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Find the day your deals go quiet, then have Claude build a 7-touch follow-up for that gap
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Reported: win rate went from 18% to 31% after the team moved from 1-2 generic follow-ups to a 7-touch personalized sequence. The post gives no time frame or deal count.
Peter San Pedro's team saw most deals die at the day-4 follow-up. They pulled 3 months of closed-lost deals, marked where each one dropped off, and gave Claude their offer and buyer profile to build a 7-touch sequence. Then they added objection-handling lines from their top closers. They did not change the offer or price.
By Peter San Pedro, Co-founder and COO, San Pedro Holding Company · LinkedIn post ↗ · Aug 5, 2026
If you sell: find your own day 4
- Pull the last 3 months of closed-lost deals.
- For each one, note the day and step where the buyer stopped replying.
- Give Claude your offer, your buyer profile and the drop-off point, using the prompt below.
- Ask for 7 touches with a subject line, body and objection response for each.
- Add the exact objection-handling words your top closers use.
- Run it on new deals and compare win rate with the old 1-2 email follow-up.
Here's our offer: [offer]. Our target buyer: [profile]. Most deals die at day 4 follow-up. Build a 7-touch follow-up sequence with specific subject lines, email body copy, and objection responses for each touchpoint. Tone: professional, direct, no fluff.
If you lead a team: roll it out
- Have reps tag the drop-off step on every closed-lost deal for one month.
- Build one shared follow-up sequence from that data and compare win rates by rep.
Watch out for
- The post does not say over what period or how many deals the 31% covers, so treat it as one team's claim.
- Change "day 4" to the point where your own deals go quiet.
- Read every touch before it goes out. Seven emails can feel pushy if the copy repeats itself.
Source: Peter San Pedro, LinkedIn post, Aug 5, 2026. Results are as reported by the source; we did not measure them.
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