What is Fallback Position?
A pre-approved alternative term a negotiator may offer when the preferred term is rejected. Writing it down lets a person, or an AI tool following the playbook, respond without new sign-off each time.
30 days refused · fallback 45 offered
A fallback position is…
Write it in your own words in the app.
In real work
When the supplier refused 30-day payment terms, the AI tool suggested the fallback position of 45 days from the playbook, and Lena offered it.
In the illustration
The other side's pusher shoves the preferred 30-day block back out of slot 7. From drawer 7 the 45-day block, already ticked as approved, slides in as the next offer, and the ESCALATE flag never rises.
For each of these five preferred terms from a sample playbook, use your legal AI tool to draft one fallback position a negotiator could offer, the trade-off it makes, and the point where a person must approve going further.
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