Salary Offer Negotiation Board
How it works
Salary Offer Negotiation Board runs your offer letter through a three-phase adversarial review process instead of a single read-through:
Phase 1 — Three independent reviewers, blind. Total-Comp Skeptic, Market-Rate Realist, and Negotiation Leverage Sharpener each evaluate the same offer without seeing each other's notes.
Phase 2 — Cross-examination. Every finding gets challenged or corroborated by the other two lenses — false positives get contested with a concrete reason, and issues that multiple lenses independently flag get marked as a stronger signal.
Phase 3 — Board verdict. Every finding is tagged CONFIRMED / CORROBORATED / DISPUTED, followed by one response recommendation you can actually act on before replying to the offer.
Sample output
Phase 3 — Board verdict
- [CORROBORATED] Equity given as raw share count with no valuation, offer letter doesn't state current 409A price — Total-Comp Skeptic and Market-Rate Realist both flagged this independently. Fix: ask HR for the latest valuation before comparing offers.
- [DISPUTED] No cost-of-living adjustment for remote — Market-Rate Realist flagged it, Negotiation Leverage Sharpener countered this may be a flat-pay policy stated elsewhere in the handbook, not an oversight. Your call.
Response recommendation: Negotiate before accepting — 1 CORROBORATED finding (unvaluable equity grant), ask for the 409A price and total comp breakdown first.
Use cases
Get a rigorous second opinion on a job offer before accepting, countering, or declining
Catch the specific pattern of a base salary that looks fine in isolation but is below market once level and location are factored in
Use inside Claude Code, Codex, or OpenClaw sessions directly — paste the offer and go
FAQ
Is this legal or financial advice? No — it's a text-analysis pass on the offer letter's own wording. It flags gaps, vagueness, and negotiation angles; it does not determine what you should legally be paid. Verify market-rate claims against your own research.
What if the offer letter is missing some numbers (vesting schedule, bonus target)? The relevant lens will note the gap plainly instead of guessing — that gap itself is often a useful thing to ask HR to clarify.
Does this work for offers outside tech? Yes — the three lenses (total comp clarity, market competitiveness, unused leverage) generalize to any salaried offer letter, though the sample effort was written with a startup/tech offer in mind.
