Negotiate 3 real purchases — with a script and a log
Negotiation is a learnable skill Indians use daily and study never. Learn the techniques with AI, rehearse against it playing a stubborn seller, then run 3 real negotiations — a market purchase, a second-hand item, a service plan — and log what actually worked.
Posted by The AI Internships
The work brief
- 01Learn the basics with AI: anchoring, the flinch, silence, walking away, bundle asks. Write your script for each situation.
- 02Stress-test the script: make AI play a stubborn seller and rehearse until your lines survive contact.
- 03Before each: research the fair price (comparables) so you negotiate from knowledge, not hope.
- 04Run all 3 real negotiations. Immediately after each, log: opening price, your counter, their moves, final price, what worked.
- 05Analyse across the 3: your savings, which technique moved the price, and where you chickened out.
What you’ll produce
Submission standard
Submit your prep with fair-price research, the 3 negotiation logs, and the cross-analysis. Honest "I panicked and paid full price" entries score better than fake wins. Include your AI workflow: your rehearsal prompts and what the roleplay changed in your script. Add dated photos of the 3 purchases with receipts or price tags showing the final price, and make sure those prices match your logs and savings maths.
Your prep: the techniques you planned and the fair-price research per situation
Written responseRequiredThe 3 logs: opening, counters, their exact responses, final price
The 3 logs: each must name the real shop/seller and place, the date, opening price, your counters, their exact responses, and the final price — which must match your purchase evidence.
Written responseRequiredCross-analysis: total saved, which techniques worked, where you folded and why
Written responseRequired
You’ll complete these inside your private workspace.
What you must submit as proof
This brief requires evidence an AI can’t fabricate.
Dated photos of the 3 items you negotiated for, with receipts/bills or price tags visible (final price legible)
The final prices shown must match the three logs and your savings maths. Cover the shop’s phone number, any card or UPI ID, and any name printed on the bill — only the item, price, and date should be readable.
Image uploadRequired
Submissions without this evidence cannot be submitted.
Protect other people in your proof. Blur faces, names, phone numbers and email addresses before you upload, and refer to anyone you worked with by role or number ("Listener 1", "the stall owner"). Your proof is only ever used to check your work — it is never published, never appears on your certificate, and is never shown in your public portfolio.
How your work is evaluated
The passing benchmark is 70/100.
Real negotiations
22%The logs read like real haggling — exact phrases, awkward moments, mixed outcomes.
Prepared, not hopeful
11%Fair-price research and technique plans preceded each negotiation.
Honest analysis
22%The analysis owns the failures and extracts technique-level learning.
Receipts match the logs
44%The 3 purchases are evidenced by dated photos/receipts whose final prices match the logged outcomes and the savings maths. No receipts, or prices that don't match the logs, = fail regardless of how vivid the haggling reads.
How we grade your AI usage
Using AI is the point — it’s the skill this certificate proves. You’ll answer three short questions about how you used it: what you asked, what was wrong with its first answer, and what you changed. Specific, honest answers score high. “I pasted the brief and submitted the answer” scores near zero.