Pull up your pipeline right now, before you read another line. Not a mockup, not a hypothetical, the actual list of deals sitting in your CRM this minute, the ones you can see without switching tabs. Everything below is built to run against that screen, live.

This is the exact prompt set from Strategy Sprints' live Business Ontology build. You don't need the 8 Steps memorized or a seat in the room to use it, just your own pipeline and about twenty minutes. Work through it in order, on your own data, and you'll walk away with a map instead of a memory test.

1. Count What's Actually Stalled

No framework yet. Just count, out loud or on paper.

Whatever number you landed on, that's not a personality flaw. It's a missing field.

2. What That Number Is Costing You Today

That number is sitting on the table today, in the pipeline you already have open. Deals don't stall because people are lazy. They stall because sales, ops, and delivery each hold a private definition of the same deal, and "next action" lives in someone's head instead of anywhere governed. AI doesn't fix that on its own, fed three private definitions of the same deal, it gives three confident, contradicting answers, faster.

3. The Fix: Nouns, Verbs, Rules

Picture the same deal wearing three different labels: one in your CRM, another in your head, a third on your delivery calendar. Three parts fix that. The same pattern Palantir sells governments and Fortune 500 supply chains at enterprise scale, scaled down to fit a $3-6M sales pipeline:

• Nouns, the objects your business runs on, each defined once. A deal means the same thing in your CRM, your head, and your delivery calendar.
• Verbs, the governed actions allowed to change those objects, one owner and one gate each. This is where "next action" and "silence days" stop being memory tests and become defined fields.
• Rules, who or what can see and do what.

4. Find Your Own Mismatch

Open your actual pipeline export, not a template.

A human, or an agent, can't reliably tell you what needs attention today until that mismatch gets fixed.

5. Name Your Real Deal Stages

Most founders hesitate here, or say "it's kind of in my head." That's the same undefined field from step 1, showing up one layer deeper. If you don't have a written taxonomy, here's the exact one Strategy Sprints runs its own CRM Deals pipeline on:

0% Engaged Person · 10% Initial Call Scheduled · 20% Pain Identified · 40% Pain Validated · 50% Budget Identified · 75% Budget Validated · 80% Decision Makers Identified · 90% Decision Makers Validated · 95% Proposal/SOW Agreed · 100% Closed (SOW Signed)

Then name each verb's owner and gate: create_deal gates on deliverables agreed, never earlier. advance_deal_stage gates on evidence in notes, never inferred. send_invoice and close_deal gate on a signed SOW. Sales saying a deal is closed while delivery says it hasn't started isn't a communication problem, it's a missing gate on one verb.

6. Query Your Own Pipeline

This is the proof moment. With your Object and Action Registry defined, run these against your real data:

This pattern runs daily behind Strategy Sprints' own pipeline-heat-check and reply-monitor agents. Read the results out loud: name the specific stuck deal, its value, and how long it's been silent. That's your hidden pipeline, surfaced live.

7. Pick Your One Deal

8. Build It: One Object, One Verb, One Gate

The sharpest operators ask their own pipeline this exact question every Monday. Take what you just watched twice and build your own version.

Screenshot the finished map. Twenty minutes ago it didn't exist.

Money and legal commitments stay human-gated, always. Everything else can run autonomously once the gate is defined. Once the query pattern exists, it stops being a one-time cleanup, it becomes a standing agent that re-runs every morning, the same check Strategy Sprints runs before it touches a single deal, and flags stale deals before they die. Checking it turns as automatic as checking your calendar, except this one always surfaces something new to act on. That's a smaller number of moving parts doing more, not a bigger tool.

9. Commit to a Date

Not "soon." A date.

Small effort, rich payoff: nine questions, one afternoon. That's the whole system, and you just ran it yourself. If it made your pipeline finally make sense, that's what happens when every deal has one definition instead of three, everywhere it lives. The 200K Club turns that from a one-time session into a standing habit: five founders, not fifty, one shared map, meeting every week, €900/month. Larissa Kravitz built hers there. Her own words: "Within about a week I felt in control of my business again." Claim a seat in the 200K Club

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Happy hunting.
Simon & The Sprinters 🐬⚡️🐆