About FirstRoundKO

What it is for

FirstRoundKO is a negotiation coach. You describe the situation in your own words, it asks for the things that decide the outcome, and you leave with a number you can defend, a sentence you can say, and a rehearsal of the answer you are likely to get.

Most people lose a salary negotiation before it starts — not from a lack of nerve, but because they do not know what they are worth, what to say, or how the other side is likely to react. FirstRoundKO works through those three things with you, one question at a time.

What makes it different from an article

An article cannot ask you what you delivered last year, or whether your alternative is real. This does. The advice is built from your actual situation rather than the average of everyone else's, which is the difference between "negotiate your offer" and the specific number you should ask for and the reason to give.

What it costs

You get about three answered rounds for free, and no card is required to start. After that a conversation costs credits, sold in packs — the current prices are on the page inside the product, priced in your own currency. Asking questions is free; only a completed answer costs anything.

Your conversation

Your conversations belong to you and are stored against your account so you can return to them. They are not sold and they are not used to train a model. Operators of the service can read conversations for two purposes only: answering a support request you make, and understanding in aggregate which questions people ask so the product can be improved. You can delete a conversation from the sidebar at any time, and you can ask us to delete your account and everything in it.

What it will not do

It will not invent a competing offer for you, and it will not tell you to bluff. It will not tell you a number is fair when there is no evidence for it — if it does not know what your market pays, it will say so and ask what information you have.

It is not a lawyer or a financial adviser. For a contract dispute, a discrimination question, or anything with legal consequences, talk to a professional in your jurisdiction.

Who runs it

FirstRoundKO is operated by a small, independent team that builds and ships the product itself. There is no sales department and no account manager: support is an email to a person who works on the product.

Contact

Anything at all — a bug, a refund, a question about your data, or a negotiation you want to tell us about — goes to [email protected]. We answer.