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An account you lost is back in motion.

An account you closed-lost is talking to a named competitor again. The need is back, and so is the opening. This Always-on play reopens the conversation before the choice is made a second time.

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Where it fits

From a competitor's move to a reopened deal.

Deal Intelligence is the source. Clay reopens the conversation while the field is still open.

Deal Intelligence
The data
A buyer at an account you closed-lost is talking to a named competitor.
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Clay table
The row
One row matched to the closed-lost account and its original owner.
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In Clay
The play
Surface · find email · write the re-open · route.
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Your campaign tool
The send
Out to the buyer. A revival, not a cold restart.
Follow one activityHelix is talking to Priya Anand at Vertex (closed-lost) → row scored and routed to the original owner → Clay drafts "vertex enablement, take two" → sent.
What's in the table

One row per account back in market.

Each row is one verified activity: a named buyer at one of your accounts, talking to a named competitor. It’s refreshed daily and filtered to accounts where account_status reads closed-lost. A buyer talking to a competitor is back in the category, and the window that closed has reopened.

DI · /closed_lost_revival 17 columns 2 sample rows verified
demoTevent_typesourced_date#recency_days#confidence#priority_scoreTcompetitorTbuyer_nameTbuyer_titleTaccount_nameTaccount_statuslost_dateToriginal_owneroverall_qualifiedTqualified_reasonAIre_open→route
1Closed-Lost RevivalJun 6, 202620.9684HelixPriya AnandDirector, EnablementVertex Healthclosed_lostSep 4, 2025Owen DiazLost account back in talks with a competitor.vertex enablement, take twoOWNER: Owen Diaz
2Closed-Lost RevivalJun 8, 202610.9790TempoMarcus BellRVP, SalesHelio Freightclosed_lostJul 18, 2025Lena OrtizBack in market eight months after loss.helio, worth a second lookOWNER: Lena Ortiz

The table as it looks in Clay: the closed-lost columns plus the play columns (AI re-open, owner route). Scroll for the rest; real activities replace the sample rows once you connect your key.

The play

Reopen before the choice is made again.

Step 01 · Surface
Filter to activities on closed-lost accounts. Each row already carries why it was qualified and who the buyer in motion is.
Step 02 · Find the email
If the buyer's work email is missing, the waterfall fills it from name and account domain. Often the buyer is new since you last spoke, so reach the current one, not a stale contact.
Step 03 · Write the re-open
An AI column in your table drafts a short note that acknowledges timing without re-litigating the loss: what's changed on your side, one reason to look again. It never reveals how you know they're back.
Step 04 · Route
Back to the original owner where one exists, since they have the history. Otherwise by region. Continuity beats a cold restart.
Step 05 · Launch
Hands the row to your campaign tool: Instantly, Smartlead, Outreach, or an ads audience. It ships disabled. Add your key and the play runs on its own, every day.
Why now
Closed-lost lists go stale because there's no cue for when to work them. This is the cue: not a date on a calendar, an account actually back in market.
AI copywriting

The re-open it writes.

Low-ego and specific. It doesn't reopen the old argument or claim the buyer was wrong. It offers a reason the timing is different now. Peer register, one ask, no mention of the source. A sample, right.

# Sample, drafted for a demo row
To:      Priya Anand · Director Enablement, Vertex Health
Subject: vertex enablement, take two

Priya, we spoke a while back and the timing
wasn't right; no hard feelings on our end.

A couple of things changed since that are worth
two minutes if enablement is back on your desk,
mainly around rollout speed, which I think was the
sticking point last time. Open to a quick look?

Sample row. Real activities replace it once you connect your key, with the buyer and the account named.

How the data arrives

Two ways into your table.

Via your CRM · recommended
CRM sync writes competitive-activity fields onto your Salesforce or HubSpot records, including closed-lost status and the original owner, so the data shows up as columns natively.
Via webhook · event-driven
Point a Clay table's Webhook source at the per-table URL, add it in your Deal Intelligence settings, and each new competitive activity on a closed-lost account posts a row.

Shares the same data backbone as Competitor evaluations. Read the Clay guide →

Turn your competitors’ pipeline into yours.

Runs on your own account list. The guarantee: new pipeline, or a competitor found in one of your open deals.

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