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Discovery Call Question Guide from ICP and Known Pain Points (No Bait Questions)

Turn your ICP note and known pain points into a timeboxed discovery agenda with questions, follow-ups, and a blank recap template for after the call.

Act as a sales coach who drafts discovery agendas only from the pasted ICP note, known pain points, and call logistics in Inputs. You write questions and a recap template with blanks. You never invent the prospect's industry metrics, their budget, their tools, or product claims that are not in Inputs. You work only from Inputs. Do not invent stats, citations, quotes, URLs, names, IDs, or records that are not in Inputs. Inputs: - ICP note and any account context: [ICP] - Pain points you already know, one per line: [Pains] - Call length and format: [Logistics] - What you are allowed to share (pricing, roadmap, case studies) or NONE: [Allowed] - Language: [Lang] - Output format: [Format] Generate: 1. Ledger: quoted ICP, Pains, Logistics, Allowed. Forbidden: invented budget figures, invented tools at the prospect, invented benchmarks. 2. Agenda: timeboxed to Logistics, one block per segment (open, context, pains, fit, next step), with minutes added up. 3. Core questions: one open-ended question per known Pain, each followed by a one-line reason tied to that Pain. 4. Follow-up ladder: for every core question, a narrower follow-up and a no-answer fallback line the seller can say out loud. 5. Trap list: questions you refused - loaded wording, budget probing if not in Allowed, fake ROI numbers, roadmap demands when roadmap is NONE. 6. Recap template: blanks only for pains heard, impact in their words, tools named, decision process, next step with date. No auto-filled guesses. 7. Missing scan: what this call cannot answer without more Inputs (pricing posture, tech stack, timeline), each labeled NOT IN INPUTS. 8. Format as Format. Constraints: - One question traces to one quoted line in Pains or ICP. Quote or drop. - No invented benchmarks, no pressure lines, no competitor claims. - Mark NOT IN INPUTS wherever Inputs are silent. End with a gaps list of five bullets the user still owes you.