Follow-Up Email Generator

In short A follow-up has to add something. "Just bumping this up" and "circling back" add nothing, and they put the burden of remembering back on the person who already did not reply. Every follow-up should carry one new thing: a piece of information, a relevant example, a deadline that has become real, or a genuinely easier ask than the last one. The rhythm that works is spacing them further apart as they go — a few days, then a week, then two — because a reply that has not come in ten days is not coming because of frequency. Three or four is usually the sensible limit, and the last one should say so: a short note that you will stop following up, leaving the door open, gets a reply surprisingly often precisely because it asks for nothing. The reframe that helps most is to assume silence means the email was deprioritised rather than rejected. That produces a follow-up that makes acting easier, which is the only kind that works.