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You sent a proposal, a quote, or a pitch, and the silence since has started to feel personal. Pick what you sent and when, and get a plain answer: too soon to follow up, or exactly which day it stops being pushy and starts being normal.
Nothing here is uploaded or saved — the calculation runs entirely in your browser.
Follow up too soon and you look anxious or, worse, like you do not trust your own pitch. Wait too long and the moment passes — the client has already picked someone else, the hiring manager has moved to the next stack of resumes. There is no universal right answer, but there is a professional norm, and most people guess at it under stress instead of just knowing it.
These are general business-communication norms, not a measurement of your specific email — this tool has no tracking pixel and reads nothing about the recipient. It only applies a consistent rule to the date you give it:
A follow-up timer can tell you when it is socially fine to ask. It cannot tell you whether they actually opened the email in the first place — that is a different problem, and guessing at it is the whole reason the silence after sending feels so bad. Vidi puts a WhatsApp-style tick directly in Gmail, Outlook.com and Yahoo Mail: grey when it sends, green the moment it is opened, visible in your inbox for free with no signup. If you are curious how that compares to guessing from etiquette rules alone, see how to know if someone read your email. Curious whether an email someone sent you is tracking your opens? Run it through the free email tracking checker.
Three business days is the standard professional norm for a proposal or pitch to a new client — long enough to not look impatient, short enough that you have not been forgotten. Quotes and estimates follow the same window. A reply inside an already-active conversation can be followed up sooner, after about two business days.
Yes, but give it longer — around five business days. Hiring loops run on the recruiter or hiring manager's own internal schedule, which is usually slower than a single inbox, so an early follow-up rarely speeds anything up and can read as impatient.
No. This calculator only applies general business-etiquette timing rules to the date and time you enter — it does not read, track or store anything about the email itself. If you want to know for certain whether an email was opened rather than estimate from etiquette norms, that is what Vidi's read receipts are for.
Recipients mostly do not check work email at the same rate on Saturday and Sunday, so counting weekend days against the wait would make every Friday-sent email look overdue by Monday morning. The calculator counts business days only. It does not currently account for public holidays.
Vidi shows a green tick in Gmail, Outlook.com and Yahoo Mail the second your email is opened — free to see in-inbox, no signup required.
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