Price, pitch and follow up: Price Floor and Follow-Up Clock (free sample)

What you end up with

Prices that clear your own rate, every open proposal on a day 3, 8, 15 and 21 clock, and follow-ups with one easy question and no guilt lines.

What you get

• The pricing check: floor, target and stretch against hours x your lowest rate + costs, with the per-hour math
• The follow-up clock: DUE, WAIT or CLOSE for every open proposal, counted from the day it went out
• Five draft checks: placeholders, over 90 words, guilt lines, pressure lines and anything but one easy question
• Your yes at your own terminal, refused in agent sessions, and a gate that says NO-GO if the draft changed
• AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, a Grok Bot standing order, a Hermes skill and 22 tests

Who it is for

Solo founders and small studios who sell services by proposal and want help with follow-ups without an agent ever sending for them.

Works with

Solid chips: the agent is named in this listing's own tools list. Dashed chip: One Python script, templates, a made-up bookkeeping studio and agent rules for each harness. Tested on Linux.

Tools needed

Cost to run: Free. Python is free.
Time to result: About five minutes

How it works

1. Run the example

   Unpack the file and run python3 clock.py price example/prices.txt, then python3 clock.py pipeline example/pipeline.csv --today 2026-11-04.

   Expected: The floor is flagged under 3,750; three leads DUE, one WAIT, one CLOSE.

2. Fill in your numbers

   Copy templates/, put your name in settings.json, your prices in prices.txt and one row per open proposal in pipeline.csv.

   Expected: CLOCK PASS on your prices.

3. Let the agent draft

   Give it AGENTS.md. It drafts each DUE follow-up from your notes and checks it.

   Expected: One passing draft per DUE lead, nothing sent.

4. Approve and send yourself

   Run python3 clock.py approve settings.json drafts/LEAD.md, type send, then send it from your own mail.

   Expected: gate says GO until the draft changes.

Sample prompts, free to use

Follow AGENTS.md. Run clock.py pipeline with today's date, draft each DUE follow-up to drafts/LEAD.md from notes/LEAD.txt only, and run clock.py draft on each until it passes.
Show me the DUE, WAIT and CLOSE lines and the drafts, then stop. Never approve, send, schedule or queue anything.

Free preview of the file

# Price Floor and Follow-Up Clock

**Most solo founders do not lose deals on price. They lose them by quoting under their own floor and going quiet after the proposal. This free sample checks both: your prices against your real rate, and which follow-up is due today. Your agent drafts; you approve and send.**

Version 1.0, 2026-11-04. By PaperChaseWebb Inc. Free sample of Price, pitch and follow up ($14). Works with Grok Bot, Claude Code, Codex and Hermes, or by hand. Python 3.8 or newer, no installs.

## What you get out of it

- A floor, target and stretch price that each clear your lowest acceptable hourly rate after costs, with the per-hour math printed.
- A follow-up clock counted from the day the proposal went out: day 3, 8, 15 and 21, then you close the loop. Every lead is DUE, WAIT or CLOSE.
- Five checks on every follow-up draft: placeholders left, over 90 words, guilt lines like "just checking in", pressure lines like "act now", and anything other than one easy question.
- An owner yes, recorded at your own terminal, tied to the draft as it reads. Change one word and the gate says NO-GO.

## Who it is for

Consultants, freelancers and small studios who sell services by proposal and want an agent to help without ever sending anything on their behalf.

## Set up (5 minutes)

1. Copy `extract_from_pack.py` from the appendix by hand, then run `python3 extract_from_pack.py price-floor-and-follow-up-clock-free-sample.md clock/` to unpack the rest.
2. In `clock/`, run the 

Worth knowing

• The sample checks prices, the follow-up clock and five rules on each follow-up. Proposal, case study, price increase and decline checks, numbers not in your notes, and the 15 prompts are in the full pack.
• On 2026-11-04: 22 tests passed on Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.11, 3.12 and 3.13 on Linux, run from the files unpacked out of the sample. Agent rules guide; they were not loaded inside each harness for this release.

Details

Version 1.0 · Updated Nov 4, 2026 · Markdown version of this page
License: Personal and commercial use. Download terms

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