On Demand Session  |  Negotiating the Big 50

Negotiating with Anthropic, OpenAI and Palantir

The one category where the discount matters less than the shape of what you are signing. A nineteen minute session on the access problem, what is genuinely negotiable when the price is not, the commitment trap in a market where capability keeps getting cheaper, and why Palantir's leverage disappears during the pilot.

18:54 minutes11 chaptersDaniel, Senior Advisor and Claire, Expert AnalystFree, no registration

About this session

These are young commercial organisations carrying large revenue on very thin enterprise sales headcount, measured in dozens rather than thousands and aimed at a small number of very large deals. Where a traditional vendor at comparable revenue would assign you a named account team, an overlay specialist and a customer success manager, here you may have a shared inbox. Below the attention line, a great many enterprises end up buying through the website on a credit card, which costs them the terms rather than the price.

The session is deliberately honest about what cannot be told with precision. There is no reliable discount table here, and anyone offering one is guessing. What can be said with confidence is where the flexibility actually sits. Token and model pricing is close to fixed. Contract structure is wide open: commitment size and measurement, the annual price increase cap, credit mechanics and expiry, termination rights, data handling, and the usage reporting and spend controls without which you cannot manage the cost at all.

The strongest recommendation in the session concerns the term. Three things are unstable at once, the price of capability, the models themselves, and any forecast of consumption, and they compound. Prefer twelve months over thirty six even at a worse headline rate, insist on a most favoured pricing clause, and get model substitution rights. Palantir is treated separately because it behaves differently: the bootcamp is cheap, the ontology work creates switching cost before price is ever discussed, and the clauses that matter, ontology documentation, egress in open formats and priced transition assistance, are negotiable at signature and close to unobtainable at renewal.

Session agenda

Every line jumps the player to that point.

  • 0:00 Welcome, and why this session is differentNo discount table, because we would not believe one ourselves.
  • 1:18 The access problemSkeleton commercial organisations, the attention line, and shadow spend on cards.
  • 4:04 What is actually negotiableThe price is settled and the terms are wide open, which is the opposite of where most teams look.
  • 6:39 The commitment trapAn unstable price, an unstable product and an unforecastable consumption curve.
  • 9:16 PalantirBootcamp, ontology, negotiation, and where the leverage actually goes.
  • 12:12 Terms and dataPick four that matter, and mitigate liability in the architecture.
  • 14:09 LeverageA genuine parallel evaluation, consolidation, and reference value.
  • 15:35 The playbookEight moves.
  • 16:36 TimingThe one category where waiting always costs you.
  • 17:17 The numbersSuch as they are.
  • 17:57 The bottom lineWorry less about the discount and more about the shape of what you sign.

The model. Redress Compliance works on contingency. You negotiate with the vendor first. When you have gotten everything you can get, bring the deal to Redress and we take 25 percent of what we save you beyond your best number. Nothing saved, nothing paid. Talk to us.

Chapters

  • 0:00Welcome, and why this session is different
  • 1:18The access problem
  • 4:04What is actually negotiable
  • 6:39The commitment trap
  • 9:16Palantir
  • 12:12Terms and data
  • 14:09Leverage
  • 15:35The playbook
  • 16:36Timing
  • 17:17The numbers
  • 17:57The bottom line

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