Sales Desk: Pipeline Review & Deal Health Monitoring

Automate sales pipeline reviews, deal health scoring, and rep coaching signals

Outcomes

  • Surface at-risk deals 2 weeks before they stall
  • Eliminate the Monday morning pipeline spreadsheet assembly
  • Give sales managers a weekly deal health report with specific action items
  • Flag closed-lost patterns so reps stop repeating the same mistakes

Before & After

Before

  • Sales manager spends 2 hours every Monday pulling HubSpot data into a spreadsheet for the pipeline review meeting
  • Deals go dark for weeks before anyone notices; by then the buyer has moved on
  • Closed-lost reasons are vague one-liners entered months after the deal died

After

  • Pipeline report auto-generates overnight with deal health scores, risk flags, and recommended next steps
  • Stalled deals trigger a Slack alert to the rep and manager within 48 hours of last activity
  • Weekly closed-lost digest groups patterns (pricing, timing, competitor, no decision) with specific deal examples

Workflow Map

Trigger Daily sync of HubSpot deal pipeline at 6 AM
step Pull active deals Query HubSpot for all deals in active pipeline stages with associated contacts, companies, and activity history
step Score deal health Calculate a health score per deal based on days in stage, last activity date, email response rate, and meeting cadence
step Flag at-risk deals Identify deals below the health threshold or with no activity in the past 7 days
step Analyze closed-lost patterns Group recently closed-lost deals by reason category and identify recurring patterns across reps
step Generate pipeline report Compile deal health scores, risk flags, stage movement, and closed-lost patterns into the Google Sheets report template
Approval Manager review Slack notification to sales manager with the report link and a summary of high-risk deals before the weekly pipeline meeting
Output Publish weekly pipeline digest Post the pipeline report and closed-lost digest to the sales Slack channel every Monday at 8 AM

Integrations

HubSpot
Gmail
Slack
Google Sheets

Exceptions Handled

  • Deal marked as closed-won but missing a signed contract: flags for verification before including in forecast
  • Contact associated with multiple active deals: de-duplicates and attributes activity to the most recent deal
  • Rep has no active deals in pipeline: excluded from the health report rather than showing misleading zeros
  • HubSpot API rate limit hit during sync: retries on a staggered schedule and alerts via Slack if two consecutive failures
  • Deal stage changed manually after the report was generated: next-day report reflects the correction

7-Day Implementation Timeline

Day 1

Audit existing pipeline process; document deal stages, required fields, and current reporting cadence

Day 2

Connect HubSpot; map deal properties, contact associations, and activity fields to the health score model

Day 3

Configure health scoring rules: stage velocity thresholds, activity recency weights, and risk flag criteria

Day 4

Build the Google Sheets pipeline report template with deal cards, health scores, and trend charts

Day 5

Set up closed-lost pattern analysis and wire Slack notifications for at-risk deal alerts

Day 6

Parallel run: automated report generated alongside the current manual process for comparison

Day 7

Go live; first automated Monday pipeline digest delivered before the sales meeting

Pricing Hint

Sales workflows typically fall within the Grow plan. Teams with 50+ active deals may need Scale.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Days in current stage, days since last activity (email, call, meeting), email response rate from the contact, and whether scheduled next steps exist in HubSpot. You can adjust the weights during onboarding. Book a 15-min Fit Call to review your pipeline.

Yes. The default threshold is 7 days with no activity, but you set the number per stage. Early-stage deals might allow 14 days; negotiation-stage deals might flag after 3. Book a 15-min Fit Call to configure your thresholds.

It complements HubSpot's built-in reports. The difference is that this workflow scores deals, flags risks proactively, and delivers a digest your team actually reads in Slack. HubSpot dashboards show what happened; this tells you what to do about it.

The Google Sheets report can be shared with the full team or restricted to managers. Most teams share it openly so reps can self-correct before the weekly meeting.

How It Works

Every morning, the workflow syncs your active HubSpot pipeline and scores each deal on four signals: how long it has been in its current stage, when the last meaningful activity happened, whether the contact is responding to emails, and whether there is a scheduled next step. Deals that fall below your configured thresholds get flagged, and the assigned rep gets a Slack nudge with the specific deal and a suggested action. On Monday mornings, the system compiles everything into a pipeline digest: deal health scores, stage movement from last week, risk flags, and a closed-lost pattern analysis that groups recent losses by reason.

Why It Matters

Pipeline reviews are only useful if the data is current and the signals are specific. Most sales managers spend the first hour of Monday assembling a spreadsheet, then another hour talking through deals where nobody remembers the last touchpoint. By the time a stalled deal gets attention in the meeting, the buyer has already gone quiet for two weeks. Automated health scoring catches the drift early and pushes the signal to the person who can act on it, not just the person running the meeting.

What You Get on Day Seven

By the end of implementation week, your Monday pipeline review starts with a pre-built digest instead of a blank spreadsheet. The parallel run on Day 6 compares automated scores against your manager’s gut feel to calibrate the model. From that point forward, at-risk deals get flagged within 48 hours, closed-lost patterns surface weekly, and your sales meeting focuses on strategy instead of data assembly.

Ready to automate this workflow?

Book a 15-minute fit call. We will walk through your setup, confirm the integrations, and map out your 7-day go-live plan.

Sales Desk: Pipeline Review & Deal Health Monitoring

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