Sales Pipeline - From Dread to Dominate with AI for DUMMIES - A Growth by Design Cheatsheet

The TLDR Plan

Firstly, you don’t have to read everything here.

It’s designed to be a just in time HOWTO that you can turn into a doc, upload it into a ChatGPT or Claude project, and be the basis of what it tells you to do first, next, and all the way to done.

Feel free to read this though. I wrote this for the enthusiast who likes to get to order, with elegance and learn in the process.

If you were in full time sales, this would elevate you to a rockstar rain maker.

If you’re the founder doing sales yourself, this will help you zero in on the deals that will close and getting them to close faster, vs the tire kickers - so you can get back to doing what you actually want to do.

Here’s what we will cover in this guide, broken into 10 easy to follow parts.

Giddy up.

1. Start With What You Have: Structure the Deal List
   Standardize your list into a table with fields like deal name, stage, next step. Use Littlebird.ai to auto-capture meeting context, emails, Slack messages, and surface it in you…