DealSleek · How-to guidePreview
Add a lead
6 steps, from “Capture” to “Activate”, with what to enter at each one.
- Audience
- Administrator, Operator
- Owner
- DealSleek product documentation
- Last reviewed
- Oct 12, 2026
- Reading time
- 7 min
Steps
- 01
Capture
Who are we talking about? Required identifiers and lifecycle.
- First nameRequired
- Legal given name of the contact person.
- Last nameRequired
- Family name or surname of the contact person.
- Source
- Initial marketing, partner, or outbound attribution channel.
- EmailRequired
- Corporate business email address used for primary outreach and identity matching.
- Company
- Legal business or trading entity the contact represents.
- Phone
- Direct telephone number in international E.164 format.
- State
- Operational lead disposition state (Discovered, Engaged, Qualified, CryoSleep).
- Cryo wake trigger
- What signal should wake this lead from hibernation.
- Lifecycle stage
- Funnel progression milestone (Lead, Marketing Qualified, Sales Qualified).
- Disqualification category
- Why this lead isn't a fit right now.
- Reason
- One sentence of context for the next person who reviews this.
- Score
- Predictive fit score, 0–100. Higher = better.
- 02
Why may we contact this person?
Every outbound action checks this before it sends. Recorded against the lead, not assumed.
- Channels you have consent forRequired
- Only the channels you can evidence. You can add more later.
- Country the lead is inRequired
- Where the person is, not where you are — the stricter regime applies.
- Sub-region
- Only needed where the rules split below the country, such as California.
- Evidence referenceRequired
- What you would show a regulator: the form, the call recording, the opt-in.
- 03
Enrich
We're pulling public signals about this lead. Review and override anything.
- 04
Score
Your lead's fit score — and exactly what's driving it. Override anytime.
- 05
Route
Assign to an owner. Routing rules are deterministic; override is permitted.
- Routing mechanismRequired
- Algorithm used to assign ownership (Round Robin, Territory, Pareto Headroom, Manual).
- Assigned rep
- Sales representative or account executive owning this opportunity.
- Cognitive load
- How much rep attention this lead needs (1–5).
- 06
Activate
- How to launchRequired
- Immediate execution track (Enroll in cadence, Cryo-sleep hold, Discovery research, Disqualify).
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