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Ask for more money with a case, not a wish.
A course for the salary conversation you have been dreading. It covers building a case from your actual contribution, preparing for the objections you will hear, and negotiating the whole offer rather than one number.
Open Cadence on the App Store, type the sentence when it asks what you want to learn, and answer a few setup questions. Free to start. Android testers can request early access.
Type this when Cadence asks what you want to learn
I want to negotiate a higher salary with confidence. Help me build a case around my contribution, prepare for objections, and discuss options beyond a single number.
Change any word so it fits your situation. The course is built from what you type and a few setup questions.
- Best for
- Career growth
- Prerequisites
- None. Bring the situation you have.
- Course length
- 7 to 30 lessons, sized to your goal
- Lesson pace
- About 10 minutes a day
- Format
- Read it, or play the audio
- Access
- Available on the App Store, with early features and Android testing access
Before the course is built
Setup asks about your situation first.
Lesson 1 opens on the moment you describe, and the examples use your role. For this request, expect questions like these.
- Is this a raise in your current role, a new offer, or a promotion conversation?
- Do you know what the role pays elsewhere, or is that part of what you need?
- What worries you most: being told no, damaging the relationship, or not knowing what to say?
Right for now
If any of this sounds familiar, start here.
You asked once and folded
A quick no or a pained face ended the conversation, and you agreed to revisit it never.
You have an offer and a deadline
The number is on the table and you have days to decide whether to push.
Course arc
Where the course goes, in order.
Cadence writes the lessons for you, so the exact path follows your answers. This is the ground a course built from this sentence covers.
01 / 06What the other side is actually deciding
Budgets, bands, precedent and the manager's own constraints, and why none of them is a verdict on you.
Your case
Contribution, market and future value, assembled into two minutes you can say out loud.
Anchors and ranges
How to name a number, when to go first, and what a range signals.
The objections you will hear
No budget, not now, policy, and the face: what each means and how to respond.
Beyond the base figure
Timing, title, scope, review dates and flexibility, and how to trade between them.
Your conversation
Rehearsing the opening, the ask and the pause, using your real numbers.
What changes
What you will be able to do, and what you will stop believing.
You will be able to
Build the case in advance
Turn what you have delivered into a short, evidence-backed argument.
Handle the no
Hear budget, timing and policy objections and keep the conversation open.
Negotiate the package
Trade across salary, title, timing, scope and flexibility instead of fixing on one figure.
Ideas this course corrects
Asking damages the relationship
Managers expect the ask. A prepared, respectful case usually raises their estimate of you.
The first number is the negotiation
Most of the value is in what surrounds the base figure and in what happens after the first no.
Course questions
What to know before you start.
Is this a fixed course?
No. Cadence builds the course when you type the sentence and answer a few setup questions, so the lessons follow your situation. This page describes what a course built from this request covers. You see the whole path before Lesson 1.
Who is this course for?
A course for the salary conversation you have been dreading. It covers building a case from your actual contribution, preparing for the objections you will hear, and negotiating the whole offer rather than one number. It sits under Career growth in the Work & ambitions part of the library.
Do I need any prior experience?
No. Setup asks what you already know and where you want to use it, and the course starts from there. Bring a real situation if you have one; the examples are built around it.
How long does it take?
Courses run 7 to 30 lessons of about 10 minutes, sized to what you asked for. One lesson a day is the intended pace, and you can go faster. Lessons can be read or played as audio.
Does this course award a certificate or degree?
No. Cadence is for practical self-learning and does not award accredited degrees or professional certification.
Start today
Type it, answer a few questions, open Lesson 1.
The sentence to type
I want to negotiate a higher salary with confidence. Help me build a case around my contribution, prepare for objections, and discuss options beyond a single number.
Open Cadence on the App Store, type the sentence when it asks what you want to learn, and answer a few setup questions. Free to start. Android testers can request early access.