Why your alternative is the leverage
You stop anchoring on the 12% the vendor wants or the 4% you'd like, and start negotiating from your real alternative — where the leverage actually lives.
Sales & Client Work / Advanced
The Negotiation Edge
Plan your offers, anticipate the other side, and draft terms with AI in your corner.
The problem
It starts with the situation you're actually in.
You already know how to negotiate. You've closed deals that mattered, sat across from people who lied with a straight face, and learned to read a room well enough to know when "we'll think about it" means yes.
You finished a hard deal last month, and it closed at terms you can live with. But ask most experienced negotiators where the real preparation went, and the honest answer is the blank page.
Outcomes
What you'll be able to do.
The first number isn't the problem
You look past the headline offer — $260,000 base, a four-year equity grant, no signing bonus, a start date a month out — to the terms that actually move.
Adapt when the table runs faster than the model
You walk in with a reservation value, a counterpart model, three packaged offers, and a written concession sequence — then adjust when the session never ends the way you planned.
Where machine counsel actually breaks
You spot where AI-assisted negotiation fails: not the obvious errors you catch, but the confident, fluent, plausible output that survives your review because it sounds exactly like the truth.
Inside the book
A closer look at the work inside.
The New Bargaining Table — Reader Scorecard
Rate your last significant negotiation on each criterion to see where the cost of preparation ran high enough that you skipped it — interest mapping, where you wrote down the other side's interests and not just their position, and reservation math, where you modeled your walk-away number.
The Same Tool, Two Outcomes
You're negotiating a two-year software renewal with a vendor whose list price jumped 22% at quote. Used well, an AI model becomes your overnight analyst: you feed it the current contract, the new quote, your usage data, and three competing vendors' public pricing.
Is your diagnosis ready to negotiate against?
Before you accept a single meeting, confirm each of these is true, and score yourself honestly — a weak diagnosis is worse than none, because it breeds false confidence. Every stated demand has at least one underlying interest written beneath it, each labeled evidenced or inferred, plus a real ratification chain.
A diagnosis is a falsifiable model, not a summary checklist
- Interests on both sides. For each party, list the stated positions, then write the interest you believe sits beneath each one.
- Constraints. Budget cycles, regulatory limits, prior commitments, internal policy floors. Constraints are interests the counterpart cannot move even if persuaded, so confusing the.
- The ratification chain. Who must say yes, in what order, for this to become real? The person across the table is rarely the last signature.
- Information status. For each unknown, decide whether it is missing (no one has it; it must be discovered at the table or through research) or scarce (it exists, the counterpart.
Case study: reading a renewal you think is routine
You're renewing a SaaS contract with a vendor. Their account manager opens by asking for a 12% uplift "in line with inflation" and a three-year commitment. The lazy diagnosis: they want more money and lock-in. Run the layers.
A diagnosis is a falsifiable model, not a summary checklistInside the book
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Table of contents
10 chapters, built to be read in order.
01
The New Bargaining Table
02
Diagnosing the Deal Before You Speak
03
BATNA, Reservation Values, and the Math of Walking Away
04
Building the Counterpart Model
05
Designing the Offer Architecture
06
Drafting Terms With AI in Your Corner
07
Communication, Tone, and Tactical Empathy at Scale
08
Live Negotiation—Adapting When the Plan Meets Reality
09
Risk, Ethics, and the Limits of Machine Counsel
10
Building Your Negotiation Operating System
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49
Exercises, checklists & tools
10
Chapters
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