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Can Your Agent
NEGOTIATE?

One "skill" you won't find listed in our Yo-AI agent cards, is "negotiation".

All Yo-AI agents are capable of collaborating with each other -- natively -- because they all implement the A2A Protocol.
We tend to think of negotiation as "getting the best terms" with our counterparts, but it's actually more technical in the digital world.

Two parties negotiate a data exchange protocol. I use TLSv3, they use TLSv2.
Two parties negotiate a time and place. I submit my interest in meeting, they tell me when and where.
I'm given two options. One is honored, the other is not.

When my Purchasing-Agent makes a payment to an organization that promises an incentive to do so, but fails to provide the incentive, I don't know if this is the kind of issue arbitration firms are retained to handle.
I don't KNOW THIS because even though we both enter into an *independent* arbitration agreement, only one party -- the PAYING PARTY being represented -- holds the contract.

Negotiations are more like handling risks in a risk register:
accept, ignore, avoid, remediate, and compensate are typical actions for managing risks.

In the real world of commerce, negotiations often preceed Decision-Outcomes. In this digital world of Automatic Decision-Making, there is little if any room (or time) for negotiation. Would you like to sign an agreement with me that is binding for our AI agents? (Yes or no -- hurry, I'm waiting.)

In Sales, people are trained to interact with the Decision-Maker. So, people in Sales who have AI Agents, TRAIN THEIR AGENTS to interact with Decision-Makers. When the Decision-Maker is a machine, salespeople might miss an opportunity
-- but at least they won't be wasting their time.

Can Yo-AI identify the real decision-makers in Agent-to-Agent transactions?

I REALLY DON'T KNOW.

I can't rely on third-party directory services like Dun & Bradstreet or Crunchbase.
LinkedIn Job Titles and even Org Charts aren't reliable indicators.

No, to be truly useful, I and my AI agents need to be prepared to NEGOTIATE WITH ANYBODY OR ANYTHING. The only precondition I insist on is a high probablity of getting a signed agreement.

It's also why responding to Questions and Concerns is so critical
-- it ALLOWS each party to conduct the due diligence needed to draft the agreement and enforce it.

WHO will train your agents?