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Offer Negotiation Script Builder

Build a ready-to-use phone script for your negotiation ask, specific number, clean rationale, and the language that keeps the conversation professional.

The Problem This Solves

The ask that lands confidently is the one that was written before the call, not improvised during it.

Most candidates know they should negotiate. The part that trips them up is not the decision to ask, it is the moment on the phone when they have to deliver the specific words. This builder generates a ready-to-use script matched to your situation: base salary ask, competing offer disclosure, or full-package negotiation. Practice it until it sounds natural. Then make the call.

The Structure That Works

Enthusiasm for the role. Specific ask with a number. One market-grounded rationale. Stop. That four-part structure is all you need. This tool builds it out for you based on your inputs.

Base Salary Ask

Build the standard ask script: enthusiasm, specific number, one rationale, clean stop.

Competing Offer Disclosure

Generate the language for disclosing a competing offer professionally, transparent, warm, no pressure.

Non-Salary Ask

Build the ask for signing bonus, remote flexibility, review timeline, or title when the base is firm.

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Build Your Negotiation Script

Fill in your situation and click Generate. The tool builds a ready-to-use phone script. Read it out loud twice before the call so it sounds natural, not rehearsed.

01Your Situation

Start with the basics. These inputs shape which script structure is most appropriate for your negotiation.

02Your Rationale

Choose the rationale that best supports your ask. You will use one, the strongest one, in the script. Using more than one dilutes the ask.

The strongest rationales: Published market data for this role, level, and geography. A competing offer with a specific number. The scope or complexity of this role relative to your experience. Choose one and state it briefly.
Add the specific detail that makes the rationale concrete, the range you found, the number on the other offer, or the scope element that supports the ask.
03Non-Salary Ask (Optional)

If the base is firm and you want to ask about another element, fill this in. The tool generates a second script for the non-salary ask to use if the base conversation closes without movement.

Your Negotiation Script

Click Generate to build your ready-to-use phone script. Read it out loud before the call until it sounds like your own words.

Fill in your situation above and click Generate to build your negotiation script.
Companion Tool

Track every lever in your negotiation.

The Negotiation Lever Tracker maps every element of the full compensation package and helps you sequence the conversation when multiple items are on the table, including competing offers.

Open the Negotiation Lever Tracker