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How should founders negotiate customer and vendor contracts with AI's help?

The short answer

AI collapses negotiation prep from hours to minutes: paste the contract and ask for the other side's likely pushback, market-standard fallback positions, and a redline you can actually propose. Enterprises already run AI on their side of the table, so walking in without it means negotiating blind. The Krafton case is the standing warning: a CEO who followed ChatGPT over his own lawyers into a $250M contract fight lost badly, so AI prepares the negotiation, humans close it.

A quick orientation. The real value is below: resources worth your time, from people who've actually done it.

20 resources worth your time

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