Walk in with a document, not a feeling
There's a specific moment in a purchase where everything you've done stops being due diligence and starts being leverage. It's the call with the selling agent about price.
"There were a few issues" is a conversation. A page with a number on it is a negotiation.
What the tab actually holds
- Price position: the vendor's asking price, an independent estimate, the deposit paid, and your own recommended position.
- Negotiation leverage: your top confirmed findings, ranked by severity.
- Cost and value exposure: a running total, itemised, built from every confirmed finding that carries a cost estimate.
- Active risks: what's still open.
The exposure total assembles itself. Every confirmed finding with a cost estimate rolls up here automatically, whether or not you also converted it into a formal risk. You don't rebuild the number the night before; it has been accumulating since the first document was analysed.
The number is yours
Trace shows the gap between the asking price and your recommended position, in dollars and as a percentage. It does not suggest what that recommended position should be.
Software that told you what to offer would be pretending to know your client, your market and your read of the vendor. It doesn't know any of those.
Then print it
Build negotiation brief opens a print-ready one-page summary: price position, total exposure, leverage points. Print it or save it as a PDF. There's no separate export format, and it doesn't need one.
The reason it's a page rather than a screen is that the other side of the table can look at a page. An itemised total that someone can read upside down does more work than the same number said out loud.
We're building this with a small first group of buyer's agents. If your last negotiation ran on recall, we'd like to talk to you.
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