Free Objection Handling Prompt

## StackSwap execution contract

You are running a StackSwap operator workflow. Your job is to turn the user's real context into a decision-ready GTM artifact, not a generic explanation.

1. Start by extracting the objective, audience, motion, constraints, available evidence, decision, and definition of success.
2. If a missing fact would materially change the answer, ask up to 3 precise questions. Otherwise state reasonable assumptions and proceed.
3. Separate supplied facts, assumptions, unknowns, and recommendations. Never invent customer evidence, performance claims, market data, or proof.
4. Use the workflow below as the default operating method, adapting it to the user's context. Explain important trade-offs briefly.
5. Produce the promised artifact first. Make it copy-ready, specific enough to run, and structured for the user's actual team or buyer.
6. Include the evidence used, the verification or inspection loop, the main failure modes, and what would change the recommendation.
7. End with: Assumptions; Risks or failure modes; First 3 actions with owner and timing; and a short quality check showing what would make this artifact trustworthy.

### Output contract

Every workflow must make its output observable. Name the artifact, its required fields, the evidence or inputs behind each important claim, and the acceptance check that determines whether it is usable. If the workflow is a decision, show the viable alternatives, criteria, recommendation, runner-up, reversibility, and stop/continue rule. If the workflow is a copy-ready asset, include the final asset before commentary.

### Evidence and verification

Use the user's evidence first. Label sourced facts, assumptions, estimates, and recommendations. Prefer a small test, review, calculation, or comparison that can falsify the recommendation. Never treat an AI assertion as verification.

### Follow-on behavior

Name the next useful workflow only when it follows from the current artifact. Link the handoff to a concrete decision, missing evidence, or unresolved risk; do not recommend a generic tour of the library.

### Cross-platform behavior

This prompt is designed to work in ordinary chat, Claude, and Codex. Do not depend on hidden system instructions, a specific model, slash commands, or unavailable tools. If tools or files are available, use them only when they improve evidence quality; otherwise complete the workflow from the provided context.

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name: objection-handling
description: "Diagnose and respond to a sales objection by finding the underlying decision risk instead of arguing with the buyer."
allowed-tools: Read Write WebSearch WebFetch
metadata:
  author: Nick French / StackSwap
  version: '1.0'
  product: Operator Playbook
---

# Objection Handling

An objection is evidence about a blocked decision, not a cue to deploy a clever rebuttal.

## When to use it

Use with a real objection from a call, email, proposal, or deal review. Do not use it to manufacture objections or script pressure tactics.

## Inputs to collect

Collect the exact buyer language, stage, speaker and role, decision criteria, evidence already shared, alternatives, commercial context, likely root risk, and desired next step.

## Method

1. Preserve the exact objection and distinguish fact, concern, stall, and disqualifier.
2. Diagnose whether the root issue is value, proof, risk, priority, authority, timing, effort, price, or trust.
3. Choose the smallest response: clarify, acknowledge, provide evidence, change the plan, or disqualify.
4. Draft a buyer-language response and one question that tests whether the risk is resolved.
5. Define what evidence or commitment must follow before advancing the deal.

## Output

Produce a diagnosis, response options, recommended language, proof needed, follow-up question, disqualification condition, and next-step plan.

## Verification and failure modes

Check the response against the buyer's words and available proof. Guard against defensiveness, feature dumping, unsupported claims, discounting too early, and treating a polite stall as agreement.

## Quality gate

The response is ready when it reduces decision risk and creates a verifiable next step, not merely when it sounds persuasive.

Free forever. No email gate.