyers actually buy.
For every lost or slipped deal, the week the buyer stopped moving, and how long it took before the deal slipped. That lead time is how early you could have known.
The moves your won deals share and your lost ones lack, read from what the buyer did: who they brought in, and when they put a date on a next step.
The names that showed up in won deals before pricing, and were missing from the lost ones until it was too late.
“Budget freeze” set against what the buyer actually did in the weeks before it. Most loss reasons are written after the fact, by the person who lost.
Once you know how your buyers buy, your open deals can be read against it. Which ones will really close in Q4, and when, based on what the buyers are doing now.
| Open deal | What the buyer did this month | The read |
|---|---|---|
| Halcyon€120k | The CFO joined and asked for the order form | Closes in Q4, week of 16 November |
| Marrow€64k | Two meetings declined, no new date | Same shape as week 6. It will slip. |
| Pilcrow€48k | Security review started, sponsor named | Closes in Q4, early December |
| Vantrell€90k | Only your side has written since 2 September | Not a Q4 deal |
Nudge has no app to adopt. What it finds arrives where your team already works, and you act on it there.
The read on each deal lands in the channel your team already reads. Approve or edit the next step from the same message.
The same agents run as MCP tools inside the assistant you already use. Ask about a deal and the evidence comes back with the answer.
A digest, for the people who don’t live in Slack.
For the views that need a board: the rhythm of every deal, and the forecast.
Investors want the next Lovable, or a company in full control of its distribution. If your story is control, you will have to explain why those deals slipped, and above all when they will close. No room for error.
That won’t cut it. You need facts: what buyers actually did.
We go through it together, live. For every deal that slipped, I show you:
Thirty minutes. Nothing to prepare.
Leave your work email. I’ll reply myself with two slots before your board.