For anyone about to negotiate a deal, a raise, an offer or a hard conversation
Walk AwayPrepare one negotiation before the room - then rehearse the reply.
Seventy percent of a negotiation is decided before anyone sits down. Write the mandate first: for every axis on the table, your opening, your ideal, your real objective, the point where you must check with someone, and your walk-away. Your browser checks it for gaps and order, suggests a precise anchor, works out a concession ladder that shrinks step by step and the zone of agreement when you know their limit, reads what they have said, and flags any planned line that asks why, splits the difference or says your walk-away out loud. Then the plan, and the reply to what they just said - trades, never gifts.
The situation free
The mandate - every axis on the table free
Price | higher | $240k | $220k | $200k | $180k | $160k - entry is what you open with, rupture is where you walk. Write figures as you would say them ($240k, 36 months, 1.5%); words are fine for a title or a clause. This sheet stays in your browser unless you run or save.
Your lines, and theirs free
Worked out so far free
What the page flags
The six intake answers
The mandate, the ladder and the zone of agreement
Their words, and your planned lines
The files free
The mandate as a private sheet (never send it), and everything the page worked out.
The plan metered
Pricing as soon as the session is ready...
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Caveats
Caveats
The page's check of this reply
Saved negotiations
How it works - and what is sourced
The order is the skill's: the intake (stage, stakes, counterparty, their exact words, your authority, your walk-away), the map of who decides, the mandate axis by axis (the Mandascan: entry, ideal, objective, escalation, rupture, with the rupture sized by your BATNA), then the moves - the anchor, the concession ladder of trades, five or six calibrated questions, an accusation audit, a shared common objective, the tactical pause - and a pre-mortem. In the room: triage the no (emotional, belief, bad faith, identity, tactical), then label, ask, and hold the line.
The page's own arithmetic: the ladder concedes 50, then 30, then 20 percent of the distance from your entry to your objective; the Ackerman steps are the skill's 65, 85, 95 and 100 percent of target for a buyer, with a precise final figure; the precise anchor nudges a round entry to a calculated-looking one. Your escalation points and walk-aways are marked private: no line meant for the other side may carry them.