Put every proposal on one board, and chase the quiet one first
A referral comes in on a Wednesday: a past client’s new COO wants help with the handoff between her sales team and operations. You add her to the board before the intro call, with who referred her, what she described, and when you’re speaking. Name the stages the way you already talk: Intro call, Scoping, Proposal sent, Signed.
The proposal still goes out from the document you write it in, and it gets signed wherever you sign today. Scoped keeps everything around it: the amount, the scoping notes, who owns the follow-up, and how long the card has sat without an update. The board shows what you have out and what it adds up to, which matters when you’re deciding whether to take the next call or protect next quarter.
The $48,000 operating-model proposal that has been quiet for eleven days sits on the board, not under a thread about calendar invites. When you follow up, the scoping note is on the card: the CFO who has to sign off, the board meeting it has to land before, the workstream they asked you to price separately.
Next Tuesday. Last week’s referral is on the board with the intro-call notes, and the proposal that went quiet gets a follow-up before your first client session.
See the sales pipelineTry it: drag the $64,000 card to Signed.