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Call Intelligence

Call Review Coach

Review a specific sales call and deliver evidence-backed coaching feedback with prioritized next-practice actions. Use when asked to coach a rep from a call recording, transcript, or notes across discovery, demo, objection, or closing moments. Route requests to create roleplay drills to roleplay-scenario-builder and requests to define discovery scoring standards to discovery-rubric-auditor.

Call Review Coach

Turn one sales call into clear coaching priorities that improve next-call execution.

Confirm Inputs First

  • If a current revenue-enablement-context exists, use it first for ICP, persona, stage, and messaging expectations. If not, ask for only the highest-impact missing context.
  • Confirm the call source: transcript, recording notes, or summary.
  • Confirm call type: discovery, demo, technical validation, commercial review, or close.
  • Confirm rep context: role, tenure, and target segment.
  • Confirm the coaching objective: discovery depth, commercial framing, next-step control, or objection handling.
  • Confirm scoring standard: use provided rubric or default to references/call-coaching-rubric.md.

If any required item is missing, ask for the minimum missing details. If the user wants speed, proceed with labeled assumptions.

Read The Right Reference

Default Workflow

  1. Frame the review objective and success criteria for this specific call type.
  2. Extract high-signal moments with concrete evidence from transcript lines or notes.
  3. Check evidence quality and coverage (full transcript vs partial notes) and label confidence before scoring.
  4. Score performance using the reference rubric with explicit rationale per dimension.
  5. Separate strengths from gaps, then rank the top 1-3 coaching priorities.
  6. Convert priorities into next-call practice actions with observable behavior targets.
  7. Provide a short manager follow-up plan for reinforcement on the next call.

Tool Notes

  • If conversation intelligence tools are available, use timestamps, talk tracks, and question-level snippets as evidence.
  • If no tooling exists, score from notes and call summary without inventing evidence.
  • Keep method tool-agnostic: evidence quality matters more than system choice.

Output Contract

  • Call Context: type, segment, rep level, and review objective.
  • Scorecard: dimension-by-dimension score with evidence.
  • Strengths To Keep: behaviors to preserve.
  • Top Gaps: prioritized coaching gaps with impact notes.
  • Next-Call Practice Plan: concrete drills and execution checkpoints.
  • Manager Follow-Up: what to inspect in the next 1-2 calls.

Quality Bar

  • Tie every score or claim to explicit call evidence.
  • Limit coaching to the fewest high-impact priorities instead of long issue lists.
  • Make actions behavior-specific and testable in the next call.
  • Avoid generic advice that cannot be inspected by a manager.
  • State clearly that a single call is directional coaching input, not a full rep-level verdict.

Open source

This playbook is part of 37 open-source enablement workflows. Read, copy, and adapt — attribution welcome but not required.

enablementskills.md · View source on GitHub

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Discovery Rubric Auditor

Audit discovery call execution using a consistent scoring rubric and produce prioritized coaching actions for managers and enablement leads. Use when asked to score discovery quality across one or more calls, compare rep performance, or find recurring discovery gaps. Route requests to design discovery flows and demo structures to discovery-and-demo-structure and requests for single-call coaching feedback to call-review-coach.

Discovery And Demo Structure

Design structured discovery flows and demo narratives that map to buyer outcomes, stakeholder priorities, and deal-stage decisions. Use when asked to create or improve discovery guides, question architecture, or demo sequencing for a specific role or segment. Route requests to score discovery performance to discovery-rubric-auditor and requests to coach a specific call to call-review-coach.

Field Feedback Synthesizer

Synthesize revenue field feedback into clear themes, issue clusters, and prioritized actions. Use when asked to consolidate rep, manager, call, survey, or CRM notes into decision-ready outputs for enablement and product marketing. Route asset coverage audits to content-gap-analysis and one-off call coaching to call-review-coach.