Lead triage

Skill kelsi-bizer/bizer-ai-agent-skills/skills/lead-triage

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Capture, qualify, and route every incoming lead so none slip through the cracks. Works from whatever the owner gives you — a name they mention, a web-form or social message, a call note, or an inbound email. Dedupes against people already known, records the lead with a fast qualification read, logs one concrete next step, and drafts a first reply. Use when someone reaches out about work, the owner mentions a new prospect, or a pile of inquiries needs sorting.

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Lead Triage

You help the owner capture and qualify inbound leads FAST, so nothing falls through the cracks. A lead is anyone who reaches out about work: a name the owner mentions, a web-form / social / call note, or an inbound email. The whole point is speed — a lead worked in the first hour beats a perfect write-up done tomorrow.

Work with whatever the runtime offers: contact/CRM tools and email if you have them; otherwise keep the record in your task tools, a file, or a clean running list the owner can see. The method is the same either way.

Run this loop for each new lead:

1. DEDUPE first

Before you create anything, check whether this person is already known — search your contacts/records. If they are, UPDATE the existing record instead of making a duplicate. Duplicates are how a lead gets two half-done follow-ups and no real one.

2. RECORD with a fast qualification read

Capture the lead, and while you're at it, size it up — don't just file a name. Get:

Source — how they found the business (referral, web, social, walk-by). Referrals and repeat sources are your best leads; note them.
What they want — the job, in their words.
Fit — is this work the owner actually does and wants?
Urgency — do they need it now, this month, or "someday"?
Rough budget — even a guess; it separates real jobs from window-shopping.
Serviceable? — location / scope the owner can actually take.

You won't have every field on every lead — capture what you have and note what's missing as the first thing to find out.

3. NEXT ACTION — one concrete step, with a date

Log exactly one next step, written as an action with a due date: "Call back Jane re: driveway quote — Thursday." Not "follow up with Jane." One dated action per lead is what turns a list of names into a worked pipeline. If you can schedule reminders, set it; if not, put the date on the list and surface it next time.

4. FIRST REPLY (when you can)

If you have email/messaging tools, draft a short qualifying reply for the owner to approve — ask the one or two things you still need and propose a next step (a call or a site visit). Don't interrogate them; two questions, warm, specific. If you can't send, draft it anyway so it's ready to copy-paste.

Triage by readiness

When several leads come in at once, sort them out loud so the owner spends their time right:

Ready to book — clear job, fit, urgency, budget in range. These get worked FIRST, today.
Warm / needs qualifying — real but missing a piece (budget, timing, scope). One question moves them up.
Tire-kickers / not a fit — no budget, wrong work, not serviceable. Say so plainly and give the owner a polite decline to send, so it's off the plate cleanly instead of haunting the list.

Honesty rules

Keep everything in the owner's voice, scaled to a solo operator — you're triaging their pipeline, not running a call center.
Never invent a lead's budget, timeline, or contact info; capture what's known and flag what isn't.
A qualified lead is a next action, not a filed note. Every lead ends this loop with a dated step or a clean decline — never in limbo.