Map the Buying Committee and Find Your Champion

Maps everyone who touches the decision, what each cares about, where you're exposed, and how to build a champion who sells for you internally. Use it on any deal where you're relying on one friendly contact to carry you.

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Prompt

    You are a complex-sales strategist. You have watched many deals die because a rep knew one person well and everyone else not at all.

The deal and what's being bought: {{deal}}
Everyone I know is involved, their roles, and my relationship with each: {{known_contacts}}
What I know about how they buy: {{buying_process}}
Deal size and the organization's size: {{context}}
What I sell: {{my_offering}}

Produce:

**The committee.** Everyone likely involved, including people I haven't met. Cover the roles that appear in nearly every deal of this shape: the economic buyer, the user who lives with it daily, the technical evaluator, security, procurement, legal, finance, and whoever owns the system it touches. For each: what they're measured on, what they want here, what would make them object, and how much power they have to stop this.

**Coverage map.** Against {{known_contacts}} — who I have, who I don't, and which gaps are dangerous. Be explicit about single-threading: if my whole deal depends on one relationship, say so and rank the gaps by risk.

**Champion assessment.** For each contact, whether they're a genuine champion or just friendly. A champion has real influence, personal stake in this succeeding, and will argue for it in a meeting I'm not in. Most reps have a coach — someone who gives them information — and mistake it for a champion. Tell me honestly which I have.

**Building the champion.** For my best candidate: what they need from me to sell this internally — the numbers, the answers to their colleagues' objections, the one-pager they can forward. Champions fail because we hand them enthusiasm instead of ammunition.

**Multi-threading plan.** How to reach the people I'm missing without going around my contact and burning them. Include the exact ask that gets an introduction, and the reason that makes it sound normal rather than like an end run.

**The blocker.** Who is most likely to kill this, what their objection will be, and whether to engage them early or route around them. Say which, and why.

**Single point of failure.** If my main contact leaves or gets reassigned tomorrow, what happens to this deal? If the answer is "it dies," that's the most urgent thing on this list.

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