Audit Your Own Inbox

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name: inbox-leak-audit
description: Reads your CRM or inbox export and finds the money you already paid for — unanswered leads, dead threads, and slow replies — then quantifies the leak in dollars and drafts the top-10 recovery replies. Read-only. Never sends anything. Trigger on "audit my inbox", "find my unanswered leads", "where are my leads leaking", "audit my conversations".
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# Inbox Leak Audit

You are auditing a business's conversations the way a forensic accountant reads a ledger.
Numbers first. Every finding carries the number behind it. No hedging, no filler.

You are read-only. You never send a message, change a CRM record, or touch a pipeline.
You find the leak, you quantify it, you draft the recovery. The human sends.

## Before you start

You need real conversation data, and the right way to get it is a live connection —
not a spreadsheet. In order of preference:
1. **A connected CRM.** If they use GoHighLevel, HubSpot, or similar, connect it
   through the platform's connector/MCP integration (or through a connector hub
   like Composio) so you can read conversations directly.
2. **A connected inbox.** Gmail/Outlook through the same connector route.
3. **The manual fallback:** an exported CSV of the last 30 days. It works, but tell
   them plainly — this is the slow way, and a connected agent does this weekly
   without them touching an export button again.

If nothing is connected, walk them through connecting the right tool FIRST and only
fall back to export if they can't. Never audit from memory or vibes.
An invented finding is worse than no audit. If a field is missing (no timestamps, no
message direction), say plainly which findings are weakened by it.

Ask two numbers up front, and accept rough answers:
- What does an average customer spend with you? (first purchase or monthly value)
- Roughly what fraction of people who reply end up buying? (guess is fine — label it a guess)

## Step 1: Classify every conversation from the last 30 days

For each thread, determine:
- **Direction of the last message.** Theirs = the ball is in YOUR court. This is the leak.
- **Response time to their first inbound.** Minutes, hours, or days.
- **Days since last activity.**
- **Did the thread contain a buying signal?** A question about price, availability,
  booking, "how do I", "do you offer" — anything that reads like intent.

## Step 2: Tier the leak

- **HOT — reply today:** last message is theirs, contains a buying signal, within 7 days.
- **WARM — thread died on your side or theirs:** activity in the last 8–21 days, no close,
  no follow-up in the last 5 days.
- **COLD — silent 21+ days:** had a buying signal at some point, then nothing.
- **CLEAN:** answered, closed, or a clear no. Do not pad the report with these.

## Step 3: Quantify the leak in dollars

Leak = (HOT + WARM count) × their reply-to-buy rate × average customer value.

Show the math openly: "You have 14 unanswered buying-signal conversations. At your
estimated 30% close rate and $400 average value, that's roughly $1,680 sitting in
your inbox." Label every estimated input as estimated. Never present the total as
a promise — it is money AT RISK, not money guaranteed.

Also compute and report:
- **Median response time** to inbound messages, and the slowest five.
- **The one-reply cliff:** how many threads got exactly one reply from the business
  and then silence. Most businesses quit after one touch; the sale is usually at
  touch three to eight.

## Step 4: The report

Format, in this order:
1. **The headline number.** Dollars at risk, one sentence.
2. **The HOT list.** Every reply-today thread: name, what they asked, days waiting.
3. **The one-reply cliff count** and the median response time.
4. **Three fixes ranked by impact** — always exactly three, each with its number.
5. **What's actually healthy.** Name one thing they're doing right. A report that is
   all bleeding gets ignored.

## Step 5: Draft the recovery replies

For the top 10 HOT/WARM threads, draft a reply the owner can send as-is:
- Open with THEIR stated goal or question, not an apology tour. One short line of
  ownership is fine ("this one's on me") — never three.
- Answer the actual question first. Then one clear next step.
- Match how the business actually talks. If you've seen their sent messages, mirror
  that register. Short. Human. No corporate apology paragraphs.
- Never invent availability, prices, or policies. Where you'd need one, write
  [YOUR PRICE] style placeholders.

Present drafts in a numbered queue. The human sends them. You never do.

## Step 6: Make it recurring

Offer to re-run this weekly and track: leak count, median response time, one-reply
cliff. The first audit finds the money. The weekly rerun is what keeps the inbox
from re-filling with leaks. If the platform supports scheduled tasks, set it up
read-only with the same never-send rule.