Stop leaving money on the table.
Generate a custom counter-offer playbook and practice negotiating with a brutally honest AI recruiter before the real call.
Included in JobTether Elite · ₹999/mo
Custom Playbook
We analyze your offer against your current CTC and experience, generating a step-by-step script on exactly what to say to the recruiter.
Live AI Roleplay
Use your microphone to negotiate live with our AI Recruiter persona. It will push back, lowball you, and test your boundaries.
Post-Call Verdict
After the roleplay, Brutus grades your performance. Did you cave too early? Did you leverage your competing offers correctly?
How the Negotiation Coach Works
Input Your Offer Details
Tell us the Base Salary, Bonus, Equity, your current CTC, and any competing offers.
Read Your Playbook
Review the AI-generated strategy. Understand your leverage points and rehearse the exact scripts provided.
Enter the Roleplay Arena
Click start and negotiate with the AI recruiter using your microphone. Build your confidence before making the real call.
Step one: an honest read on your offer
Before you can ask for more, you need to know whether the number in front of you is low, fair or already generous. You enter the role, company, city, base salary, bonus, ESOPs, your current CTC, years of experience, any competing offers and the CTC you are hoping for. Brutus returns:
An estimated market band. A minimum, median and top-of-band figure in LPA for that role, company type and city. It is an AI estimate drawn from publicly reported Indian salary ranges, not a live salary database, so treat it as a starting point and cross-check it.
A verdict on the offer. Below market, at market or above market.
A leverage score from 1 to 10. A fresher with no other offers sits at 1 or 2. Multiple strong offers plus in-demand skills sit at 9 or 10. The score drives everything that follows.
A specific counter-offer number, with the reasoning behind it, plus red flags in the offer and the strengths you can lean on.
Step two: a playbook with the exact words
Most people know they should negotiate and freeze when the recruiter says no. The playbook is written so you never have to improvise the hard part.
Opening script
How to start the call: grateful, confident, and not grovelling.
Counter-offer script
States your number with one market reference and one line about the value you bring.
Four objection responses
“The budget is fixed”, “we can revisit in six months”, “everyone at this level starts here” and “we've already stretched”, each with a reply.
Email template and walk-away line
A ready email if you would rather negotiate in writing, and what to say if they genuinely will not move.
The scripts lean on three well-established negotiation ideas: knowing your best alternative (BATNA), anchoring with the first number, and letting silence do some of the work after you state it.
Step three: rehearse against a recruiter who pushes back
Reading a script is not the same as saying it to someone who disagrees. In the roleplay, Brutus plays the HR manager at the company that made you the offer.
Friendly, but trying to close at the offered number. Expect the budget objection, the six-month review and the internal-equity line.
Fair, not a villain. A well-reasoned counter backed by market data or a competing offer can win a partial or full concession, scaled to your leverage. Caving early or arguing without data gets you nowhere.
A verdict when you finish. Brutus steps out of character and tells you where you gave ground too early and what to say differently on the real call.
Salary negotiation coach: common questions
Should I negotiate my first job offer in India?
Usually yes, politely and with a reason. Many offers have room built in, and asking professionally rarely costs you the offer. The exception is a fixed campus band, where the honest answer may be that there is little room. That is what the leverage score is for: it tells you how hard you can push before you start.
How much should I counter with?
It depends on the market band for the role, your current CTC and whether you have other offers. The coach gives you one specific counter figure and the reasoning behind it, rather than a generic "ask for 20% more" rule.
Where do the market salary numbers come from?
They are AI estimates based on publicly reported Indian salary ranges for the role, company type and city. They are not pulled live from a salary database, so cross-check them against sources such as AmbitionBox, Glassdoor or Naukri before you quote a figure to a recruiter.
What if the recruiter says the budget is fixed?
That is one of the four objections the playbook prepares you for, along with the six-month review offer, the internal-equity argument and "we've already stretched". You can rehearse each of them in the roleplay before the real call.
Can I practise out loud?
Yes. The roleplay supports your microphone, so you can say your counter out loud instead of typing it. Saying a number out loud for the first time is the part most people find hardest.
Is the salary negotiation coach free?
No. It is part of the JobTether Elite plan at ₹999 a month, which also includes the AI Interview Coach.