A neutral check-in for buyers and sellers

Get a clear status
update without the sales pressure.

TellPenny gives buyers an easier way to share where an evaluation stands without another direct sales follow up. They select one option to indicate whether the deal is still active, paused, or closed. If they choose, Penny, our AI follow up assistant, asks a few short questions to add context and clarify what comes next.

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TellPenny on behalf of Harborline Systems

Harborline Systems would like to close the loop

Harborline Systems asked TellPenny to confirm the current status of Westbridge Technologies’s evaluation.

Which option best describes the current situation?

  • The evaluation is still active
  • The project was postponed because priorities changed
  • Budget or resources prevented us from moving forward
  • Another vendor was selected
  • The project was cancelled

Your selection is shared with Harborline Systems. No account or written reply is needed.

Confirm, then choose to go deeper

The buyer confirms their answer. Penny asks if they would like to share a little more.

First the buyer selects and confirms their response. Then Penny, our AI follow up assistant, invites them to answer a few short questions. The buyer is in control and can stop at any time.

Response confirmed
Another vendor was selected

Thank you. Harborline Systems has been notified and no further reminders will be sent.

PT
Westbridge Technologies · Pierre Tremblay

Thank you. Your response has been recorded.

Open to a few more questions?

Penny, our AI follow up assistant, would like to ask a few questions to help better understand your response. No typing is required, and you will be finished in under a minute.

Continue with PennyNo thanks, I am done

Meet Penny, your adaptive AI follow up agent

One answer tells you what happened. Penny finds out why.

After a buyer selects their response, Penny asks a few short, neutral questions to uncover the reasoning behind it. She is respectful, never pushy, and the buyer can answer in one tap or stop at any time. Every answer is saved as it is given, so even a partial conversation is useful.

Digs one level deeper

Penny asks what drove the selection, what would have changed it and who else was involved.

Stays on topic

Penny only discusses this deal. She will not answer questions about other customers, pricing strategy or how the platform works.

Turns replies into structure

Every conversation becomes a summary plus tagged fields your team can filter and report on.

Penny follows upOptional for the buyer
Penny

Thanks for confirming. Can I ask what made the other vendor the stronger fit?

Buyer

Their reporting was ready out of the box.

Penny

Was pricing a factor at all, or mainly the reporting gap?

Buyer

Mainly reporting. Pricing was close enough.

Penny

Is there anything we could have done differently in our demo?

Buyer

A live integration example would have helped.

Seller sees

Lost to a competitor on reporting depth. Pricing was competitive. A live integration demo may help future deals.

Let us be clear

This is not another survey tool.

Surveys ask buyers how they feel. TellPenny asks one question a quiet buyer is actually willing to answer: what happened to this deal. Nothing else is in the way.

Purpose
Survey toolCollect broad feedback and scores
TellPennyResolve one quiet deal and capture the real reason why
Trigger
Survey toolSent on a schedule to a list
TellPennySent by the seller the moment a buyer goes dark
Ask of the buyer
Survey toolA form with several questions
TellPennyOne selection, then one confirmation
Who it comes from
Survey toolthe sales rep or a research firm
TellPennyTellPenny, on behalf of the seller's company
Result
Survey toolAggregate sentiment data
TellPennyA deal status the seller can act on today

Closure for the buyer.
Clarity for the seller.

For the buyer

An easier way to say what happened.

  • No account or login
  • No written email reply
  • No uncomfortable conversation
  • One selection and one confirmation
Response confirmed
Another vendor was selected

Thank you. Harborline Systems has been notified and no further reminders will be sent.

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Westbridge Technologies · Pierre Tremblay

For the seller

A clear outcome instead of silence.

  • Know whether the deal is truly over
  • Capture a structured loss reason
  • Stop wasting time on dead opportunities
  • Identify conversations that may still be active
Buyer response receivedClosed lost

Another vendor was selected

Westbridge Technologies · Pierre Tremblay

Sent
Mar 4, 9:12 AM
Responded
Mar 5, 8:41 AM

Silence is not a no

Some deals are not dead. They are just not moving.

When a buyer stops replying, most sellers assume they lost and quietly stop trying. Often the evaluation is still open, the budget moved to next quarter, or the champion changed roles. One neutral request separates the deals that are truly over from the ones that only look that way.

Before TellPenny

An assumption

  • Buyer goes quiet after a strong meeting
  • Seller sends four follow-ups and hears nothing
  • Deal is marked closed lost with no reason
  • Nobody ever reaches back out

With TellPenny

A confirmed answer

  • Buyer selects, evaluation is on hold until next budget cycle
  • Buyer confirms they are open to being contacted in 6 months
  • Deal status updates automatically to paused instead of closed lost
  • The follow-up date is on record, so the seller returns invited, not guessing

Reconnect signals

A buyer saying "come back in 6 months" is a pipeline opportunity, not a loss.

Every buyer can tell you, without writing a single sentence, whether they are open to hearing from you again and when. TellPenny records that timeframe, adds any comment they leave, and surfaces it as an upcoming reconnect date so your team knows exactly which quiet deals to revisit.

In 3 monthsIn 6 monthsIn 9 monthsIn 12 monthsIn 18 monthsIn 24 months

Company insights

See what is really happening to quiet deals.

TellPenny turns individual buyer responses into a clear view of outcomes and loss patterns across your team.

app.tellpenny.com/insights
Requests sent
128
Response rate
64%
Unknown outcomes resolved
82
Active or recoverable
19
What happened to quiet deals
Closed lost46
Still active19
Paused14
Wrong contact5
Top closed lost reasons
Competitor or alternative selected31
Budget or price24
Timing or priorities21
Product fit15
No decision9
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Buyer comments

We renewed with our incumbent for another year.

Revisit after our fiscal planning cycle in Q1.

Closed lost, as a learning system

The deals you lost are the best training data you have.

One loss reason is an anecdote. A hundred of them, collected the same way and tagged the same way, show your team exactly where positioning breaks down, which competitor keeps winning and which objection your reps are hearing too late in the cycle.

Sharpen positioning

When reporting depth shows up in a third of your losses, that is a message change, a demo change and a roadmap conversation, not a rep problem.

Coach with evidence

Managers can see the exact language buyers used, by rep, by segment and by stage, instead of guessing what went wrong in the room.

Qualify earlier

Recurring patterns tell you which deals were never winnable, so your team spends its quarter on the ones that are.

Know your real competition

Buyers name who they picked and why. That becomes a live battlecard built from outcomes, not from marketing pages.

Feed product decisions

Capability gaps that cost revenue are ranked by lost pipeline, so product hears a number and not an opinion.

Rebuild the pipeline

Paused deals and reconnect dates turn last quarter's losses into next quarter's qualified conversations.

Built for trust

Neutral, not anonymous.

TellPenny clearly tells buyers which company requested the response and that their selection will be shared. It creates distance from the salesperson without misleading the buyer.

Transparent

The buyer always knows which company requested the response.

Low pressure

No written reply, login or long survey is required.

Respectful

Once the buyer responds, unnecessary follow-up stops.

TellPenny does one job:
tell you why the deal went dark.

It is not a survey platform, a CRM, an email sequencer or a sales engagement tool. It exists for one moment: the buyer stopped responding and the seller needs to know why.

Use TellPenny when…

A proposal goes quietA pilot ends without a decisionBudget approval stallsA competitive evaluation disappearsA renewal or expansion conversation stopsThe buyer appears interested, then stops responding

Questions, answered.

Stop guessing why you lost.

Send your first close-the-loop request in under two minutes.

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Buyer response receivedClosed lost

Another vendor was selected

Westbridge Technologies · Pierre Tremblay

Sent
Mar 4, 9:12 AM
Responded
Mar 5, 8:41 AM