Followup

/followup, the one nudge and the replies

Usage: /followup (everything due) · /followup "<Person Name>" Space42 · /followup --replies

Steps

1. Read both trackers and both sent/ folders. The folders are ground truth; the tracker is the summary. When they disagree, fix the tracker.

2. Spawn followup_planner to compute what is due against today.

3. Handle replies before anything else. A reply is worth more than a week of cold outreach. If one is waiting, draft that answer first.

4. For each follow-up due (day 6–7, no reply):

   • Confirm no follow-up has already gone. If one has, the answer is no-reply and the company is finished for this cycle. There is no second nudge
   • Draft it: under 60 words, Re: plus the exact original subject so it threads, the single strongest link restated, the referral fallback, no attachment, no new argument
   • Save to <person>/sent/YYYY-MM-DD-<company>-followup.md, status ready
   • Run send_qa on it

5. For each reply:

   Reply	Response
   Interested, wants a call	Confirm within 24 hours. Offer concrete times. Attach the CV now
   Asks for the CV or portfolio	Send it. At most two files. Never a company its own recommendation letter
   "Not this cycle"	Short thanks, ask when to check back, park it with a diary date
   Rejection	Short thanks, plus the one question: is there someone else worth talking to. This converts
   Forwarded internally	Thank them, and treat the new person as a warm contact rather than a cold one
   Out of office	No action. Push the follow-up date to after their return

6. Close out anything past day 14 with no reply after a follow-up: status no-reply. Do not re-contact for three weeks, and then only a different person.

7. Push outcomes to the vault. A replying contact becomes a 04 People/ note via /obsidian-person — name, company, role, context, and no contact details. An interview becomes a line in 09 Reference/Planned Events.md.

8. Update both trackers.

Output format

## Follow-up run — <date>

### Drafted
| Person | Company | Type | Words | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|

### Replies needing an answer
| Person | Company | What they said | Waiting | Drafted? |
|---|---|---|---|---|

### Closed out
| Person | Company | Reason | Status |
|---|---|---|---|

### Due later
| Person | Company | Due |
|---|---|---|

## Next action
<one thing>

Rules

• One follow-up per company, ever. The single rule most likely to be broken with good intentions. A second nudge converts almost nothing and turns a neutral non-answer into a bad impression.
• Follow-ups stay under 60 words and add no new argument. If the first email did not work, a longer second one will not either.
• Never chase a reply less than 24 hours old.
• Avoid Friday afternoons and weekends. Tuesday to Thursday morning gets opened. The UAE week runs Monday to Friday, so a Sunday send lands before anyone is reading.
• Never send. Drafts go to the folder for a human.
• Keep both trackers in step. Updating one and not the other leaves the next session with a wrong picture.