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Follow-Up Inbox, Decoded

A follow-up inbox listing ten customer threads with topics like braids, full service and jollof, each with a timestamp and a green alive dot — Every row is a conversation waiting on one person: you.

"Drafted, awaiting" means awaiting you

The most misunderstood line in the product. When a row says follow-up drafted, awaiting, the tool has done its half — it watched the silence and wrote the next message. The ball is in your court, and every hour it sits there is an hour the lead cools. The inbox isn't a report. It's a queue of taps.

The one move per row

Row says	The one move
follow-up drafted, awaiting	Read it, tweak one word if needed, tap send. Two minutes.
old timestamp (3+ days)	The draft is stale — refresh it with one new fact, then send
replied recently (green dot)	Don't follow up — advance: proposal, price, or booking
dead thread (weeks, no reply)	Close it with a graceful exit line, or park it. Free your queue.

The inbox-zero rule

By evening, every row is in one of three states: sent, scheduled, or closed. Nothing sits "awaiting" overnight. That single habit is the difference between a follow-up system and a follow-up graveyard — because the tool can draft forever, but only you can tap send.

The tool's job is to make sure nothing is forgotten. Your job is five taps a day. That's the whole partnership — and it's why deals stop dying in silence.

Your queue, ready: the Follow-Up Assistant drafts every next message and flags the rows that matter today — open it once a day, tap, done. Open Follow-Up →

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