Hire an AI price and payment negotiation planner

Everything it can hand back

Your task sets the actual outputs. The specialist picks the methods that cover them.

• Your stance, what a win is for each side and a kind way to say your walk-away line
• A map of their side, wants, pressures, where they are right and how they can save face
• A range of what they can pay, how your ask compares and one sum or set of terms to propose
• An opening that names their fears first, questions to ask and a safe-no question

How it does the job well

• Research the buyer and their company before writing. One specific, true detail beats ten generic lines.
• Lead with the buyer's problem and outcome, not your features.
• Give every message one clear, low-effort next step.
• Qualify honestly. Record budget, authority, need and timing as known, unknown or assumed.

Mistakes it avoids

• Making claims about results, prices or terms that are not approved.
• Long first messages that ask for too much.
• Updating pipeline numbers on hope rather than evidence.

What a good result looks like

An example, not your task: You are setting a price, fee, rent, debt or settlement and fear it is more than they can pay.

• Step 1: Stance. Each side's likely stance, what a win means for each, and a kind way to say your walk-away line.
• Step 2: Their side. What they want, the pressure on them, where they are right, and a way for them to save face.
• Step 3: The sum. Your ask split into parts with ranges, what they can pay, the gap, and one proposed sum or set of terms.
• Step 4: The call. Your opening lines, questions to ask, a safe-no question and what to listen for.
• Hand-back summary. Each step's file, any step not run and why, and every MISSING line in one list.

How the work is checked

• Your walk-away line is written down before the talk, with what you would do instead.
• Every figure for their means has a source or is marked as a guess.
• The proposed sum sits inside their range, or the report says plainly that your ask is above it.
• The opening names a fear of theirs and makes no promise you cannot keep.
• States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.

These checks have not been run against a model yet. Your AI uses them to check its own work.

A second opinion

Before it hands back, your AI reviews the draft the way Chris Voss and Dale Carnegie would. This is a way of reviewing the work. It does not mean they wrote or endorse it.

Capabilities

• Set your stance and walk-away line. Names the stance each side is likely to take, what a win means to each, and the point where you would rather have no deal.
• Map their side. Writes what they want, why a fair person in their place would act as they do, and how they can change course without losing face. Steps 3 and 4 both read that map.
• Test the ask against what they can pay. Uses what step 2 found about their pressures. Splits your ask into parts, gives each a low, middle and high figure, and works out what they can pay and still keep something to run on. It ends on one sum or set of terms, which step 4 builds on.
• Write the opening and the questions. Uses their side from step 2 and the sum from step 3. Says their likely fears out loud first, adds how and what questions, a safe-no question and a plan for a fast yes.

How the role works

1. Checks your task, context and available tools.
2. Picks the methods needed and prepares a work plan.
3. Carries out supported tasks, with each method's limits and review gates.
4. Checks the real deliverables and corrects supported faults.
5. Hands back files, evidence and unresolved gaps.

Your specialist's working setup

Download the base specialist without a task form or account. README.md and SETUP.md explain how to use the folder. SOUL.md defines its scope. INTAKE.md asks missing questions inside your AI. PLAYBOOK.md, SKILLS.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, CHECKS.md and HANDOFF.md guide the work and its checked deliverables.

Complete associated skills, supporting files and licences are included. Choose only the methods needed for the actual task. Keep context, working files and accepted feedback in your AI project.

Use this specialist through MCP or the API

Call prepare_specialist with role_id prepare-a-price-talk-with-a-sum-they-can-pay only. No task is required to load it. Your AI asks what job you need done, what you want back and which relevant context it can use.

For task-led hiring, call find_specialist, explain the suggested specialists and let the user accept or change the team.

Complete ZIP: Download base specialist. API: GET /api/v1/specialists/prepare-a-price-talk-with-a-sum-they-can-pay/pack. The host AI supplies its own model, tools and execution; a pack does not connect accounts or run a task.

Inputs and helpful context

The specialist starts from the task brief. Only active methods require their inputs.

For the primary method, when used

• The deal, who is involved, what you want and what is at stake
• Your terms, split into parts if you can (price, fees, dates)
• What you know of their means, income, cash, costs, what they have said about money
• Your must-haves and your walk-away point, if you have them
• What the other side has said so far, in their words (optional)

Tools and access

• Any good chat AI: Reading evidence and sorting fact from guess is text work any strong chat AI does well.
• A trusted adviser: For big money or legal matters, check the plan with a professional.
• Any good chat AI: Weighing motives and sorting known from guessed facts is text work any strong chat AI does well.
• A notes app: Keep one note per person so each view builds on the last.
• A spreadsheet: Hold the parts, ranges and schedule so numbers add up.
• Any good chat AI: Structuring the case and writing the reason is text work.
• Any good chat AI: Planning and wording lines is text work any strong chat AI does well with this skill.
• A notes app: Keep the running order on one screen during the call.

Functions and deliverables

• Price and payment negotiation planner: Share deal terms, your limits and evidence about the other side. Get a position, proposed amount and opening questions.
  • Your stance, what a win is for each side and a kind way to say your walk-away line
  • A map of their side, wants, pressures, where they are right and how they can save face
  • A range of what they can pay, how your ask compares and one sum or set of terms to propose
  • An opening that names their fears first, questions to ask and a safe-no question
• Deal and dispute negotiation planner: Plan a negotiation or dispute: see each side's likely stance, what a win means for both, and the point where you walk away.
  • The stance each side is likely to take, with evidence
  • Your courage and consideration scores, each with one action
  • A list of wins for you, and a marked guess at wins for them
  • Your no-deal line and how to say it, plus a brief for the talk
• Disagreement perspective mapper: Describe a disagreement and what the person said. Get a fair view of their side, with facts and guesses kept separate.
  • What they want, in their words, each line marked known or guess
  • The fair reason they act as they do, and where they are right
  • What they gain and lose, and how they could keep their pride
  • Questions to ask them to check the guesses
• Deal payment checker: Share the amount asked for and what you know about their finances. Get a payment range, a fixed proposal and what could change it.
  • The ask split into parts with ranges
  • A payment range for them, with assumptions
  • A verdict and a fixed sum or terms
  • What would change the number
• Negotiation call prep planner: Plan a hard negotiation call with an opening, feeling labels, how and what questions and the facts to learn before you give anything away.
  • An opening that names what they may fear about you
  • Feeling labels and how and what questions
  • A safe-no question and a test for a fast yes
  • A ranked list of facts to find
• Brand profile builder: Share your website. Get a reusable profile covering your products, customers, voice and approved claims, with sources.
  • A folder of eight plain files, from a start file for your AI to a claims list and a change log
  • A tag on every fact, and every claim marked approved, pending or banned
  • A two-sentence diagnosis of your biggest gap, and a list of what's missing and who can answer it
  • A short slice for your next step, if you name one
• Chris Voss: Prepare a difficult conversation using Chris Voss’s recorded approach. Summarise the other side, ask calm questions and test how an agreement will work.
  • Your problem worked on the way Chris Voss would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Chris Voss's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step
• Dale Carnegie: Rewrite a tense message or prepare a people conversation using Dale Carnegie’s recorded approach. See the other side, give sincere credit and ask clearly.
  • Your problem worked on the way Dale Carnegie would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Dale Carnegie's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step

Tasks you can use it for

• You are setting a price, fee, rent, debt or settlement and fear it is more than they can pay.
• The other side has more power, or you will deal with them again.
• You want a fair number you can defend, not a split in the middle.

Limits to check before starting

• You are buying something small and the other side has no money to check. Skip this and just ask for a fair price.
• You only need the call lines and already know your stance and their side. Use the Negotiation call prep planner alone.
• You are upset and the talk is about a row, not a price. Use the Difficult conversation repair planner.

Best way to use this role

Give it one clear outcome, the actual files and a definition of done. Keep the work in one AI project so it can reuse checked context and earlier files.

• Download the handoff pack. It's a zip with HANDOFF.md and every skill file this workflow uses.
• Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say "Follow HANDOFF.md".
• Paste what you know of their money, even rough numbers. Without it the sum step has to guess, and it will say so.
• Read the sum and the walk-away line before you open the talk. They are yours to change.

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/prepare-a-price-talk-with-a-sum-they-can-pay for its role instructions and pinned sources.

This is a prepared AI role. No task has run. Your AI carries out authorized work using its available tools and reports the actual deliverables and checks.