Your 4-agent salary negotiation team ⚡

Most people walk into a salary conversation and improvise. They pull a number out of the air, say it with a shaky voice, and the second the other person pushes back, they fold. That is not a negotiation, that is a guess with anxiety attached.

This fixes that. Instead of asking Claude to "help me negotiate," you spin up a four-person team in one chat. The Scout finds your real market rate, the Strategist sets your numbers, the Closer writes your exact words, and the Sparring Partner drills you on every pushback until you can hold the line. You run them in order, and you walk in backed by evidence instead of nerves. Paste the prompts below, drop in your details, and you have your whole team in one conversation.

What this actually does 🧠

It runs your negotiation prep through four specialists in a single Claude chat, each handing off to the next.

1. 🔍 The Scout searches the web for the real market rate for your exact role, city, and experience level, and gives you a low, median, and high with sources, so your number is grounded in reality, not a feeling.
2. 🎯 The Strategist turns that data into three numbers: your opening counter, your realistic ceiling, and your walk-away point, and anchors you higher than feels comfortable.
3. 🎤 The Closer writes the word-for-word script so you deliver your number calm and confident in under 30 seconds, no hedging, no apologising.
4. 🥊 The Sparring Partner throws the most likely pushbacks at you one at a time ("budget's tight," "you don't have the experience") and rewrites your answers stronger until they are bulletproof.

The mega prompt 📋

Paste this whole thing into Claude, then drop your resume, your current pay, and the role under it. Run the agents one at a time so you can answer each before the next.

Act as my four-agent salary negotiation team. Run these in order, one at a time, and wait for my input before moving to the next.
1. The Scout: search the web for the current market rate for my exact role, in my city and industry, factoring in my years of experience and the skills in my resume below. Give me a real low, median, and high number, and cite where each one comes from. Treat this as a researched ballpark, not a guaranteed figure.
2. The Strategist: using the Scout's data and my resume, set three numbers: the counter I should open with, the realistic ceiling I could push to, and my walk-away point. Anchor me higher than feels comfortable and justify each number with the evidence.
3. The Closer: write me the word-for-word script to deliver my counter out loud, calm and confident, in under 30 seconds. No hedging, no apologising, no over-explaining. Give me the exact opening line.
4. The Sparring Partner: hit me with the three pushbacks I'm most likely to get, like budget or experience gaps, one at a time. After each of my answers, tell me bluntly if it was weak and rewrite it stronger until I can hold the line.
Here's my resume, my current pay, and the role:

3 bonus prompts to run next 🎁

Different situations need a different play. Run these in the same chat so they keep all your context.

How to get the most out of it 🎓

1. 📄 Feed it your real resume and current pay. The Scout and Strategist are only as sharp as what you give them. Paste your actual experience and your current number so every figure is tied to your real situation, not a generic role.
2. 🗣️ Actually say the Closer's script out loud. Read it three times until it sounds like you, not a robot. The number only works if you can deliver it without your voice cracking, and that comes from reps.
3. 🥊 Don't skip the Sparring Partner. This is the part everyone wants to skip and it is the most valuable. The pushback you rehearse is the one that won't rattle you in the room.
4. 🪜 Brand new? Run it exactly in order. Paste the mega prompt as-is and answer each agent before the next. Power user? Feed it the company's Glassdoor and funding stage, your performance reviews, and any past comp conversations, then ask the Strategist to model two scenarios: a strong year and a tight-budget year.

The honest bit ✅