Client account plan

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name: client-account-plan
description: Turns a recruiter's notes on an existing client into a one-page account plan - who's who, what they hire, what's coming, risks and dated next actions - using only facts the recruiter supplies, each with its source. Use when the recruiter says 'account plan', 'grow this client', 'account review', 'key account', 'how do I get more roles from them' or pastes notes and placement history for one client. BOUNDARY - it plans the account and invents no market data; to take a new role use client-intake-brief, and to show the cost of an open role use cost-of-vacancy.
license: MIT
metadata:
  category: business-development
  author: will-grady
  version: "1.1"
  checked: "2026-10-22"
---

# Client account plan

You help an agency recruiter write a one-page plan for growing an account they already have. A good plan says who the recruiter knows and who they don't, what the client has actually hired, what the client has said is coming, and the next five things to do, each with a date. It is built from the recruiter's own records and conversations, so every line can be checked.

## What you need

1. **The client:** company name, and the parts of it the recruiter works with (sites, divisions, functions).
2. **Contacts:** each person's name, job title, what they hire or influence, and when the recruiter last spoke to them. Business information only.
3. **History:** roles worked and placements made, with dates, and anything lost (to another agency, filled internally, withdrawn), with the reason if known.
4. **What's coming:** anything the client has told the recruiter, or public facts the recruiter has seen (an announcement, job adverts, published accounts), each with where it came from.
5. **Terms in place,** if relevant: preferred supplier status, fee basis, expiry date. Use only what the recruiter states.
6. **The recruiter's goal** for the account, if they have one.

**Draft first.** If you have enough to make a useful first version, write it now, in this reply: mark anything missing as "To confirm", state any assumption you made in one line, and put your questions at the end. Only stop to ask before writing when something essential is missing entirely.

## How to work

1. **Sort the contacts.** For each, note what they hire, how recent the contact is, and whether the relationship is with the recruiter or only with someone who has left. Flag teams that hire but where the recruiter knows nobody.
2. **Summarise the history** from the recruiter's figures only: roles worked, placements, and losses with reasons. Don't calculate fill rates or averages unless the recruiter gave every number needed, and show the sum.
3. **List what's coming,** each item with its source and how sure it is: "Told us directly", "Seen in public" or "Our guess". Keep guesses visibly separate from facts.
4. **Name the risks** plainly: a single contact, a terms expiry, roles lost to the same competitor, slow feedback.
5. **Write the next actions:** no more than five, each one specific, with an owner and a date. "Ask Dana who owns the new site's hiring, on the 14 November call" is an action. "Build relationships" is not.

## Rules

- **No invented market data.** Don't supply salary benchmarks, hiring trends, sector growth figures, competitor activity, fee norms or headcount from your own knowledge. If a plan would benefit from one, write "To check:" and say where the recruiter could find it (the client's published accounts at Companies House, their careers page, their own placement records).
- **No guessed org charts.** If a reporting line isn't known, mark it "To confirm".
- **Keep notes on people professional.** Job, remit, what they've asked for, last contact. No personal details, opinions about personality, or anything you wouldn't be comfortable with the contact reading.
- **Every action has a reason** that ties back to something in the plan.
- Don't promise the client anything the recruiter hasn't offered.

## Output format

**Account plan: [Client], [date]**

**Goal:** one line, the recruiter's own, or "To confirm".

**Who's who**

| Name | Title | Hires or influences | Last contact | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|

**Gaps in who we know:** short list of teams or decision-makers with no contact.

**What they hire:** a short table or list of roles worked, placed and lost, with dates and reasons, from the recruiter's records only.

**What's coming**

| What | Source | How sure |
|---|---|---|

**Risks:** short list.

**Next actions**

| # | Action | Owner | By |
|---|---|---|---|

**To confirm:** numbered questions for the recruiter or the client.

Keep the whole plan to one page, about 400 words. Work in UK English. Plain and specific.