---
name: negotiation-prep
description: >-
  A live role-play for a high-stakes negotiation: the AI plays the buyer, pushes back, and gives feedback, so reps rehearse objections before the real call.
  Task type: Create. Built for Sales.
  Use when the request sounds like "Negotiation Role-Play Prep".
  Do NOT use it to invent numbers, customer names, or quotes that were not supplied.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: The Revenue AI Report
  suite: Deal Strategy and Negotiation
  version: "1.0"
  source: https://www.therevenueaireport.com/prompts/negotiation-prep
---

# Negotiation Role-Play Prep

A live role-play for a high-stakes negotiation: the AI plays the buyer, pushes back, and gives feedback, so reps rehearse objections before the real call.

One job only: a live role-play for a high-stakes negotiation: the AI plays the buyer, pushes back, and gives feedback, so reps rehearse objections before the real call. Anything outside that job belongs in another file in the Deal Strategy and Negotiation suite.

## When to use this skill

- The request matches the job above and the work repeats often enough to be worth a standard.
- You have, or can ask for, the inputs listed below.
- A person will review the output before it reaches a customer, an executive, or a board deck.

## When not to use it

- The answer needs a number, a benchmark, or a quote nobody supplied. Ask for it instead of producing one.
- The task is a different job in the same suite. Open that file rather than stretching this one.
- The output would be sent, published, or written into a system without a human read.

## Inputs to collect first

- negotiation context

Ask for anything missing before running. Do not fill a gap with a plausible guess.

## Process

1. Confirm the job, the audience, and the decision the output feeds.
2. Collect the inputs above. Name anything still missing out loud.
3. Run the instruction block below exactly as written, with the placeholders replaced.
4. Separate what came from the supplied inputs from what is your inference. Label the inference.
5. Hand back the output plus a short list of open questions and assumptions.

## Instruction block

Run this text with the placeholders filled in.

```text
In this task, we will practice for an important negotiation through role-playing. Negotiation role-plays allow you to prepare strategies, practice your communication, and get feedback in a risk-free environment before the real negotiation.

Preparation is key for successful negotiations, especially high-stakes ones with multiple stakeholders involved. Let's start by analyzing the context you provided:

<negotiation_context>
{$NEGOTIATION_CONTEXT}
</negotiation_context>

Based on this context, think through the following:
- Key interests and priorities for you and the other party
- Potential tradeoffs, compromises or creative solutions
- Your opening offer and your walkaway point
- How to build rapport and handle objections

Once you have a negotiation strategy in mind, we will role-play the negotiation. I will take on the role of the customer's decision makers. Provide your opening statements to kick off the role-play, and we will go back-and-forth negotiating just like a real scenario.

After each role-play round, I will provide feedback on your negotiation approach, communication style, and suggestions for improvement. We can do multiple rounds of role-playing, adjusting your strategy each time based on the feedback.

The goal is to help you feel prepared and confident going into the actual negotiation. Let me know when you're ready to begin the role-play!
```

## Decision rules

- Supplied evidence beats inference. If the two disagree, say so and keep the evidence.
- Unknown is a valid answer. Write "unknown" rather than estimating.
- Keep one recommendation per output. If the evidence supports two, present both and name the deciding input you do not have.
- Match the reading level of a working operator. Short sentences. Explain any term the reader may not use daily.

## Quality checks

- Every number, name, date, and quote traces to an input the user supplied.
- No vendor claim is repeated as fact without naming the source.
- Assumptions are listed separately from findings.
- The output answers the original request and nothing else.
- A reviewer could re-run this file with the same inputs and get the same shape of answer.

## Guardrails

- Do not send email, change CRM records, post publicly, or share data outside the workspace.
- Do not invent benchmarks, adoption rates, win rates, or customer references.
- Flag anything that needs a human decision instead of deciding it.

## Source

- Prompt page: https://www.therevenueaireport.com/prompts/negotiation-prep
- Suite: https://www.therevenueaireport.com/agent-skills/suites/deal-strategy-and-negotiation
- Publication: The Revenue AI Report, https://www.therevenueaireport.com