What arrived
Re: demo follow-up
A prospect went quiet six days after a good demo, and the check-in you meant to send keeps slipping to tomorrow.
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Follow-ups
A prospect goes quiet after a demo and the check-in you meant to send keeps getting bumped by the rest of the day. Beemy drafts the nudge in your voice and times it to land before the silence turns into a lost deal.
On this page
When a deal goes cold
Days pass with no reply, the thread slips further down the inbox, and the moment for a natural check-in (not yet, not too late) is easy to miss entirely.
The example
Illustrative example, built with mock data.
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What arrived
Re: demo follow-up
A prospect went quiet six days after a good demo, and the check-in you meant to send keeps slipping to tomorrow.
Beemy's draft
Re: demo follow-up
A short check-in is drafted in your own voice, warm and specific to what came up in the demo rather than a generic follow-up. It's timed to land now, while the conversation is still easy to pick back up.
You send it as drafted, edit the ask, or hold it another day.
How Beemy handles it
Beemy watches the gap since the last reply against how the deal's actually been moving.
The nudge reads like you wrote it: warm and specific to what was actually discussed, instead of a generic 'just following up'.
The draft is timed to land while the conversation is still recoverable, rather than long after the moment's passed.
You see the draft first. Send as is, edit the ask, or hold it another day.
What you still decide
The honest scope
Reads
Can do
Never
Why timing the nudge is harder than it looks
Too early and it reads as pushy; too late and the deal's already gone cold for good. Getting the gap right takes the same read on the relationship and the conversation's own pace that you'd use yourself, which is exactly what this weighs before it drafts anything.
Questions
It weighs how the conversation's been moving: a fast-moving deal gets a quicker nudge than one that was always slow.
That reply is escalated to you instead of triggering another automatic check-in. A real objection deserves a genuine answer, something no template can fake.
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