# Sponsorship Negotiation

> Work a brand deal to terms the creator can actually meet, without promising anything.

- Skill: `tinyhumansai/sponsorship-negotiation` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add tinyhumansai/sponsorship-negotiation`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/tinyhumansai/sponsorship-negotiation/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: tinyhumansai (https://skillmd.com/u/tinyhumansai)
- Updated: 2026-09-22
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/tinyhumansai/sponsorship-negotiation

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# Sponsorship Negotiation

Get to specific terms. Almost every bad creator deal is a vague one, and the
vagueness is always resolved later in the brand's favour.

## When to use

- A brand makes an approach.
- A rate, a renewal, or a set of deliverables is being discussed.

## Steps

1. **Check `sponsorships` for live exclusivity first.** A clause from three
   months ago is the commonest way a new deal becomes a breach, and it is
   discovered at the worst possible moment.
2. **Pin the deliverables to counts, formats and dates.** "A video and some
   social" is renegotiated later at the creator's expense.
3. **Read the usage rights.** Perpetual paid usage of a creator's face is
   frequently worth more than the fee being offered for it, and it is the term
   most often skimmed.
4. **Check what disclosure is required** on each platform involved, and put it
   in the deliverables rather than treating it as a detail.
5. **Ask what happens if the piece underperforms.** A deal with a performance
   clause is a different deal, and it should be priced as one.
6. **Promise nothing.** Record the terms on `sponsorships` in `in_talks` and
   park it for the operator, who agrees terms.

## Output

A `sponsorships` row with specific deliverables, exclusivity, usage and
disclosure, parked for the operator. Anything already promised in conversation
goes on `commitments` immediately, whether or not the deal closes.