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Session three: how to respond on the seat side. Six moves, in order, and the order matters, because a seat count committed before the reconciliation commits the sprawl, and an edition mix proposed after the annual plan is signed proposes nothing. I am Tom, Claire is with me, and this is the Google AI Negotiation Series. Move one: reconcile provisioned to active.
Pull the admin console reports and separate real users from shared, service, and dormant accounts before any count is committed. The true up bills provisioned seats at the then current rate; the reconciliation is the only thing that stops directory sprawl from being billed as users.
Move two: map editions to roles. Decide who needs Enterprise Plus, who needs Business Standard, and who is a Frontline worker. The edition mix is the largest seat side lever, and Google will not propose it, because Enterprise Plus for all is the opening structure and the AI uplift rides every seat on it. Light users on the top edition are paying for Gemini they do not open.
Move three: run a Gemini Enterprise pilot with a threshold. Ninety days, a defined population, an adoption measure that decides who gets a seat, and the staging schedule and the net rate for additions in the order form.
Why the pilot matters: Google's opening structure is all knowledge workers on Standard or Plus in year one, and the trap is that sixty percent adoption pays for one hundred percent of seats. Signing Gemini Enterprise for the whole workforce on a demo, before a pilot has decided who uses it, is the note's second most expensive mistake. Stage the rollout to the measure. Frontline for light use.
Additions at the same net rate. And the quota: each seat includes a quota of agent actions that heavy users exhaust in days, with overage billed against a credit pool at the card rate. Left open, that overage is uncapped.
Move four: pool and cap the quota. Consumption above the included quota is pooled across the tenant rather than stranded per seat, the overage rate is fixed in the order form, and a monthly ceiling with an approval gate applies. Move five: protect the base rate. The Workspace edition price is held for the term, with any future AI uplift excluded for seats already committed, because the last uplift arrived as a base price change nobody could decline, and the next one will too.
Move six: keep true down. A right to reduce seats by a stated percentage at each anniversary, on Annual plans, without losing the discount tier.
The mistakes on this side are consistent. Accepting the Workspace AI uplift on every seat, including shared, service, and dormant accounts, because it arrived as a base price change. Signing Gemini Enterprise for the whole workforce on a demo. Leaving the seat quota's overage open at the card rate.
And negotiating Workspace in one room while Cloud is negotiated in another, while one Google account team sizes a single commit from both. That last one is the bridge to session four, because the seat side and the consumption side are the same negotiation, and the commit is where they meet.
What good looks like at signature on the seat side: provisioned reconciled to active, editions mapped to roles, Gemini Enterprise seats staged to a pilot threshold with additions at the net rate, the quota pooled with a fixed overage rate and a monthly ceiling, the base rate protected for the term, and true down rights at anniversary. Session four crosses to the consumption side: tokens, agents, avatars, the commit plans, and the Google Cloud commitment. The full research note is free under this video, and the series lives at redresscompliance dot com slash google ai negotiation series.
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