Case study · founder dogfood
I came back from a conference with 80 contacts. Two weeks later I couldn't remember who was who.
My dealflow lives in Telegram. Every relationship, every lead, every referral, every "let's do something together", starts as a chat. After Affiliate World Lisbon I had roughly 80 new ones. This is what happened when they disappeared into the scroll, and what CRgraM did once I tagged those chats and let it read the history.
Numbers are illustrative, based on the founder's own operation, being verified against the actual chat export.
The situation
Three days of networking. Then ten days of silence.
At the conference I was on fire, working the room, trading @usernames, promising decks and intros and calls. Every one of those conversations landed in Telegram. New leads, old friends I hadn't spoken to in years, partners I'd been trying to reach for months. All suddenly alive, all in my DMs.
Then I flew home. And the conference chats did what every conference chat does: they sank. Under group notifications, under the day job, under the next 40 messages that came in. By day ten I genuinely could not tell you who I'd met that was new, who I'd reconnected with, or who I'd promised what.
That's the moment warm leads die, not because the opportunity was bad, but because it left your memory. So I tagged every chat from those three days and let CRgraM read them.
What it found · 10 days post-event
80
People I spoke with during the event, one tag, one filterable list
23
Flagged as going cold, silent long enough to be dying
9
Follow-ups I'd promised and quietly forgotten
3
Turned back into live conversations after one Monday of outreach
Three leads that didn't die
The ones that would have quietly disappeared.
The deck I never sent.
Met Marta on day two. She runs EU traffic for a network, asked me to send the media deck. Six days later I hadn't. CRgraM marked her NEW, noted she'd gone silent, and put her at the top of my Today list with a draft reply. I sent the deck. We have a call booked.
The person I didn't realise I already knew.
One chat felt new but wasn't. From the history I imported for that chat, CRgraM flagged it REACTIVATED: we'd actually spoken two years ago, then lost touch. That changed the whole tone of my follow-up: "great to reconnect" instead of "nice to meet you." Warmer, and it landed. This was the result on my own imported history, not a guarantee it surfaces every past contact.
The intro I promised and forgot.
Over a drink I told someone I'd introduce them to a mutual contact that week. I didn't. CRgraM surfaced it as a broken promise, my own words, pulled from a chat I'd already scrolled past. Your reputation is the sum of the small things you said you'd do. This one nearly slipped.
"The leads that die aren't the bad ones. They're the good ones that just left your head. CRgraM gave me mine back."
Kirill, founder & first customer · source published at launch
Why this generalizes
Your Telegram has the same shape.
It doesn't have to be a conference. It could be a product launch week, a city trip, a hiring push, a partner roadshow: any burst of new conversations that then drift into the noise. The structure is identical: you met people, you meant to follow up, and the chat pile swallowed them.
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