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Slack Deal Room Monitor

Track which deal rooms are active, which have gone silent, and where unanswered questions are piling up. Keep your pipeline conversations healthy.

Deal visibilityPipeline healthSales coachingTeam alignment

The Challenge

Deal rooms go silent when reps get busy, and leadership has no way to know which deals have stalled conversations. Questions from prospects sit unanswered, internal alignment breaks down, and by the time someone notices, the deal is at risk. Manually checking every deal channel every day does not scale past a handful of open deals.

What This Prompt Does

Track Activity

Search deal room channels for message volume and recency

Find Unanswered Questions

Surface questions that have not received a response

Detect Risk Signals

Flag competitor mentions, budget objections, and timeline concerns

Post Health Report

Send a ranked summary of deal room health to leadership

The Prompt

The Prompt

Task

Monitor Slack deal room channels using @Slack/Search MessagesName it "Slack/Search Messages" and call it with @Slack/Search Messages to track activity levels, surface unanswered questions, flag stale channels, and post a deal room health report using @Slack/Send MessageName it "Slack/Send Message" and call it with @Slack/Send Message. Give sales leadership visibility into which deals have active conversations and which have gone quiet.

Input

The user will provide:

  1. Deal room channels to monitor (e.g., #deal-acme, #deal-globex) or a naming pattern (e.g., all channels starting with "deal-")
  2. Optional: time range to analyze (default: past 7 days)
  3. Optional: a channel to post the health report to (e.g., #sales-leadership, #pipeline-review)
  4. Optional: specific concerns to check for (e.g., unanswered questions, stale deals, competitor mentions)

Example: "Check all deal room channels for activity this week and post a health report to #sales-leadership."

Context

Monitoring Strategy

  1. Use @Slack/Search MessagesName it "Slack/Search Messages" and call it with @Slack/Search Messages to search each deal room channel for recent messages
  2. Analyze message volume, recency, and participants for each deal room
  3. Identify unanswered questions — messages with question marks and no follow-up
  4. Flag channels with no activity in the past 3+ days as potentially stale
  5. Look for risk signals: mentions of competitors, delays, budget concerns, or "push back"

What to Analyze

  • Activity level: Messages per day and trend (increasing, stable, declining)
  • Participant engagement: Who is active and who has gone quiet
  • Unanswered questions: Customer or internal questions without responses
  • Staleness: How long since the last message in each deal room
  • Risk signals: Mentions of competitors, timeline delays, budget issues, or objections
  • Momentum indicators: Next steps discussed, meetings scheduled, documents shared
  • Internal alignment: Are sales, solutions, and leadership all engaged, or is it just one rep?

What Makes a Good Health Report

  • Rank deal rooms from most active to most stale
  • Lead with deals that need attention (stale or risky)
  • Include specific unanswered questions so leadership can follow up
  • Show who was last active in each room
  • Keep it actionable: what should the team do about each deal?

Output

Deal Room Health Report — [Date Range]:

Overview:

  • Total deal rooms monitored: [X]
  • Active (messages in past 3 days): [X]
  • Stale (no messages in 3+ days): [X]
  • At risk (risk signals detected): [X]

Needs Attention: For each stale or at-risk deal room:

  • #deal-[name]: Last message [X days ago] by [person]
  • Unanswered questions: [list]
  • Risk signals: [competitor mention, budget concern, etc.]
  • Suggested action: [follow up, schedule check-in, escalate]

Active Deals: For each active deal room:

  • #deal-[name]: [X] messages this week, [Y] participants
  • Latest activity: [brief summary]
  • Momentum: [positive/neutral/declining]

Unanswered Questions Across All Deals:

  • #deal-[name]: "[question]" — asked by [person] on [date]
  • #deal-[name]: "[question]" — asked by [person] on [date]

Recommendations:

  • Deals to prioritize this week
  • Reps who may need coaching or support
  • Deal rooms that should be archived

Posted via Cotera Deal Room Monitor

Example Usage

Try asking:

  • →"Check all deal room channels for activity this week and post a health report to #sales-leadership"
  • →"Which deal rooms have unanswered questions from the past 3 days?"
  • →"Monitor #deal-acme and #deal-globex for risk signals and stale conversations"