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.
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.
When One Assistant Runs Out of Road — I Built the Chain Live
On Monday — in the second of two Maven Lightning Lessons — I took the same negotiation case from Part 1, ran it through a four-agent workflow, and handed the final brief to Von Neumann for a live counterpart stress-test.
The Wrong Question Every Negotiator Is Still Asking About AI
Which AI is best for negotiation — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot?" It's the wrong question. The model isn't the variable. Your context stack is. Same prompt, same model, three different stacks — three very different answers.
