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Quote Follow-Up

Every quote you send gets chased on a set cadence until it's signed, declined, or the cadence runs out.

Built · not live yet

Built and tested · writes to a local outbox, delivers nothing

The flow

4 stages · 1 gate

STAGE 01

Trigger

Built

A quote goes out. The follow-up cadence is scheduled from that moment, not from when you remember.

Clock starts at send · cadence set per quote
STAGE 02

The Gate

Awaiting approval

Nothing sends until a human says go. Every draft, every time.

Approve, edit or kill · decision logged with timestamp
STAGE 03

Send

Built

Each follow-up goes out on the cadence you set, from your address, each one a little shorter than the last.

Cadence enforced · stops on reply
STAGE 04

Track

Built

Marks each quote signed, declined, or silent — and stops chasing the moment it lands in any of the three.

Signed · declined · silent

Why this matters

A quote nobody chases is a quote you paid to produce and then threw away.

Pricing a job properly takes real time — the site visit, the measurements, the write-up. Then it goes out and sits there. The customer meant to reply, got busy, and the silence gets read as a no when it usually isn't one. The second and third follow-up are where most of the signed work actually comes from, and they're exactly the ones that don't get sent, because chasing feels like begging when you do it by hand. On a schedule it isn't chasing, it's just admin. Knowing a quote is definitively dead is worth something too: a clear declined beats an open tab in your head for three weeks.

Built on the same engine that's sent 797 emails for ClipZone since June 2026.1

Notes

  1. Total emails sent from the outbound system for ClipZone between June 2026 and 23 September 2026. Counts sends, not recipients. This system is not deployed and has sent nothing of its own.

What it refuses to send

A follow-up cannot contradict the quote.

The figure in a chase is checked against the figure you quoted, every time, before it can be approved.

  • BlockedA price that disagrees with the quote. It is misleading, and it invites an argument about what was agreed.
  • BlockedA deadline the quote doesn't actually have. Manufactured urgency is exactly what consumer law treats as misleading.
  • BlockedOffering to drop the price. Re-pricing is a conversation, not an email a scheduler sends.
  • BlockedChasing a quote already signed or declined — the fastest way to lose the next one.
  • FlaggedNo question to answer, no quote reference, or a later chase that got longer instead of shorter.

The same amount written differently — with or without a comma or decimals — is accepted. A checker that blocks correct figures on formatting teaches people to click past it.

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