# negotiation-concession-planner

Builds a pre-call concession plan: every lever priced by cost to you and value to the buyer, each give tied to a reciprocal get.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 25600 installs · ★ 3
- Author: Maya-Beth Finotti
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/mbfinotti/sales-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/negotiation-concession-planner/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-14
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/negotiation-concession-planner

## What it does

The skill produces a ledger of what you can trade in a pricing or contract conversation. Each item is scored on two axes: what it costs you and what it is worth to the buyer. The ledger is then tiered — first moves, mid, last resort — with the best value per unit of cost at the top of each tier rather than the cheapest item first.

Before building anything, it interviews you one question per message: what you sell and at what price, B2B or B2C and which segment, who sits across the table — decision maker, procurement, or a champion without authority, what the buyer has asked for so far, your discount authority band and who approves beyond it, which non-price levers you can move, what you want in return, your walk-away alternative, and the date the deal must land. It also asks about your effort ceiling: delivery capacity you can commit and approvals you can realistically collect. Those answers re-rank the inventory, and a low ceiling deletes levers instead of demoting them — the skill names which ones it struck.

Every give is paired with a named reciprocal get and the approval level it needs, bounded by a written walk-away line. The skill treats your existing approval matrix as an input and never designs one. For quantifying deal value or scripting price rebuttals, the author points to separate skills in the same repository.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/sales-skills --skill negotiation-concession-planner -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/negotiation-concession-planner/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/negotiation-concession-planner/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/sales-skills --skill negotiation-concession-planner -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/negotiation-concession-planner/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/sales-skills --skill negotiation-concession-planner -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/negotiation-concession-planner/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mbfinotti/sales-skills negotiation-concession-planner
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/negotiation-concession-planner/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/sales-skills --skill negotiation-concession-planner -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/mbfinotti/sales-skills --path skills/negotiation-concession-planner
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/negotiation-concession-planner/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/sales-skills --skill negotiation-concession-planner -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/mbfinotti/sales-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/negotiation-concession-planner/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- prepare a concession list before a buyer call
- price each lever by cost to the seller and value to the buyer
- pair every give with a required reciprocal get
- set a BATNA-based walk-away point
- lay out non-price levers: terms, payment, scope, service, risk

## Example prompts
- The buyer wants 20% off — build a concession plan before the call
- Procurement sent redlines, draft a give-get plan with approval levels
- Help me work out the walk-away point if we can't reach a deal

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: negotiation-concession-planner
description: Builds a pre-negotiation concession plan for a pricing or contract conversation - every tradeable lever priced by cost-to-us vs value-to-them, tiered, each give paired with a required reciprocal get and its approval level, plus a BATNA-based walk-away. Covers B2B (terms, scope, service, risk, price protection) and B2C (bundles, financing, trade allowance). Use whenever the user mentions a discount request, procurement, redlines, give-get trades, walk-away point, or "the buyer wants 20% off", even without the word negotiation. Do NOT use for quantifying the value (mbfinotti/sales-skills@deal-value-calc) or scripting price rebuttals (mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-objection-handling).
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Maya-Beth Finotti
  version: "1.4.8"
---

# Concession Planner

Produce a pre-call concession plan: a tiered ledger of what the seller can trade, priced by cost-to-us vs value-to-them, every give paired with a required reciprocal get and the approval level it needs, bounded by a written walk-away line.

A concession plan is a preparation artifact, not an in-call improvisation. Mid-negotiation, emotional engagement degrades judgment of relative value - so the gives, the gets, the prices, and the limits get written before the conversation starts.

## Interview

Ask before planning. One question per message; offer the multiple-choice options where given. Skip anything already answered by prior context.

1. What are you selling, and at what price point is the deal on the table?
2. Is this B2B or B2C, and which segment: (a) enterprise, (b) SMB / mid-market, (c) consumer?
3. Who is the counterpart: (a) the decision maker, (b) procurement / purchasing, (c) a champion or influencer without final authority, (d) unknown?
4. What has the buyer actually asked for so far: (a) a price discount, (b) better terms - payment, contract length, risk, (c) more scope for the same price, (d) nothing yet, but you expect pushback?
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