again this is a “cop out”
Any sales has stages hence the funnel and the deal stage cycle.
Its crazy that according to you any sales cycle I start will just let me have an automation in the first response and then the rest has to be manual labouring in sales. Since I work with digital ad sales (and compete with programmatic ads) that is just not a dooable option. Since Ideally at any time I want to have a sales funnel with about 120-130 live deals in different stages. Being confident that the sequences take care of the funnel and all the follow up and reminders in the early cycles.
So I can put my energy on where its best suited meetings, proposal and closing deals.