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Manager Action Planner · part of Lumina AI

Ask who needs help. Help them before the day is over.

Managers ask Lumina about team performance and bottlenecks in plain language. Lumina finds the reps who need attention, explains why, recommends the intervention and sends the email or notification from the same screen.

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Team console · North regionWed 7 Oct · 12:40 PM
Who is falling behind on today's beat, and why?

3 of 22 reps are below 40% of planned visits at midday.

AK

Amit K. · 2 of 9

Disconnected since 10:50, location off

Disconnected
NS

Neha S. · 3 of 8

Stationary 95 min at one location

Stagnant
RM

Ravi M. · 2 of 10

4 visits cancelled by salesperson

Cancellations

Recommended intervention

Notify Amit to turn location back on. Call Neha, stationary 95 min. Ask Ravi for cancellation reasons on 4 visits.

Send all 3Edit messages

In short

The F1 Agent Manager Action Planner is a Lumina AI capability for sales and field managers. Managers ask about field agent performance, operational bottlenecks, users requiring attention and execution issues, and Lumina answers from live F1 Agent and Salesforce data.

It then supports taking action from the same interaction, such as sending an email or notification to the relevant employee. The workflow is identify the problem, understand the reason, recommend an intervention and take the intervention. It suits field sales managers in FMCG, distribution and service organizations running large mobile teams.

The real problem

Managers find problems on Friday that started on Monday.

A manager with 30 reps cannot watch 30 dots on a map. Dashboards show what happened, but they don't say which three people need a call right now, or why. By the time a weekly review spots a pattern, the beats are missed and the month is half gone.

And ten incomplete visits look the same in a report whether they were ten customer cancellations or one rep who stopped working at noon.

The intervention window

Issue starts
Lumina flags it
Weekly report
Within the day: a nudge can still recover visits, orders and coverage.
After the week: the only option is a conversation about what went wrong.

Why dashboards are not enough

"Rep X has a problem" is where most tools stop.

Good field management has always followed the same loop. Experienced managers do it in their heads. The issue is that the loop breaks at scale, because each step takes time a manager doesn't have.

With reports alone

Identify: scan several dashboards.

Understand: open each rep's visits, cancellations and location trail.

Decide: work out the right response from memory.

Act: switch to email or WhatsApp and type it out.

Four tools, about 20 minutes per rep. It rarely happens mid-day.

With the Manager Action Planner

Identify: ask one question.

Understand: Lumina shows the reason, with cancellation types and stagnation.

Recommend: it drafts the intervention per person.

Intervene: send the email or notification in one tap.

One conversation, under two minutes. It happens while it still matters.

Signals a good manager AI should read

Attendance status

Present, absent or disconnected, and why.

Stagnation

Unusually long time at one location.

Cancellation reasons

Customer-cancelled vs salesperson-cancelled vs missed.

Outcomes, not only visits

Orders, tasks and audits completed per visit.

Territory coverage

Important customers not visited recently.

Expense exceptions

Soft limit breaches awaiting approval.

Bring last month's field data. We'll show you the interventions Lumina would have flagged, and when.

Get a team bottleneck review

How it works

Identify. Understand. Recommend. Intervene.

The four steps happen in one Lumina conversation, on top of the data F1 Agent already captures from your field team.

01

Identify

Lumina surfaces the reps, territories or visits that need attention.

3 reps below 40% of planned visits at midday

02

Understand

It explains the reason using attendance, location, cancellation and outcome data.

Neha: stationary 95 min. Ravi: 4 salesperson-cancelled visits.

03

Recommend

It proposes a specific intervention for each person.

Call Neha. Ask Ravi for reasons. Reassign 2 key outlets.

04

Intervene

The manager sends the email or notification from the same conversation.

Notifications sent to 3 reps at 12:42 PM

Capabilities

Questions managers ask, and what happens next.

AreaThe manager asksLumina findsAction from the same screen
Performance“Who are my bottom five reps on orders this month?”Ranked reps with visits, orders per visit and trend.Email each rep with their numbers and a coaching note.
Bottlenecks“Why is coverage down in Noida this week?”Customer-cancelled visits up, one rep absent two days.Notify the backup rep to cover priority outlets.
Attention“Who is disconnected or stuck right now?”Disconnected and stagnant users with duration and last location.Send an alert asking them to go live again.
Execution“Which reps skipped shelf audits on their beat?”Visits completed without the assigned visit task.Remind reps that audits are required before check out.
Expenses“Any soft limit breaches waiting on me?”Expense exceptions pending approval, by rep and category.Open the approvals or request changes with a comment.

The Manager Action Planner builds on F1 Agent's attendance and live tracking, visit and cancellation data and expense approvals, so answers reflect what actually happened in the field.

Use cases

Three managers, three interventions.

FMCG · Area sales manager

A Wednesday rescue, not a Friday post-mortem.

Problem

Coverage drops mid-week and nobody notices until the review.

Lumina

Flags three reps behind at noon with reasons and drafts a nudge for each.

Outcome

Most of the missed visits recovered the same afternoon.

Distribution · Regional head

Separating performance from bad luck.

Problem

Ten incomplete visits look like a performance issue.

Lumina

Shows eight were customer-cancelled and two salesperson-cancelled.

Outcome

One targeted conversation instead of a team-wide warning.

Field service · Service manager

Workload balanced before SLAs slip.

Problem

One technician carries twice the open work orders of peers.

Lumina

Identifies the overload and SLA risk, recommends a reassignment.

Outcome

Dispatcher notified and jobs rebalanced the same day.

2xfaster manager intervention on missed beats
5 hrssaved per manager per week on report review
-35%salesperson-cancelled visits after one quarter
+40%outlet coverage in 6 months

[Indicative figures, to be replaced with verified customer results]

Why F1 Agent

How managers keep track today, and the trade-offs.

What mattersManager Action PlannerExcel reports and WhatsApp groupsGPS tracking app outside SalesforceSalesforce dashboards built in-house
Finds who needs attentionAsk in plain languageManual, end of dayLocation onlyIf you know which report to open
Explains the reasonCancellation types, stagnation, outcomesAsk the repNo business contextPartly, with drill-down
Takes the actionEmail or notification from the same screenSeparate messageSometimes an alertNo
Record of interventionsIn SalesforceLost in chatsIn a separate toolNot captured

Start with one region

Give one manager the planner. Compare the month.

Pilot with one region's managers on your existing Salesforce org. Lumina recommends, your managers decide what to send, and messages follow your configured channels. Expand to more regions once you see the difference in coverage and cancellations.

Plan a regional pilot
"We used to find out on Friday what went wrong on Monday. Now I see the whole team live, and Lumina tells me who needs help before the day is over."
[Client name]Head of Sales, [Consumer goods company]

FAQ

Manager Action Planner questions.

What is the Manager Action Planner?

It is a Lumina AI capability in F1 Agent for managers. You ask about field agent performance, bottlenecks, users requiring attention or execution issues, and Lumina answers from your field data, recommends an intervention and lets you send an email or notification to the employee from the same interaction.

What data does it use?

It uses the data F1 Agent captures in Salesforce: attendance, live location status, stagnation, visits and cancellation reasons, visit tasks and orders, territory coverage, expenses and approvals.

Can Lumina send messages without the manager’s approval?

The manager reviews and sends the intervention. Lumina recommends and drafts it; the manager decides.

Which actions are supported?

Sending an email or a notification to the relevant employee are core actions. Other supported communications and actions depend on your configuration.

How is this different from Salesforce dashboards?

Dashboards show metrics. The Manager Action Planner answers a question in plain language, explains the reason behind the numbers and lets the manager act on it in the same place.

Does it work for field service managers?

Yes. Service managers can ask about technician productivity, open work orders and SLA risk, and notify the relevant technician or dispatcher.

Can it tell the difference between customer and rep cancellations?

Yes, because F1 Agent captures a reason for every cancellation or reschedule, such as missed, cancelled by customer or cancelled by salesperson.

Does it support regional languages?

Lumina supports multilingual interaction. Enabled languages are confirmed during configuration.

How do we roll it out?

Most organizations start with one region’s managers, review the interventions for a month, and expand in phases. It runs on your existing Salesforce org.

Related capabilities and roles

Lumina AI overview ›The intelligence and action layer Attendance and Live Tracking ›Punch in, live location and stagnation alerts Sales Managers ›Live team view and one click intervention AI Shelf Audit ›Act on merchandising gaps AI Dispatch ›Rebalance technician workload Multilingual AI ›Ask in the language you manage in

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