Your AI CEO walks you into the room with the same prep a procurement team would do.
You'd think this needs a lawyer + a procurement consultant — Astra hands you a one-page cheatsheet 30 min before the call.
Astra preps you for vendor negotiations by giving you everything procurement teams build manually: leverage, BATNA, opening position, walkaway, and likely counter-arguments. She reads the existing contract from your Notion or Google Drive, pulls your actual usage from the vendor's API or your billing tool, benchmarks the same package across 2-3 alternatives by scraping public pricing, identifies your strongest leverage (overpaying vs usage, public price drops, your pending renewal date), drafts your opening ask, walkaway threshold, and 3 fallback positions, and pre-writes responses to the 4 most likely vendor objections. The deliverable is a one-page Lark cheatsheet you can scan on your phone walking into the meeting. Founders who use this typically close 15-25% off list price even on "best and final" first quotes.
Pull contract PDF from Notion or Drive. Extract: term, auto-renewal, price, MAU/seat caps, exit clauses, MFN provisions.
Vendor API or billing data: actual usage vs contracted limits. Usage trend last 6 months. Identify if you're 30%+ under or over your tier.
Public pricing of 2-3 direct competitors. Note any recent price drops. Identify which alt has the strongest like-for-like feature parity.
Opening ask (aggressive but justifiable), realistic target, walkaway threshold. 3 fallback concessions you'd accept (longer term, case study, referral).
4 most likely vendor pushbacks ("this is our best price," "that's not how we tier," "we'd lose money") with your tested response per each.
A one-page Lark cheatsheet with leverage summary, opening/target/walkaway positions, 3 fallback concessions, and pre-written responses to 4 likely objections.
On-demand before any vendor or partner negotiation.
We'll spin up your workspace, hand the prompt to Astra, and you see the answer in 60 seconds. Free.
Try this with AstraClear answers about wallet credit, usage, subscriptions, and how Tycoon charges for work.
Astra works from whatever you have — paste the key clauses into chat, share the email thread with the AE, or upload a screenshot. With just renewal date and current price she can still build a credible cheatsheet, just slightly less precise on contract gotchas.
She can — see the related skill `negotiate-better-vendor-rates`. Prep mode is for when you want to drive the conversation yourself (often the right call for high-stakes vendor relationships). Async mode is for when you'd rather not be in the loop at all.
Astra ranks alternative concessions: longer payment terms, slower pay schedule, locked rate for 24-36 months, removed minimum, free seats for new hires, dedicated support. Often the price stays but you walk out with $5-15K of effective value.
Astra anchors the opening to a defensible number — usually the strongest competitor's public price or your usage-justified rate. She avoids unanchored lowballs (which damage relationships) but won't ask gently when leverage is real. The cheatsheet shows you the reasoning.