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The company's already getting the bigger version of you — at the old price.


Negotiation Guide is a system for asking for money, title, scope, authority, or flexibility when the job has outgrown the deal.

It gives you the exact words to use, a read on every kind of "no," and a way to tell whether to keep pushing or take your value somewhere it converts.

$79, One-time payment

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The full system, the scripts, the Terms Menu, and the closed professional circle.

You already do the bigger job

The scope grew. The project got heavier. People come to you first now, because they know you'll catch the risk and keep it moving. Somewhere in there the role quietly changed, while the title and the pay and the authority you actually hold stayed exactly where they started.

Then you go to ask, and the words get smaller in your mouth. You explain before you name the number, then lead with how grateful you are. You walk out with warmth and no decision.

The ask collapses before the number arrives.

A terms problem wearing a worth problem's clothes

Know-your-worth advice keeps missing the part that actually breaks. The request weakens the moment you signal that the value you're about to put a price on still needs permission to exist. The work is already done; the company is already running on the larger version of you. What hasn't happened yet is the conversation that makes the deal match the job.

Steady the standing of the ask, and the number stops being the frightening part. Structure was the missing piece the whole time.

A raise is not a reward conversation. It is a terms conversation.

What changes the next time you ask

By the end of one read and one sprint, you can
  • name the exact ask in a single sentence,
  • lay the evidence underneath it, and
  • stop talking at the moment most people keep going.

You can hear a "no" for what it actually is: budget, timing, evidence, authority, or fog — and ask the one question that reopens it.

When salary can't move, you pivot to the other terms instead of leaving empty.

And you can tell, before you burn another six months, whether this place will ever convert your value into terms or whether you've been negotiating with a wall.

What the old deal quietly costs

Left unasked, the gap doesn't stay still.
It shows up in specific places, every quarter it goes unaddressed.
Each month the work grows and the terms hold still, the version of you the company pays for falls further behind the version it actually uses.
  • the raise that keeps moving to next cycle
  • the title that still describes the smaller job
  • the scope you carry in full without the authority to match
  • the review date nobody ever puts on the calendar
  • the market rate your pay drifts further below the longer you wait
Your value is already in use. Now the terms need to catch up.
Everything inside Negotiation Guide
The break-check
pinpoints whether your block is the ask, the evidence, the visibility, or a system that won't convert your value.
The value-into-terms case
turns "I do a lot" into a specific, defensible terms request.
The leverage map
what you actually hold, and who feels it if you stop.
The Terms Menu
the one canonical list of what's negotiable when money is stuck.
The ask builder
the sentence, the evidence, and where to stop talking.
The objection scripts
word-for-word, for money, title, scope, authority, and flexibility.
The no-decoder
every kind of "no," and the one question that reopens each.
The follow-up emails
the wording that puts the new scope on record.
The sponsor map
the people who actually decide, and how to reach them.
The cost-of-no plan
what changes if they decline, decided in advance.
The 14-day sprint
one real conversation, built and had in two weeks.
The one-page packet
what you carry into the room.
Closed Professional Circle
a room of people working the same conversation in real roles now.
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Negotiation Guide Changes Everything

Before Negotiation Guide

You rehearse the conversation and still soften it live.
You explain too much, lead with gratitude, and accept the first soft no as an answer.
You keep absorbing the bigger job and hoping the terms catch up on their own.

They don't.
After Negotiation Guide
You walk in carrying a case you can defend, name the ask in one sentence, and let the silence do its work.
You hear exactly which kind of answer you got, and your next move is already clear: push, pivot, or take it somewhere it pays.

Do not walk in with a hope. Walk in with a terms case.
What changed for people
  • Using the POWER tools, I ended my contract on the exact date I wanted and started my new job then, instead of whenever my employer was ready to let me go.
    Andrey K.
  • I got the relocation I'd kept putting off because I was afraid to ask. I talk regularly now with a boss I used to avoid, and I'm in discussions for a 20% raise and a new project.
    Karina K.
  • The company paid for an $850 training I'd never managed to get approved before.
    Konstantin S.
  • I negotiated a salary at my new job 17% above my last one.
    Yuliya P.
  • I put together a real request to leadership to cover my training, with the argument for why it mattered to me and to the company.
    Nadzeya F.

When money can't move, the terms still can

A frozen budget doesn't end the negotiation; it changes what you're negotiating.
Ask the pivot question out loud:
if compensation can't move now, which terms can?

Often the first real win is structural: a formal title, a written scope change, a decision right, a review date on the calendar.
None of those is a consolation prize.
Each one is the infrastructure that makes the raise hard to deny next time.
Built for the capable person whose deal hasn't caught up with the work
  • you've taken on the bigger job, and the title, pay, and authority haven't moved with it
  • people rely on you to hold the hard things together, and the terms still describe the old role
  • you've asked before and walked out with warmth and no decision
  • you don't want a performance — you want the words, the structure, and a read on the answer
  • you suspect "be confident" was never going to fix this
  • you want to know whether this place will ever convert your value, or whether it's time to move
Negotiation Guide is the system that turns value already in use into better terms:
the exact words for money, title, scope, authority, and flexibility, a read on whatever answer comes back, and the call on whether the place will ever move at all.
You also join the closed professional circle
When you buy, you join a closed circle of people working the same conversation in real roles right now.

Test the exact sentence before you say it out loud, and hear how the answer actually landed for someone a step ahead of you.

I answer questions about the material myself.

The only entry requirement is that you took this seriously enough to deal with it.
Created by Olga Cherkasova

I work with workplace power, authority, visibility, and the hidden rules that decide whose work gets noticed, credited, funded, promoted, and remembered.


I built this for capable professionals whose competence isn't converting into power, status, promotion, and money.

The full system for turning the bigger job into a better deal

The company is already deciding your terms from what it can get away with paying for the larger version of you.
Negotiation Guide changes what you bring to that decision.

$79.
The complete system: the break-check, the value-into-terms case, the leverage map, the Terms Menu, the ask builder, the objection scripts, the no-decoder, the follow-up emails, the sponsor map, the cost-of-no plan, the 14-day sprint, the convertibility check, the one-page packet, lifetime access, and the closed professional circle.
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FAQ

Your work is already part of the company's value. The only open question is whether the terms still describe the old version of your role. If they do, it's time to ask.