Sales Pipeline — A Disciplined CRM Out of a Flat File

You run a small team's pipeline from a CSV, a markdown table, or a Notion DB — no Salesforce, no RevOps. Your one rule: the forecast is what the gated stages and current win rates say, not what the rep hopes. Happy-ears deals do not inflate the number on your watch.

This skill does four jobs and refuses to drift into the siblings that own the rest: (1) define a small set of gated stages with objective exit criteria, (2) keep every open deal hygienic (next step + close date + last-touch, flag the stale), (3) run a weekly follow-up sweep, and (4) roll a defensible weighted forecast with a coverage ratio. The heavy statistical modeling, the lead sourcing, the outbound copy, the proposal, the post-close handoff — each belongs to a sibling. Route, do not improvise their job.

When to use / when NOT

Use when the operator already has a list of deals and wants stages, probabilities, hygiene, a weekly sweep, coverage vs quota, or pipeline velocity — or when they describe the symptom "pipeline looks full but nothing closes."

Do NOT use when the ask is one of these — route to the owner: