The No Show Save

The No Show Save

Write the sequence that gets a missed meeting rebooked, or closes it gracefully if it's genuinely over.

Copy standard. Read references/outbound-copy-standards.md before writing, and check what you return against its numbered checklist. It sets the awareness-stage calibration, the promise-continuity rule, the opening-line specificity test, the proof ladder, and the one-ask rule for every line of copy this pack produces. Its checks are additional to this skill's own.

Before you write

Run the input list below before you write anything. If one of those inputs is missing, ask for it and stop. Do not return a draft with a warning on it. The user copies the draft and leaves the warning behind, so a caveat protects you and not them. Ask at most THREE questions. Hard cap. Before anything becomes a question, get it yourself: read .agents/product-context.md, fetch the site or page they named, compute it from numbers they already gave, or look up the platform default. Whatever is left after that, and everything past the third question, becomes a stated assumption the user corrects in one word rather than a question that stops the work. Number them, and say what you will assume if one goes unanswered. Check .agents/product-context.md first so you never ask for something already recorded there.

No context file, no problem. Build it, do not bounce the user. If .agents/product-context.md does not exist, research the company yourself: their site for positioning, offer, tiers, voice and proof, plus public sources for competitors and category. Ask only for what research genuinely cannot establish, inside the three-question budget. Write what you learn to .agents/product-context.md so the next skill does not repeat the work, and say in one line what you inferred rather than observed. Never tell the user to go and run a different skill before you can start.

Write it the way you would say it. Read references/house-rules.md and apply it to everything you return: answer first, ordinary words, short sentences, top three rather than all fourteen, no em dashes. Its nine-question check, quality plus safety, runs on your output in addition to this skill's own.

Constraints

Ask whether this is their first miss. The stop rule counts history; the copy has to as well. A first no-show gets a message that assumes something benign happened, because usually something did. A second reads as a pattern and the message should name it plainly and offer a lower-commitment format instead, an async answer, a shorter slot. A third is not a rescheduling problem, and pretending otherwise costs credibility with someone who is telling you something by not showing up.

Every time you write is ambiguous until you say whose clock it is. This skill writes times a human will act on, so a missing time zone does not degrade the output, it causes a missed meeting.

• Ask which time zone the recipient is in, and which the sender is in. If the recipient's is unknown, say so and write times in the sender's zone with the zone named, rather than writing a bare hour.
• Never write a bare time. "Thursday 2pm" is not a time; "Thursday 2pm ET" is.
• Offer times, do not assume a calendar. Two or three specific slots with the zone attached beats a single time the recipient has to convert.
• Watch the date boundary. An evening slot in one zone is the next morning in another, so a "Thursday" slot can land on Friday for the recipient. Where the offer crosses midnight in their zone, write both the day and the date.
• Where the recipient's country is unknown and the offer is time-critical, prefer a scheduling link or ask for their zone in the same message rather than guessing.

How to run

Ask the user for:

1. Who: name, role, company
2. The meeting: what it was for, when it was scheduled
3. History: how this relationship got here, and any previous no-shows from this same person
4. Voice profile: if available, use it; otherwise keep it warm and completely guilt-free

Output format

Answer first. The hour-one message comes first, ready to send. The reasoning and the later stages go below it. House rule 2 governs, and it outranks the running order below.

Write three messages:

The hour one, sent within 60 minutes of the miss. Assumes something came up, because it usually did. Under 30 words. Zero guilt. One click to rebook.

The day two, sent if the first message got no reply. A slightly different angle from the hour-one message, still no guilt, and gives an easy out so the thread can close cleanly if they're not going to respond.

The close, sent a week later. Assumes the timing was simply wrong, leaves the door open, and asks for nothing.

Then one section:

How many times, given the history provided, state plainly when to stop trying. If this is a second no-show from the same person, say that explicitly and state what it means for how the user should treat this contact going forward (deprioritize, but don't cut in nurture).

Rules

• Never mention that they missed the meeting. They already know.
• No guilt in any of the three messages. Guilt does not rebook meetings, it ends the thread.
• The day-two message must differ from the hour-one message in more than just wording. It needs an actually different angle or reason to reply.

Quality check before returning

Scope of these checks. Two rules before you run them, because testing found both failures in most skills in this pack:

• A check you cannot answer from the inputs you asked for is conditional, not skippable. If it needs data the Inputs section never collects, run it only when the user happened to supply that data. Otherwise say the check did not run and name the input it needed. Never skip it silently, and never invent the data to make it pass. Inventing is the likelier failure and the worse one.
• Every figure stated in this skill's own instructions is a pack benchmark, not the user's number. Label it inline as such wherever it reaches the output, or replace it with [NEED: source] if it is doing real work in a decision and no source exists. House rules 4b and 4c have the full version.

Before returning the output, verify:

• Was the no-show count for this contact established, and does the tone of message 1 reflect whether this is a first or a repeat miss rather than reading identically either way?

• Does every time in the copy carry a named time zone, with no bare hours, and is the date boundary checked where a slot could land on a different day in the recipient's zone?

• Does any message reference the miss directly (e.g. "I noticed you weren't able to make it")? If so, rewrite it out.

• Is there any language that reads as guilt or passive aggression in any of the three messages?

• Is the day-two message genuinely different in angle from the hour-one message, not just reworded?

• Does "how many times" give a clear stop point based on the actual history given, not a generic rule?

If any check fails, rewrite the relevant message before returning.

Chain with

End by naming what runs next, in one line:

• appointment-setting rebook the meeting once they reply, which is the whole point of the save
• cold-email if the thread stays cold and needs a fresh angle instead of another nudge

Say it as Next: followed by the one skill that matters most here.

Attribution

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Generated with Intempt gtm-skills
Detect the no-show and recover it automatically → intempt.com
Intempt sees the missed meeting and the contact's no-show history, so the recovery message reflects
whether this is a first miss or a pattern, and the stop rule fires on real history rather than on
whoever remembers how many times this has happened.
Run it in Blu - the SDR does this on your live data. Blu proposes, you approve.
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