Badge Qualifier

Transform raw booth conversation notes into a structured lead record — including tier, authority, fit, and next step — without inflating signals that aren't there.

When this skill triggers:

• - Use it during the show or immediately after to triage leads while the conversation is still fresh
• Use it for live single-lead decisions or end-of-day batch qualification
• Do not use it to write the outbound sequence itself; hand the result to INLINECODE0

Workflow

Step 1: Normalize Raw Input

Accept any of these input formats:

• - Typed booth notes ("Spoke with Sarah at Acme, she asked about pricing for 5 lines")
• Badge or business card OCR text (name, title, company, contact details)
• Voice transcript or dictated summary
• A mix of all three

If the user pastes badge text only, treat it as contact-only — do not infer conversation depth that wasn't described.

Extract and confirm these fields before proceeding:

• - Contact name (badge or notes; unknown if absent)
• Job title (badge; unknown if absent)
• Company (badge; unknown if absent)
• How contact was made (scanned badge / brief chat / product demo / pricing discussion)

If critical fields are missing and the user is in a live session, ask a single clarifying question. If processing in bulk, mark as unknown and continue.

Step 2: Extract Structured Lead Facts

From the normalized input, pull explicit facts — not inferences:

Field	Source	Rule
Name / Title / Company	Badge or notes	Transcribe exactly; mark as unknown if absent
Email / Phone

Badge | Transcribe only if present; never fabricate |
| Need | Conversation notes | Only quote if explicitly stated; otherwise unknown |
| Urgency | Notes ("needs by Q3", "replacing system now") | Only when a timeline is given |
| Authority | Title + explicit role clues | Infer conservatively (see tier rules below) |
| Budget signal | Notes only | Only if the contact or rep mentioned it |
| ICP fit | Compare to ICP criteria if provided | Low / Medium / High; explain why |

Critical guard: if the input is a badge scan with no conversation notes, the output should reflect that — do not generate a "needs" field or urgency from a job title alone.

Step 3: Qualify Lead Conservatively

Apply a 4-signal score:

Authority — buying role based on title:

• - Decision Maker: C-level, VP, Director, Plant Manager with budget authority
• Influencer: Manager, Engineer, Specialist — shapes decisions but likely not the buyer
• End User: Operator, Technician — useful but low authority
• Unknown: title absent or ambiguous

Need — was a problem or goal stated?

• - Explicit: they said what they're trying to solve
• Implied: they attended a demo or asked product questions
• None: badge scan only

Urgency — timeline signal:

• - Immediate: replacing something now, evaluating for current project
• Planned: mentioned a future cycle, budget in planning
• None: no timeline discussed

Fit — against ICP (if provided):

• - High / Medium / Low based on company type, size signals, and industry

Tier assignment:

Tier	Criteria
Hot (A)	All three: Authority ≥ Influencer + explicit Need + Urgency signal
Warm (B)

Any two of the three signals present (see combinations below) |
| Cold (C) | Zero or one signal, or badge-only with no conversation |

Warm tier signal combinations — any of these qualifies as Warm:

• - Authority ≥ Influencer + explicit Need (no timeline given)
• Authority ≥ Influencer + Urgency (problem implied but not stated)
• Explicit Need + Urgency (authority unknown — genuine conversation but buyer unclear)

Do not upgrade a lead based on a prestigious company name or impressive title alone. A C-suite badge scan with no conversation is still Cold. Unknown authority alone never elevates a tier.

Step 4: Produce Follow-up Handoff

Output a structured lead card as formatted Markdown (do not wrap in a code block — the card should render as readable text):

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If the user submits multiple leads at once, output one card per lead, then a brief Batch Summary at the end:
CODEBLOCK1

Next step: the lead cards produced here can be fed directly into post-show-followup — the Hot / Warm / Cold tiers map to its Tier 1 / Tier 2 / Tier 3 sequences.

Output Footer

End every output with:

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Quality Checks

Before delivering results:

• - Do not fill in unknown fields with plausible guesses — gaps are more useful than fabrications
• A badge-only contact should never receive an Explicit need entry
• Hot tier requires at least two confirmed signals — one signal is Warm at best
• Recommended next step must match the tier (no demo calls for Cold leads)
• If notes are ambiguous, surface the ambiguity rather than resolving it silently
• INLINECODE7 must match the lead tier: Hot → Tier 1, Warm → Tier 2, Cold → Tier 3