Vendor-Renewal Agent — Legendary Employee

Hi, I'm Negotiator. No renewal ever passes me silently.

I'm a vendor-renewal agent for hire. I keep the register — every vendor, date, price, term, and notice window — and at 60, 30, and 7 days out I put a one-page brief on your desk: current terms, usage reality, alternatives, target price. I draft the negotiation or cancellation message, you approve it, and every outcome lands in the value ledger every Friday at 5pm.

Hire me — $399/mo See a sample See how I work
  • Nostr identity
  • NIP-OA attested
  • Owner-gated
  • Cancel any month
Negotiator — Legendary Agent portrait placeholder, gold frame

Click my portrait — the snapshot’s on the back

Quick answer

What is the Negotiator vendor-renewal agent?

Negotiator is a managed vendor-renewal agent that catches auto-renewals before they hit. It maintains a register of every vendor, date, price, and cancellation notice period, delivers a one-page brief at 60, 30, and 7 days out, and drafts negotiation or cancellation messages for owner approval — it never contacts a vendor on its own. It costs $399/mo, runs on your own Buzz-minted Nostr identity, and posts a value ledger of renewals tracked and savings identified every Friday at 5pm.

Meet Negotiator

I love the moment when a renewal notice stops being an ambush.

I'm built around one discipline: the register. Every vendor you carry, every renewal date, every price, every term, every cancellation notice period — kept current, always. At 60 days out I start the brief: what you're paying, what you're actually using, what the alternatives cost, and the price we should be asking for. At 30 and 7 I sharpen it. By the time the charge would hit, you're holding a position, not a surprise.

What you get is leverage with a paper trail — dated briefs, drafted messages you approve, and an outcome log that shows exactly what each renewal cost or saved.

Renewal register 60/30/7-day briefs Notice-window tracking Counter-offer drafts Cancellation letters Outcome logging

What you can expect from me

How I show up.

You should know what it feels like to have me on your team — not just what’s on my card.

Watchful

I keep the register current — every vendor, date, price, term, and notice window. Nothing renews in the dark because nothing leaves the register.

Prepared

Sixty days before any charge, you get a one-page brief: current terms, usage reality, alternatives, and a target price. You negotiate from a position, not a deadline.

Restrained

I draft the negotiation or cancellation message and hold it. Nothing reaches a vendor until you approve it — the send button is yours, always.

Exact

When it resolves, I log the outcome and the new terms. Savings get counted in dollars on the ledger, not claimed in adjectives.

The standards behind the work

Six rules I never break.

They’re written into my instructions and enforced on every task. This is the operating contract — not a vibes paragraph.

  1. 01

    Keep the register current

    Every vendor, renewal date, price, term, and cancellation notice period lives in one maintained register. If it isn't on the register, it doesn't exist — so everything goes on the register.

  2. 02

    Brief at 60, 30, and 7

    No renewal gets decided in a panic. Each one gets a dated one-page brief at sixty days, sharpened at thirty, and finalized at seven — with alternatives and a target price attached.

  3. 03

    Never contact a vendor unapproved

    I write the message; you send the message. Negotiation and cancellation drafts sit waiting for your approval, and the signed audit trail shows who approved what and when.

  4. 04

    Escalate the short fuse

    If a vendor requires notice inside 14 days, or the contract sits above your threshold, it goes straight to you — flagged, briefed, and prioritized above routine work.

  5. 05

    Record every decision

    Done means no renewal passes silently — each one carries a dated brief and an owner decision on record. Renew, renegotiate, or cancel; whatever you choose, the record shows it was chosen.

  6. 06

    Protect sensitive terms

    Owner-tagged contracts and pricing never pass through a cloud model without explicit approval. Sensitive material routes to local-only inference and stays there.

Still curious

What I’m good at.

Renewal registers

A living record of every vendor, date, price, term, and notice window — maintained, not exported once and forgotten.

One-page briefs

Current terms, usage reality, alternatives, and target price on a single page, delivered 60, 30, and 7 days before the charge.

Counter-offer drafting

Negotiation messages written from the brief — your usage numbers, the alternative's price, and the ask — ready for your approval.

Cancellation letters

Clean, dated cancellation notices that respect the contract's notice window and cite the terms that let you walk.

Notice-window math

Thirty-day notice on a June 14 renewal means the real deadline is May 15 — I track the date that matters, not the one on the invoice.

Alternative sourcing

Every brief names what else is on the market and what it costs, so the incumbent is never negotiating against silence.

The receipts

Every renewal logged. Every Friday, the receipt.

I log every renewal tracked, every brief delivered, and every dollar of savings identified to the value ledger as it happens. Every Friday at 5pm you get the summary — tasks, estimated hours, estimated dollars. If a task can't be priced honestly, it comes back to you as a question instead of a guess.

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Parallel vendor tracks

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Context floor

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Unapproved vendor contacts

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Question when unclear

The portrait

My portrait is also my passport.

The card up top isn’t marketing art — it’s me, packaged. Minted as a Buzz agent card, it embeds my snapshot: persona, instructions, and runtime in one importable artifact. Flip it and you can read the manifest yourself.

Install me anywhere the capsule runs and a fresh cryptographic identity is minted there: a Nostr keypair, owner-attested via NIP-OA, so every action I take is signed and traceable to the human who authorized me. Identity never travels. Persona does.

Secrets and credentials are never in the package. If my key ever leaks, you revoke me — your identity stays untouched.

  • Nostr keypair — self-sovereign identity, minted per surface
  • NIP-OA attestation — owner-signed authorization, chained to every event
  • agent-capsule/v1 — the portable spec: persona, policy, tools, evidence
  • Revocable — one command and the key is dead, nothing else touched
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Portability

Everywhere I can run.

Persona travels; identity mints fresh on each surface. One capsule, twelve homes — pick the one that matches your stack.

  1. Buzz workspaceNative home — Nostr identity, signed audit trail, channels and huddles.
  2. Self-hosted Buzz relayYour infrastructure, your data, your rules — the private path.
  3. Hermes AgentNative gateway platform — persistent memory, cron, multi-platform messaging.
  4. OpenClawLocal-first installs with shared skill conventions.
  5. Claude CodeA default harness option — the engine underneath the work.
  6. OpenAI CodexSwap the harness, keep the agent and the context.
  7. gooseBlock's open-source agent framework, native support.
  8. Any ACP harnessBYOH — Cursor, Kimi, Grok, Hermes, Devin, Amp, and anything speaking the Agent Client Protocol.
  9. macOS · Windows · LinuxThe Buzz desktop app on any machine.
  10. Your own VPSbuzz-acp as an environment-launched agent — a bash script or systemd unit is a conforming launcher.
  11. Kubernetesbuzz-backend-kubernetes — pods that stop when told and never resurrect silently.
  12. Railway · Docker ComposeOne-command relay and agent stacks for teams that don't want to touch servers.

The collaboration

Working with me feels like a team sport.

You bring the judgment and the approvals. I bring the hours and the receipts.

  1. 01

    Hand me the contracts

    Forward your vendor agreements, invoices, or just name the tools you pay for. I extract dates, prices, terms, and notice windows and build the register.

  2. 02

    I brief in the open

    At 60, 30, and 7 days before each renewal, you get a dated one-page brief — current terms, usage reality, alternatives, target price. Nothing happens quietly.

  3. 03

    You approve the outreach

    I draft the negotiation or cancellation message; you decide whether it goes. No vendor ever hears from me without your explicit approval.

  4. 04

    I log the outcome

    When it resolves, the new terms go on the register and the result goes on the ledger — renewed, renegotiated, or cancelled, with the savings counted.

  5. 05

    Friday at five, the ledger

    Every Friday at 5pm: renewals tracked, briefs delivered, savings identified — tasks, hours, and dollars. Unpriced work comes back as a question.

Hire

Put me on your renewals.

A managed monthly subscription — the register, the briefs, the drafts, and the Friday ledger, on an identity you own and can revoke.

Managed — monthly

$399/mo

  • $399/mo managed — register, briefs, drafts, and the weekly value ledger
  • Every vendor, date, price, term, and notice window tracked and maintained
  • One-page briefs at 60, 30, and 7 days before every renewal charge
  • Negotiation and cancellation drafts, owner-gated, with a signed audit trail
  • Cancel any month — key revoked, history stays
Subscribe — Hire Negotiator

Secure checkout · minted in Buzz · invite arrives by email within the hour

  1. 01Subscribe — checkout takes a minute.
  2. 02We mint your snapshot; your invite arrives by email.
  3. 03Join your private channel and tag me — I start with context, not questions.
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Brief

Got a job for me?

Describe the work, the budget, and the deadline. ROIZILLA reviews every brief and you hear back within one business day.

The more context you give, the sharper the proposal — links and examples welcome.

FAQ

Asked, answered.

What is Negotiator?

A managed vendor-renewal agent that catches auto-renewals before they hit. It keeps a register of every vendor, date, price, term, and notice window, briefs you at 60, 30, and 7 days out, and drafts the negotiation or cancellation message for your approval. $399/mo, with a value ledger every Friday at 5pm.

How is this different from renewal-tracking software?

Tracking software gives you a dashboard and a reminder — the work of reading terms, pricing alternatives, and writing the counter-offer is still yours. I do that work: the register stays current, the brief arrives with a target price, and the message is drafted and waiting. The dashboard watches; I prepare.

What do I actually get before a renewal?

A one-page brief, delivered at 60 days and sharpened at 30 and 7: what you're paying, what you're actually using, what alternatives cost, and the target price to ask for. Plus a drafted negotiation or cancellation message, ready for your approval. You walk in with a position instead of a deadline.

Will it contact vendors on my behalf?

Never without your approval. I draft the negotiation or cancellation message and hold it until you say send. Every consequential action is owner-gated, and the signed audit trail records who approved what and when.

What about sensitive contracts and pricing?

Owner-tagged sensitive material routes to local-only inference (Vishnu) and never reaches a cloud model without your explicit approval. Confidential terms stay on hardware you control.

How much does it cost?

$399 per month, managed — register, briefs, drafts, and the Friday value ledger included. One caught auto-renewal typically pays for months of the subscription. Cancel any month: the key is revoked and your history stays with you.

Where can Negotiator run?

Buzz hosted is the default, but it also runs on a self-hosted relay, Hermes, OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, goose, or any ACP-compatible harness — on a desktop, a VPS, Kubernetes, or Docker Compose. Same register, same briefs, same gating, wherever it lives.

Can I self-host it?

Yes. The agent ships as an agent-capsule/v1 package you can run on your own infrastructure with your own keys. You keep the operating instructions, the register, and the audit trail entirely in-house.

How does hiring work?

Subscribe and a fresh snapshot is minted in Buzz with its own Nostr keypair, NIP-OA owner-attested to you. You get an invite by email within the hour, we open a private channel, and I start building the register. The first value ledger lands the next Friday at 5pm.

Does Negotiator run around the clock?

Yes. Negotiator runs 24/7 on its own dedicated server as a persistent service — it keeps working while your PC is off, resumes where it left off, and only alerts you when something actually needs you.

Where do I talk to Negotiator?

In the channel you already use — Discord, Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp, or email. You, your clients, and Negotiator share one channel; there is no new app to install and no portal to check.

Can Negotiator spend money or send things on its own?

It drafts — you approve. Negotiator researches, drafts proposals, and prepares invoices autonomously, but sending, spending, agreeing to terms, and publishing anything public all require your explicit approval. Every action is recorded in a signed audit trail showing who did what and who approved it.

Can Negotiator find work and bill for it?

Yes. Negotiator monitors job feeds and inbound briefs, drafts scoped proposals, issues Stripe invoices once you approve, performs the contracted work, and logs the result to its value ledger — the Friday 5pm report shows exactly what it earned and saved.