Renewal prep
Runbook for turning a HubSpot renewal date into a prepped packet and a drafted outreach email for {{projectName}}. Covers the 90/60/30-day windows, what belongs in a renewal packet, at-risk signals, Google Calendar cross-checking, and the human approval gate before anything…
Overview
A renewal date on a HubSpot deal is only useful if someone acts on it early. A daily sweep reads every open deal's {{renewal_date_property}}, finds the accounts crossing 90, 60, or 30 days out, builds a renewal packet — usage, value delivered, and expansion ideas — checks Google Calendar for an existing renewal conversation, and drafts the outreach. Anything that looks stalled, shrinking, or gone quiet is flagged as at-risk in the same run. Nothing reaches a customer and no discount is ever applied until the account owner reviews it.
Fresh session per sweep — state lives on the HubSpot deal record itself (a kortix_renewal_stage_alerted property marks the last window surfaced), not in a local ledger file. A sweep can find several accounts at once; handle each as an independent unit — a failure preparing one account's packet is logged and skipped, never blocking any other account in the same sweep.
When to load
- The daily renewal sweep fires.
- A human asks the agent to check a specific account's renewal status or re-run the sweep.
- The renewal playbook (packet format, at-risk criteria, outreach tone) changes and needs to be reflected in the next run.
Workflow
Step 0 — Orient: find what crossed a window
Query HubSpot for open deals with {{renewal_date_property}} set:
GET /crm/v3/objects/deals/search
filterGroups: [
{ propertyName: "{{renewal_date_property}}", operator: "LTE", value: <today + 90d> },
{ propertyName: "dealstage", operator: "NEQ", value: "closedlost" }
]
properties: ["{{renewal_date_property}}", "amount", "dealstage", "hubspot_owner_id",
"kortix_renewal_stage_alerted", "notes_last_updated", "hs_lastmodifieddate"]
For each deal, compute days-to-renewal and bucket it into 90 / 60 / 30. Skip a deal if kortix_renewal_stage_alerted already equals that bucket — it was packeted on a prior run. A deal moving into a new, tighter bucket (e.g. 90 → 60) always gets a fresh packet, since more has likely changed.
Step 1 — Read the account's history
Pull the deal's notes, stage history, contract value, and the owner (hubspot_owner_id → name). Read prior call and email activity to reconstruct what's been delivered and discussed since the account signed or last renewed.
Step 2 — Build the renewal packet
Assemble, in order:
- Usage and value delivered — what the account has actually gotten out of the product since the last renewal, drawn from notes and activity, in concrete terms (not "engaged well" — the specific thing that shipped or got used).
- Expansion ideas — one or two concrete, specific opportunities grounded in what this account does and hasn't used yet. Never a generic "consider upgrading" line.
- Contract terms — current value, renewal date, and term length.
Step 3 — Check Google Calendar (read-only)
Look for an existing renewal or QBR meeting near the renewal date. If one exists, reference it in the draft ("ahead of our call on ...") instead of proposing a new one. This is read-only — never create, move, or accept an event.
Step 4 — Flag at-risk signals
Independent of the 90/60/30 bucket, call out a deal as at-risk when it shows:
| Signal | What it means |
|---|---|
| Stage unchanged for an extended period | Deal has stalled |
| Contract value trending down vs. last term | Account may be scaling back |
| No logged activity in a long stretch | Relationship's gone quiet |
| Notes mentioning a competitor, budget freeze, or churn intent | Explicit risk |
At-risk deals get named specifically in {{alert_channel}}, with the signal that triggered the flag — every day they remain at-risk, not just once.
Step 5 — Draft the outreach
Write the renewal email using the packet: lead with the value delivered, name the expansion idea if one fits naturally, and reference the scheduled conversation if Step 3 found one. Hold it in {{draft_channel}} for the account owner. Never send it, and never write a specific discount, credit, or price change into the draft — if the account's situation calls for a pricing conversation, say so in the packet and let the owner handle it.
Step 6 — Post the radar
Post one summary to {{alert_channel}}: accounts newly crossing a 90/60/30 window (owner, renewal date, bucket), and the at-risk list with its signals. This is the read summary; the packet and draft are the deliverables in {{draft_channel}}.
Step 7 — Write the marker back
Set kortix_renewal_stage_alerted on each packeted deal to the bucket just surfaced (with a timestamp). This is the only HubSpot write — never the deal stage, amount, or pipeline.
Guardrails
- Never send. The renewal outreach is always a draft in {{draft_channel}} for the account owner to review, edit, and send.
- Never discount. The agent never applies, offers, or suggests a specific discount, credit, or price change. Pricing stays with the account owner.
- Calendar is read-only. Check for an existing conversation; never create, move, or accept an event.
- HubSpot writes are scoped to
kortix_renewal_stage_alerted. Never change deal stage, amount, or pipeline. - No duplicate packets. Always check
kortix_renewal_stage_alertedbefore building a new packet — a deal already surfaced for its current bucket isn't re-packeted, though a move into a tighter bucket always gets a fresh one. - At-risk flags aren't deduplicated. Unlike packets, an at-risk flag reappears every day the signal still holds — it's a nudge, not a one-time event.
- Scoped secrets. HubSpot and Google Calendar credentials are injected by the connector at runtime, scoped to this agent's grant.