src/api/config.js

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ export const STAGES = [
   // 7 September: a lead waited for its three documents inside "Contacted", so
   // the queue that most needed watching was the one that did not exist.
   { uid: 'zk-state-docs',      name: 'Document Pending',         kind: 'needs',    need: 'Document collection',              by: 'the partner agent' },
-  { uid: 'zk-state-quoted',    name: 'Quote Presented',          kind: 'customer', need: 'Customer decision',                by: 'the customer', doing: 'Waiting for the customer to reply on WhatsApp' },
+  { uid: 'zk-state-quoted',    name: 'Quote Presented',          kind: 'customer', need: 'Customer decision',                by: 'the customer' },
   // The one queue where the machine stops and a person decides.
   { uid: 'zk-state-referred',  name: 'Referred to Underwriting', kind: 'needs',    need: 'Underwriting referral',            by: 'an underwriter' },
   { uid: 'zk-state-payment',   name: 'Payment Pending',          kind: 'needs',    need: 'Premium confirmation',             by: 'operations' },
@@ -135,15 +135,9 @@ const STATE_ACTIVITIES = {
     { uid: 'zk-act-quote',         label: 'Generate Quote',              by: 'Rating engine',    role: 'force' },
   ],
   'zk-state-quoted': [
-    // The customer accepts from their own phone: their WhatsApp reply is
-    // routed to Customer Reply, Engage reads it, and Engage performs this.
-    // Kept reachable — role 'force', folded away — because a customer who
-    // says yes on a CALL still needs somebody to record it, and because a
-    // reply Engage judged ambiguous has to be actionable by a person.
-    { uid: 'zk-act-accept',        label: 'Record the acceptance by hand', by: 'you, on consent',  role: 'force' },
+    { uid: 'zk-act-accept',        label: 'Record the acceptance',       by: 'you, on consent',  role: 'do' },
     { uid: 'zk-act-quote',         label: 'Re-quote',                    by: 'Engage AI',        role: 'again' },
     { uid: 'zk-act-collect-docs',  label: 'Add a document',              by: 'you',              role: 'again' },
-    { uid: 'zk-act-answer-customer', label: 'Reply to the customer',     by: 'you, on WhatsApp', role: 'again' },
     { uid: 'zk-act-kyc',           label: 'Verify KYC',                  by: 'KYC AI',           role: 'force' },
     { uid: 'zk-act-uw-screen',     label: 'Underwriting Screen',         by: 'KYC AI',           role: 'force' },
   ],
@@ -154,11 +148,7 @@ const STATE_ACTIVITIES = {
   ],
   'zk-state-payment': [
     { uid: 'zk-act-realise',       label: 'Confirm premium received',    by: 'you',              role: 'do' },
-    // Not offered: the chase is a SCHEDULED activity now (86), booked 24h
-    // out by Request Premium and re-booked at 48h to a cap of three. It
-    // carries zero roles so the scheduler can perform it at all, which means
-    // a button here would 403 for everyone. To actually reach the customer,
-    // use Reply to the customer — that sends something.
+    { uid: 'zk-act-nudge',         label: 'Chase the payment',           by: 'Engage AI',        role: 'again' },
     { uid: 'zk-act-payment',       label: 'Request Premium',             by: 'Engage AI',        role: 'force' },
   ],
   'zk-state-issued': [

src/api/permissions.js

@@ -33,11 +33,6 @@ export const ACTIVITY_ROLES = {
   'zk-act-advise':       ['ai_advisor'],
   'zk-act-quote':        ['ops_admin', 'ai_engage'],
   'zk-act-accept':       ['ops_admin', 'partner_agent', 'bank_rm', 'csr_direct'],
-  // Ops only. The customer's questions are normally Engage's, and this is
-  // the way a person answers one Engage declined — through the same WhatsApp
-  // thread, so the reply lands on the lead file instead of somewhere nobody
-  // can find it later.
-  'zk-act-answer-customer': ['ops_admin'],
   'zk-act-kyc':          ['ops_admin', 'ai_kyc'],
   'zk-act-uw-screen':    ['ops_admin', 'ai_kyc'],
   'zk-act-uw-prepare':   ['ai_uw_referral'],
@@ -49,10 +44,7 @@ export const ACTIVITY_ROLES = {
   'zk-act-uw-decline':   ['sme_underwriter'],
 
   'zk-act-payment':      ['ops_admin', 'ai_engage'],
-  // Zero roles in the workflow since 86 — the scheduler performs it, and a
-  // scheduled activity with any role list fails silently. Left here as an
-  // empty list so the mirror still records that the activity exists.
-  'zk-act-nudge':        [],
+  'zk-act-nudge':        ['ops_admin', 'ai_engage'],
   'zk-act-realise':      ['ops_admin'],
   'zk-act-onboard':      ['ops_admin', 'ai_engage'],
   'zk-act-resume':       ['ops_admin', 'partner_agent', 'bank_rm', 'csr_direct'],

src/components/Timeline.jsx

@@ -37,8 +37,6 @@ const NARRATIVE = [
   ['referral_analysis', 'Referral analysis'],
   ['uw_decision_notes', 'Underwriting decision'],
   ['documents_notes', 'Documents'],
-  ['customer_reply', 'The customer said'],
-  ['customer_answer', 'We replied'],
   ['lost_reason', 'Why it was dropped'],
   ['resume_note', 'Why now'],
 ]

src/screens/Lead.jsx

@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ const GROUPS = [
   ['Motor risk',     ['motor_reg_no','motor_make_model','motor_mfg_year','motor_cc','motor_fuel','motor_idv','motor_ncb_pct','motor_addons','motor_prev_insurer','motor_prev_policy_no','motor_prev_expiry','motor_prev_claim']],
   ['AI advice', ['ai_recommended_cover','ai_recommended_addons','ai_recommendation_rationale','ai_recommendation_confidence']],
   ['Quote',          ['product_code','quoted_od_premium','quoted_tp_premium','quoted_addon_premium','quoted_section_premiums','quoted_gst','quoted_premium','quoted_breakup','quote_valid_till']],
-  ['Conversation',   ['customer_reply','customer_reply_from','customer_answer','answer_count']],
   ['Proposal',       ['acceptance_ref','accepted_at']],
   ['KYC',            ['kyc_mode','kyc_ref','kyc_outcome','kyc_mismatch_notes']],
   ['Underwriting',   ['uw_outcome','uw_survey_required','referral_analysis','uw_referral_reason','uw_decision_notes']],
@@ -369,21 +368,6 @@ export default function Lead() {
                 </button>
               </div>
             </div>
-          ) : stage?.kind === 'customer' && stage.doing ? (
-            /* Not an agent working, and not a task of yours either — the lead
-               is with someone outside the business. Without this the screen
-               went blank at exactly the stage where an operator is most likely
-               to wonder whether something has broken. */
-            <div className="doing doing--waiting">
-              <span className="doing__wait" aria-hidden="true" />
-              <div>
-                <strong>{stage.doing}</strong>
-                <span>
-                  Their answer comes back to this lead on its own — Engage reads it and
-                  records the acceptance. Nothing is waiting on you.
-                </span>
-              </div>
-            </div>
           ) : stage?.kind === 'auto' ? (
             <div className="doing">
               <span className="doing__pulse" aria-hidden="true" />

src/screens/screens.css

@@ -1225,22 +1225,3 @@
   color: var(--zk-muted);
   margin-top: 2px;
 }
-
-/* ---- waiting on someone outside the business ----
-   Neither an agent working nor a task of yours. Grey rather than blue, and
-   no pulse: nothing is happening, and that is the correct state. */
-.doing--waiting {
-  border-color: var(--zk-line);
-  background: var(--zk-tint);
-}
-.doing--waiting strong { color: var(--zk-ink); }
-
-.doing__wait {
-  flex: none;
-  margin-top: 5px;
-  width: 10px;
-  height: 10px;
-  border-radius: 50%;
-  border: 2px solid var(--zk-grey);
-  background: transparent;
-}