The Salary Negotiation Kit for Tech Levels and Equity
DolceDrago 316 — a skill for the offer whose biggest number is not the salary
Variant of Nº036 — The Salary Negotiation Kit
What it is
Prepares the pay conversation at a company that pays by grid: the level set before the number, the band read as a consequence of the level, the grant interrogated line by line — count against a dated denominator, strike, cliff, refresh policy, liquidity condition, exercise window. Builds the three numbers, the scripts for the recruiter, the counter and the capped band, and values the equity under stated assumptions rather than the recruiter's projection. For engineers, designers, data and product people.
What you receive
a levelled-offer negotiation kit — level, base and grant each with walk-away, target and anchor, the grant interrogation checklist, the scripts for the recruiter and the counter, and the equity levers for when the band is fixed
Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.
Supported models
- Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
- ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
- Gemini
- any capable chat model
People reach for it when
- “negotiate a tech offer with rsus and a levelling band”
- “they down-levelled me to L4 what do I say”
- “is 0.4 percent equity at a seed startup any good”
- “counter offer when the salary band is capped but the grant is not”
- “ask for a longer option exercise window before I resign”
Record
lineage: variant · parent 036
gates passed: demand-evidence · function-fit · beats-the-blank-page
status: IN THE COLLECTION
Sale-time bench runs and the fix-or-refund log attach to this record when the payment room opens.
In the collection. The sale room is being fitted; this work goes on sale when it opens.
Join the house — be written to when sales openBack to the collectionLicense
Free-shelf works ship under the DolceDrago House License — use the outputs freely, personal or commercial; the work file itself stays with the house.