ShurAI · Internal Memo
Prospect Tracking Draft · 2026-04-17
Memo — For the 1:15pm Sync

Prospect-Tracking System — Where We Are

Two Bases, three note types, one funnel. The schema is live; two prospects are in it. The workflow for "who updates what when" is still loose. Here's what to decide today.

2026-04-17 Audience: Limore / Diana / Nuri Author: Jonny
TL;DR

We have a two-base Obsidian system that tracks prospects end-to-end: from cold outbound and share-sourced leads, through value delivery, feedback, and conversion. Schema is coherent. Hasbro and truData are populated. It works — but it's under-populated and nobody has a logging habit yet.

01 · What exists

Two Bases, one pipeline

BaseLocationWhat it tracks
Prospect-Pipeline.base projects/shur/ The funnel: Idea → Outreach Planned → Value Delivered → Follow-up → Converting → Won. Eight views including Kanban, Temperature Board, and Share-Sourced Prospects.
Share-Feedback-Pipeline.base projects/shur/ The bridge: every artifact share, every feedback event, every conversion signal. Eight views including Awaiting Feedback, Conversion Pipeline, Lead Magnet Tracking, Solicitation Rules.

Three note types power it

Flow (share-triggered intake)

Team shares artifact
  → Slack log: "Shared [artifact] v[X] with [person] via [channel]"
  → Claude creates artifact_share note
  → Feedback comes back
  → Claude creates feedback_event note + InfraNodus feedback graph
  → If feedback provider shows prospect signal
  → Prospect note created with artifact_source + share_history
  → Enters Prospect-Pipeline.base at stage "Value Delivered"

This pattern was validated on Kevin Mowrer reviewing CI-2026-03 v1 → his 9 feedback comments produced v2 → identified him as a connector to Tom McGrath and Jennifer Dowdall.

02 · What's populated today

ProspectFolderStageScoreNotes
Hasbro projects/shur/hasbro/ Value Delivered 16/20 Full scaffolding — INDEX, engagement_cycle, prospect-engagement, prospect-intake, source_docs, transcripts, deliverables-v2. Warm (Kevin Mowrer back-channel).
truData projects/shur/trudata/ Value Delivered (draft) 15/20 Scaffolded today. Cold outbound. Draft brief exists; needs canonical consolidation before share.

Shares logged: 1 (Kevin Mowrer / CI-2026-03)
Feedback events logged: 1 (Kevin Mowrer / CI-2026-03)

Named prospects referenced in value-flows/prospect-pipeline.md but not yet in Bases: Paramount (Rebecca Mall, Mike Benson), Hornet, Habit Finder, Rob Citula / Ether Facts.

03 · What's working

04 · What's loose (for discussion)

The infrastructure is real. The habit is the gap.

Population gap

Named prospects in value-flows/prospect-pipeline.md (Paramount, Hornet, Habit Finder, Rob Citula) aren't in Bases. Either we batch-migrate them in, or we accept that the active pipeline is just Hasbro + truData for now. Recommend: batch-migrate the warm ones this week.

"Who updates it when" isn't codified

The Slack-trigger pattern ("Shared X with Y") works in theory but nobody has a habit yet. Options:

  • Limore / Diana / Nuri commit to logging in a dedicated channel
  • Build a Slack slash command that writes the share note directly
  • Treat it as a weekly sync item: "what got shared this week?"

Outbound vs. share-sourced motion

Share-note schema covers email, Slack, in-person, LinkedIn, meeting — but we don't have a separate outbound workflow distinct from share-sourced. Hasbro is back-channel sourced (Kevin). truData is cold outbound. Pipeline handles both but doesn't differentiate the motion. Question: do we need an "outbound register" separate from the share log?

Scoring consistency

Both prospects score 15-16/20. Narrow band. Either our rubric is conservative (all prospects look similar) or the criteria need tightening (Gap Depth / Urgency / Fit / Budget, each 0-5). Proposal: review the rubric once we have 5+ prospects to compare against.

Canonical v1 artifact gating

Both prospects have "draft" deliverables with multiple variants (Hasbro: v1/v2; truData: terminal + Claude Desktop). We don't have a "canonical v1 declared" checkpoint between draft and share. Proposal: add a canonical_version: vN field to engagement_cycle that the team explicitly sets before any share is logged.

Dashboard surface

Nobody is opening Prospect-Pipeline.base daily. Either it's not surfaced prominently enough, or the team isn't the audience for it (it might be more an orchestration tool for Claude than a human daily-driver). Question: what's the right weekly rhythm — Monday standup? Friday review?

05 · Integration points already live

06 · Recommended next steps (post-meeting)

  1. Today: Finalize canonical v1 of truData brief; log the first cold-outbound share event when it sends.
  2. This week: Batch-migrate Paramount / Hornet / Habit Finder / Rob Citula into the pipeline as prospect notes.
  3. This week: Pick a logging rhythm — weekly sync item vs. dedicated Slack channel vs. slash command.
  4. Next 2 weeks: Validate whether the "inarticulate firm" pattern is a repeatable wedge across cold-outbound prospects beyond truData.