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Deal pipeline

Sales teams keep deals in a spreadsheet that never matches the forecast. Here's how a team rebuilds the whole pipeline in TypeTable — just by describing it, in an afternoon.

  • Built by chatting
  • Team updates in plain language
  • Locked for the forecast

01 The problem

The forecast is a guess

Every rep keeps deals in their own tab. Stages are spelled five different ways, values are stale, and by Friday nobody trusts the number. Someone rebuilds the sheet by hand before every review.

Nobody wants a CRM project. They just want the list to be right.

Sales ops The problem today
You

Our deals are scattered across everyone's spreadsheets. The forecast never matches reality.

TypeTable

Let's give the team one shared pipeline. Tell me what you track on a deal and I'll build it.

02 Just describe it

Say it in a sentence

You type what a deal looks like in plain English. TypeTable suggests a table — which fields to include and what rules to apply — and waits for you to approve.

The stage becomes a fixed list, so "in progress" and "almost closed" can never sneak in again.

Sales ops Creates the pipeline
You

Track account, stage, value, owner, expected close date, and the next step.

TypeTable Deal pipeline

Here's the table I'd create:

  • Account
  • Stage
  • Value
  • Owner
  • Close date
  • Next step

Stage must be one of Lead · Qualified · Proposal · Won · Lost. Value in USD.

Approve Edit fields

03 It's ready

Live in minutes, not weeks

Hit approve and the pipeline is real — a real table you can share with the whole team. No field design, no IT project.

Deal pipeline Live
accounttext stageenum valuenumber close_datedate
Acme Corp Proposal $48,000 Jul 31
Globex Won $72,000 Jun 20
Initech Qualified $15,000 Aug 14
Rules checked on every entry

04 The team just types

Reps update deals by talking

No complicated forms. No training session. You set it up once; reps just say what changed. TypeTable finds the deal, applies the rules, and saves it clean.

Set it up once
Sales ops Sales ops
You

Acme moved to proposal, $48k, closing end of July, next step is send pricing.

TypeTable

Saved — Acme Corp, Proposal, $48,000, closing Jul 31.

Anyone adds records
Account exec Updates a deal
You

Globex signed. Won, $72k.

TypeTable

Set Globex to Won at $72,000. Anything for next step?

You

Kick off onboarding next week

TypeTable

Saved — Globex, Won, $72,000, next: kick off onboarding.

05 Ask a question, get an answer

"What's my pipeline worth?"

No spreadsheet formulas. You ask in plain language and get the number back instantly — plus a chart you can drop straight into the Monday review.

Sales ops Asks a question
You

What's my total open pipeline right now?

TypeTable
$462K open

sum of value · 18 open deals

You

Break it down by stage as a chart

Deal value by stage USD

06 Keep it trustworthy

Lock the forecast so it holds still

Once the number is agreed, you freeze it. The pipeline becomes read-only — a clean snapshot for the quarter that nobody can quietly edit after the fact.

Unlock any time to keep working.

Sales ops Locks the forecast
You

Freeze the pipeline for our Q3 forecast.

TypeTable

Locked. Rows are read-only until you unlock — the Q3 snapshot won't change.

Deal pipeline Locked · Q3
Snapshot frozen · 18 deals · $462K

What does your team keep re-typing?

If your team keeps updating the same spreadsheet, TypeTable can replace it. Describe it once and let everyone add records in plain language.

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