Autopsy honestly
"Lost on price" and "lost to a competitor" are usually translations of the same sentence: this deal was mis-qualified at entry, and nobody wanted to say so while it still looked like coverage.
“The last meeting only reveals the first one.”
Qualification is a decision, not a form
Fields filled in a CRM are not qualification. Qualification is a deliberate choice to spend your scarcest resource — senior attention — on this account and not another.
Design the first call
Problem, power, timeline. If the first conversation cannot establish all three, the deal enters the pipeline as fiction. Fiction is expensive at the end.