Decide if a deal is actually worth chasing or quietly become a time sink
A deal that's dragged on for months feels too invested-in to drop, which is exactly why it's worth checking.
- Use it for
- Salespeople with a deal that's been in progress a while and needs an honest gut-check.
A deal that's been in the pipeline for months accumulates a kind of inertia — it feels wasteful to drop something already invested in, even when the actual signals (real budget, a real timeline, a real decision-maker engaged) have quietly stopped being there. This prompt checks the real signals directly instead of going on how long the deal has already taken.
When not to use this
For a deal still early and clearly moving, this check isn't useful yet — it's for one that's dragged on long enough to genuinely question.
Did this work?
You have an honest, specific read on whether this deal has real momentum or has quietly become a time sink kept alive by sunk cost.
Tested on claude-opus-5. Evidence status is draft; it moves to battle-tested only on recorded runs, never by hand.