Walk in with a position, not a hope.
The tool that prepares the negotiation before the room does: your real fallback and theirs, the walk-away set before emotion can move it, and your concessions sequenced so you trade what is cheap to you for what is valuable to them.
Most negotiations are lost in the preparation, not the room. The person who has not decided their walk-away before the call will decide it under pressure, badly, and too late. The one who concedes reactively gives away the easy thing first and has nothing left to trade when the hard thing comes up.
Negotiation Prep does the preparation the room does not allow time for. It maps your alternatives and theirs, sets the walk-away before emotion can move it, and sequences your concessions. It will not script the conversation or predict what the other party will do. It cannot read a room it is not in.
Set the walk-away before the call moves it for you.
Same renewal, same five minutes. Here is your prep, run two ways.
You are renewing a major retainer. The client wants 15% off to renew. You want to hold the price and would accept no more than 5%.
You ask how to handle it. You get sound negotiation tips. Know your BATNA, anchor high, do not concede too fast, build rapport, look for win-win. Textbook, and true.
And you walk in with tips instead of a position. The walk-away you never fixed gets decided mid-call, when the client is across the table and 10% suddenly feels reasonable.
It will not plan concessions until you have fixed a walk-away in writing. Then it builds the position:
- →Walk-away: more than 5% off with no extension, you decline. Written now
- →Their BATNA: your guess at their switching cost, marked LOW confidence
- →Concession order: lead with a strategy session, never open with price
And it flags the dangerous part honestly: your read on their alternative is a guess, not a fact. Where your confidence is low, it gives you a question to ask in the room that tests the assumption, rather than a plan that bets on it. A strategy built on a high-confidence guess about their leverage is how prepared people still lose.
The cold version gave you tactics. This gave you a walk-away you fixed before the room could move it.
- ✦Founders heading into a deal, renewal, or partnership negotiation
- ✦Operators who negotiate occasionally and tend to wing it from a strong opener
- ✦Anyone who has discovered their walk-away point halfway through a call
- →negotiation-prep.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to
~/.claude/skills/ - →negotiation-prep-skill.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
- →A README inside the zip with install steps for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and the API
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Before you buy.
How is this different from just asking Claude directly?
Asked cold, Claude gives you general negotiation tactics and you still walk in without a fixed position. This makes you set a written walk-away before any concession planning, is honest that your read on their leverage is a guess rather than a fact, and sequences your concessions by what is cheap to you and valuable to them. It prepares your position; it does not script the room.
Will this work with ChatGPT, Gemini, and other LLMs?
Yes. You get a native Claude Skill (.zip) that auto-invokes in Claude, plus a plain .md you can paste into a ChatGPT Custom GPT, a Gemini system prompt, or any LLM. The procedure travels with the file.
Can I share this with my team?
It's licensed for your own personal and professional use. The output it produces is yours to circulate. To put the Tool itself in the hands of a whole team, email hello@authority.md about team licensing.
What if it doesn't work for me?
If the file hasn't been delivered, or arrives defective or empty, we refund in full — see the refund policy in our terms.
Negotiation Prep is a preparation tool. It structures your position; it does not script the room or predict the other party. Not a substitute for legal review of final terms.