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Standard Operating Procedure

Customer-Engagement Prep Pack.

Strategic Dossier + Client GTM Set + LinkedIn + HubSpot → tailored meeting prep, every time, from a fresh chat. The maintenance loop is built in.

Owner · Simon Bennett Version · 1.1 Review · Quarterly Classification · Confidential
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01 · Why this exists

Three problems, one procedure.

The prep pack moves tacit knowledge into durable artifacts and wires every artifact to HubSpot.

Long-running AI chats are expensive coworkers. They accumulate token cost, lose context, and bury tacit knowledge that nobody else on the team can see. The Customer-Engagement Prep Pack replaces that with four inputs you can hand to a fresh chat in five minutes — and a maintenance loop that keeps the inputs sharper over time.

The procedure exists for three reasons. Reduce reliance on mature chats — durable artifacts in SharePoint beat a 200-message thread nobody else can read. Capture each associate's unique knowledge — insider analysis, EDA 3.0 receptivity reads, cultural-impasse observations belong in a dossier any colleague can load into a fresh chat months later. Wire every artifact to HubSpot — linking dossiers and GTM materials to Company / Contact / Deal records compounds the intelligence and positions us for the day HubSpot itself can generate prep on top of the connected corpus.

Operating Principle Fresh chats are cheap when the inputs are good. The prep pack is the inputs.
02 · The four inputs

What goes into the chat.

Two durable, two fresh. Drop one and the prep is generic.

Input 01

Strategic Dossier

Analyst-grade study of a target account. The irreducible house deliverable. Aspire to Intel_Strategic_Dossier_v3.docx as the canonical exemplar.

Durable · SharePoint
Input 02

Client GTM Set

GTM Strategy, Playbook, Displacement Strategy, Target Accounts, Lead-ID Guide, Elevator Pitch, Pitch & Kickoff Decks, SC Cards. Quarter-anchored.

Durable · SharePoint
Input 03

Contact LinkedIn Bio

Full "About," "Experience," and recent activity — verbatim, for every meeting attendee. Refresh per engagement; profiles change.

Fresh per engagement
Input 04

HubSpot Context

Company, Contact, open Deals, last 30 days of activity and notes, prior dossier and GTM versions attached to the record. Live pull.

Fresh per engagement
Why four inputs Each one answers a different question. The dossier answers what is true about this account. The GTM set answers what is our position and play. LinkedIn answers who is the human in the room. HubSpot answers what is the live state of this relationship. Drop one and the prep is generic; combine all four and the prep is specific.
03 · The standing prompt

Copy into a fresh chat.

Four named inputs, five named deliverables. Do not reuse an existing chat.

Standing Prep Prompt You are helping me prepare for a customer engagement. I am providing four inputs. Read all four before producing anything. INPUT 1 — STRATEGIC DOSSIER (attached): [attach <Account>_Strategic_Dossier_v<N>.docx] INPUT 2 — CLIENT GTM SET (attached): [attach the active GTM Strategy, Playbook, and any displacement / target-account material from Clients/<Client>/GTM] INPUT 3 — CONTACT LINKEDIN BIO (pasted): [paste the full LinkedIn bio of each meeting attendee] INPUT 4 — HUBSPOT CONTEXT (pasted or pulled via connector): [paste Company + Contact + open Deals + recent activity + notes from HubSpot, or instruct the chat to fetch it via the HubSpot connector if available] ENGAGEMENT DETAILS: Meeting type [discovery / demo / negotiation / QBR / executive sync]. Date and duration. Attendees from our side. Stated agenda. Our objective. DELIVERABLE: Produce (a) a one-page exec brief on the account and the specific people in the room; (b) three discovery questions calibrated to where this account sits in the GTM thesis; (c) two anticipated objections and prepared responses; (d) the single most important thing to land in this meeting; (e) a follow-up plan keyed to HubSpot deal stage.

The structure isn't decorative. Four named inputs with explicit roles prevents the model from collapsing them into mush. Asking for a one-page brief, three questions, two objections, one priority, and a follow-up is concrete enough that the output is usable as-is. Anchoring the follow-up to HubSpot deal stage closes the loop — the prep produces the next CRM action, not just talking points.

04 · Procedure

Before, at, after.

≥ 24h out, in the room, ≤ 48h after. Each step has a HubSpot consequence.

Before the meeting (≥ 24 hours out)

  1. Confirm the account is dossiered. Open Target_Accounts / <Account> / 05_Internal_Enablement. If a current Strategic Dossier is there, proceed. If not, escalate to the dossier owner; for prospects without a dossier, prepare a stub from the template and flag the gap.
  2. Run the opportunistic field-intelligence sweep if the dossier is > 30 days old and the account has had material HubSpot activity since the last refresh. This is part of the four-input assembly, not a separate task.
  3. Confirm the client GTM set is current. GTM Strategy and Playbook should be dated within the current quarter. If not, escalate to the client account lead before the meeting.
  4. Pull each attendee's LinkedIn bio. Full "About," "Experience," recent activity. Into prep notes — not SharePoint.
  5. Pull the HubSpot context. Via connector or export. Note duplicates and hygiene issues, but redact those from any client-facing artifact.
  6. Open a fresh AI chat. Not a reused one. Paste the standing prompt and attach / paste the four inputs.
  7. Generate the prep brief, then critique it. The model is a force multiplier on the inputs, not a substitute for judgment. Adjust where it has missed the dossier's insider read.

At the meeting

After the meeting (≤ 48 hours)

  1. Log activity in HubSpot. Meeting note, attendees, key takeaways, next steps with dates and owners. Update deal stage if warranted. Field intelligence goes in the note body — this is the input that feeds the next dossier maintenance pass.
  2. Decide: Path A or Path B for each insight (see §05). Judgments go to the dossier directly. Facts go to HubSpot and the next sweep promotes them.
  3. If the prep was unusually strong or weak, note it in the SOP feedback log. Continuous improvement of the standing prompt depends on field signal.
05 · Maintenance loop

Two paths. Two triggers.

Dossiers decay without a maintenance loop. The loop is half the value of the SOP.

The maintenance principle Facts go to HubSpot. Judgments go to the dossier directly. The sweep reconciles the two.
Path A · Direct edit

A new analytical read, refined thesis, or story worth a callout.

The Aicha Evans and Hiren Majmudar mini-cases in Intel 4B are Path A outputs; so is the NVIDIA Wafer Incident callout in 4A. Open the dossier, find the section (almost always an "A" sub-section), write in house voice, version-bump per §6.9 of the full SOP, save, re-link to HubSpot.

Path B · HubSpot-first

A fact or signal — a hire, a budget, an org shuffle, a roadmap shift.

Log it in the HubSpot meeting note. No tag required — the sweep prompt can identify dossier-worthy notes from content alone. The note attaches to the Company / Contact / Deal record and is automatically in scope for the next sweep.

Which path? A useful test: if someone read the insight in five years, would they want to read it in the dossier (Path A), or would they want to know it happened on a specific date with a specific contact (Path B)? Judgments are timeless and belong in the dossier. Facts are dated and belong in HubSpot until the sweep promotes them.

Two triggers

06 · One diagram

The whole system on one page.

Prep flow along the top. Maintenance loop along the bottom. The return arrow is why this compounds.

PREP FLOW · ASSEMBLE → ENGAGE → LOG THE FOUR INPUTS 01 Strategic Dossier 02 Client GTM Set 03 LinkedIn Bio 04 HubSpot Context Fresh AI chat Standing prompt §4.1 Never reuse a chat Prep brief 1-pg brief · 3 Qs · 2 obj. 1 priority · follow-up Save brief, not chat Customer engagement Discovery · demo QBR · negotiation LOG ≤ 48h MAINTENANCE LOOP · FIELD INTEL → DOSSIER HUBSPOT FIELD INTELLIGENCE Meeting notes · activity Hires · budgets · org shifts DECIDE PATH A · DIRECT EDIT Judgments → straight into dossier PATH B · SWEEP-PROMOTED Facts → next sweep promotes DURABLE ARTIFACT Strategic Dossier v3 → v3.1 → v4 the compounding bet — every update sharpens the next prep ONE SYSTEM · TWO FLOWS Two paths converge on the same durable artifact, and the artifact keeps getting sharper. Prep flow: four inputs → fresh chat → brief → meeting → log. Maintenance loop routes field intel back — Path A direct, Path B via sweep — both feeding the dossier.

Figure 1. The Prep Pack and the Maintenance Loop — one system, two flows.

07 · Print-and-go

The pre-meeting checklist.

One screen. Run it before every external customer engagement.

Strategic Dossier exists and is current (≤ 1 quarter old or material change captured) Target_Accounts/<Account>/05_Internal_Enablement/
Opportunistic sweep run if dossier > 30 days old and account has had HubSpot activity since Part of the four-input assembly
Client GTM Strategy and Playbook current within the quarter Clients/<Client>/GTM/
Each meeting attendee's LinkedIn bio captured Fresh — verbatim into prep notes
HubSpot Company / Contact / open Deals / 30-day activity and notes exported Note duplicates; redact for any client-facing output
Fresh AI chat opened — not a reused chat Mature chats are expensive coworkers
Standing prompt pasted with all four inputs §03 above
Output reviewed and adjusted against insider read The model is a multiplier, not a substitute for judgment
Exec brief, three questions, two objections, one priority, follow-up plan extracted Save the brief, not the chat
Engagement logged in HubSpot post-meeting (≤ 48h) with field intelligence in the note body Feeds the next sweep
Path A vs. Path B decision made for each insight Judgments to dossier; facts to HubSpot
Dossier version-bumped if material new intelligence captured §6.9 / 7.5 in the full SOP
08 · Non-negotiables

Client scoping & AI discipline.

Cross-client data leakage is the single largest avoidable failure mode in a multi-client agency.

Client scoping rules

AI / tooling discipline

09 · One closing thought

What this is really for.

The structure is what survives the automation.

Closing note from the author The discipline this SOP encodes is foundational work. The compounding payoff is real — every meeting prep that uses the pack is faster than the last, and every dossier update makes every future prep sharper. The maintenance loop is what turns the dossiers from static artifacts into living instruments. The rate of change in tooling means parts of this procedure will be automated within months. The structure — four inputs, durable artifacts, HubSpot-wired, fresh chat per engagement, field intelligence sweeping back into the dossier — is what survives that automation.