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# Ask Your Sales Agent About Your Pipeline

> Ask your sales agent which deals need you, get a next step for each, and have it draft a follow-up before anything is sent

Your sales agent knows your CRM: every deal, contact, task and note. Ask it in your own words which deals need you today, what to do next, or to draft a follow-up. It reads your records, answers with what it found, and changes records when you ask it to. Before it sends an email, it shows it to you and waits for your OK.

This guide asks Northwind's sales agent which deals have gone quiet, then has it draft a check-in email.

## Open your sales agent

On a computer, your sales agent's panel is on the right of the CRM overview and of every contact, company and deal page. If you closed it, click **Ask** and your agent's name: a button at the bottom right of the CRM overview, or a tab at the right edge of a contact, company or deal page. **+** starts a new chat.

If you don't see it at all, your sales agent is switched off. An owner or admin can click **Set up your sales agent** at the top of the CRM overview, then **Switch on**.

For quick, common questions, click a shortcut, such as **/summarize-pipeline** or **/daily-standup**, to put it in the box, then press **Enter**. Type **/** in the box to see them all.

![The sales agent's panel with a new chat: Ask about your pipeline, type slash for commands, and the shortcuts daily-standup, qualify-lead and summarize-pipeline, outlined](https://mintcdn.com/locusdigital/eGZvl9uz0F27jhbd/images/how-tos/crm/sa-05-shortcuts-closeup.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=eGZvl9uz0F27jhbd\&q=85\&s=a5e9722c9b326da0518c13cd95d48cc0)

## Ask in your own words

Type your question in the box under the chat and press **Enter**. The agent says what it will check, then shows each step as it reads your records.

![The question Which open deals have had no activity in the last 14 days, and what should I do next on each?, outlined, with the agent's plan and its three completed steps below](https://mintcdn.com/locusdigital/eGZvl9uz0F27jhbd/images/how-tos/crm/sa-02-ask-in-your-words-closeup.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=eGZvl9uz0F27jhbd\&q=85\&s=1cc979835bd0f31bf89b639428d301ff)

It answers with what it found and a next step for each deal. Here it found two deals with no activity, suggested how to pick each one up again, and changed nothing.

![A table of two deals, Sunrise Café and Brooklyn Bean House, each with its stage, close date and contact and what to do next, outlined; and the line I haven't changed any CRM records, outlined](https://mintcdn.com/locusdigital/eGZvl9uz0F27jhbd/images/how-tos/crm/sa-03-answer-closeup.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=eGZvl9uz0F27jhbd\&q=85\&s=4e17919c6bd188690eb1dc3830e408fd)

## Have it draft a follow-up

Ask for the message you need, for example "Draft a short check-in email to Mara about the Sunrise Café program". The agent checks the contact first, then writes the draft in the chat. Copy it, change it, or ask for another version.

![Draft only, nothing has been sent, outlined; and the draft email to Mara with its subject, two short paragraphs and the sign-off Northwind Coffee Roasters, outlined](https://mintcdn.com/locusdigital/eGZvl9uz0F27jhbd/images/how-tos/crm/sa-04-draft-closeup.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=eGZvl9uz0F27jhbd\&q=85\&s=c49a0e4ef5fbcfa7a14db4c51ec88639)

Before your sales agent sends an email, closes a deal as won or lost, or takes someone out of a sequence, a card in the chat shows what it will do, and nothing happens until you click **Approve**. Its starter rule, **Confirm Before Send**, also tells it to check with you before it changes more than five records. You can change its rules in [Memory](/how-tos/ai-team/give-an-agent-a-rule-or-skill).

## Good to know

* **Auto, Chat or Job.** Above the box, **Chat** talks things through and changes nothing unless you ask it to. **Job** works through a longer task without stopping to check in, then sums up what it did; an email still waits for your OK. **Auto** picks one from what you ask.
* **The same chats, everywhere.** Your chats with the agent are also in **Memory**, on the agent's chat tab.
* **It works your way.** Your sales agent follows [About your business](/how-tos/ai-team/tell-your-ai-team-about-your-business) and its own [rules and skills](/how-tos/ai-team/give-an-agent-a-rule-or-skill).
* **More:** [Plan Your Follow-Ups with Tasks](/how-tos/crm/follow-up-tasks) and [Ask Your Chief of Staff to Get Something Done](/how-tos/ai-team/ask-your-chief-of-staff).


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