NegoAI

I stopped writing notes before a meeting. I built the thing that gets me ready.

A company got in touch this week. They want AI and negotiation training, three sessions are booked, and before any of it I get forty-five minutes with the person who called.

Yadvinder S. Rana

I built four negotiators. None of them is a real person

I built them because before I sit down with a new client I want to understand how their work actually runs, and there is no way to learn that from a website, so I made people I could interview.

Yadvinder S. Rana

I Gave My AI Agent an Email Address, My Calendar, and Hands

This week I gave an AI agent its own email address, read access to my inbox and my calendar, and the ability to operate other software without me. Then I spent a day proving what it cannot do.

Yadvinder S. Rana

I stopped writing notes before a meeting. I built the thing that gets me ready.

A company got in touch this week. They want AI and negotiation training, three sessions are booked, and before any of it I get forty-five minutes with the person who called.

Yadvinder S. Rana

I built four negotiators. None of them is a real person

I built them because before I sit down with a new client I want to understand how their work actually runs, and there is no way to learn that from a website, so I made people I could interview.

Yadvinder S. Rana

I Gave My AI Agent an Email Address, My Calendar, and Hands

This week I gave an AI agent its own email address, read access to my inbox and my calendar, and the ability to operate other software without me. Then I spent a day proving what it cannot do.

Yadvinder S. Rana

Week Two: Alex Learned to Say I Don't Know

Week two had one job. Give him a memory.

Yadvinder S. Rana

Week One: A Private Home for the Agents

Last week I told you I'd build the NegoAI platform in the open, over at least twelve weeks. This is the first build report.

Yadvinder S. Rana

I'm Building the NegoAI Platform in the Open

I'm building the NegoAI platform. And I'm going to build it here, in the open, over the next twelve weeks at least.

Yadvinder S. Rana

The AI Read the Room Better Than the Negotiators Did

The European Negotiation Conference had put four of us on one panel — AI and Human Interaction in Negotiation — and I had the last slot, presenting the work behind the paper I shared with you last week.

Yadvinder S. Rana

Human + AI Usually Loses. Here's When It Wins.

For a year now, I've prepared every negotiation with the same AI. The common assumption is that this kind of partnership gets better on its own — more time together, sharper work. For most people, it doesn't. They plateau, or quietly give up.

Yadvinder S. Rana

The Hard Part Was Never the Code

This week my course cohort finished a working AI negotiation system — without writing a single line of code. The part that decided whether it was any good had nothing to do with the building.

Yadvinder S. Rana

You Don't Have to Trust the Other Side to Make the Deal Bigger

How AI creates value in low-trust negotiations — and the agent my cohort built this week to do it.

Yadvinder S. Rana

Last Week the Tool Fought Me. This Week, Four Questions Built the Agent.New post

Yadvinder S. Rana

I Built a Negotiation Workflow with Microsoft Copilot Studio — The Honest Version

Here's exactly what I built, what it took, and whether it's worth your time.

Yadvinder S. Rana