Offer Brief — Lite
$79one-time
The essentials, without the exec-comp machinery you don't need yet.
- —Verdict + 0–100 score
- —Market wage band
- —Negotiation play
- —Evidence & source citations
The rate card
Priced against the swing, not the page count.
Start with a free check. Pay once, only when there's a decision on the table — and only as much as the decision is worth. Every paid brief is refundable within seven days.
What you pay
$199
a one-time Offer Brief
moves
p25 · $153,301p75 · $207,674
The room you're negotiating in
$54K
between the 25th and 75th percentile for Software Developers in California — across 34,547 certified DOL filings. That is the room, not a promised outcome. how we compute it
Free · no checkout
Run a free check →Comp check
Role, level, and metro → your market band and a company-health teaser. No full brief.
Offer Brief
$199one-time
The full brief — research-grade. The default for most offers on the table.
- ✓Everything in Lite, plus —
- —Full company-health & runway
- —Role-level risk read
- —The full negotiation playbook
- —Cited to source — or it doesn't ship
Executive Brief
$499one-time
When one term is worth five figures — equity, AMT, a competing offer.
- ✓Everything in Offer, plus —
- —The refresh question, answered — real grant cadence and sizes at the senior level. Filed, not surveyed.
- —What the top of the house takes home, from its own filings
- —Equity & tax modeling (AMT, cliffs)
- —Multi-offer comparison
- —The deepest negotiation play
“Most people never ask for a refresh clause — because no one told them it exists.”
§5 · The negotiation playbook — the asks, the counters, the words
Side by side
What each brief carries.
| Comp checkFree | Lite$79 | Offer$199 | Executive$499 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market wage band (DOL) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Company-health teaser | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Verdict + 0–100 score | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Negotiation play | — | ✓ | full | deepest |
| Full company-health & runway | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Role-level risk read | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Equity & tax modeling | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Multi-offer comparison | — | — | — | ✓ |
Membership ($149/yr · longitudinal) is an annual subscription — separate from the one-time briefs above.
Whichever you choose
Every brief carries the same standards.
Primary-source citations
Every serious claim points back to a filing, wage dataset, or public record you can open yourself.
Private to you
Built from public data and sealed to your account. No company is ever contacted.
Built after checkout
Assembled for your company, role, and package — not pulled from a shelf.
Seven-day refund
If a paid brief doesn't earn its keep, it's refundable within seven days — no questions.
On pricing, plainly.
What's the difference between Lite and the full Offer Brief?+
Lite is the verdict, score, market band, and the negotiation play — right for early-career offers. The $199 Offer Brief adds the full company-health and runway read (Lite doesn't carry one), the role-level risk read, the complete playbook, and a citation on every claim — one we can't ground doesn't ship.
Why is the Executive Brief $499?+
Because the decision is bigger. When the package carries real equity, AMT exposure, and a competing offer, getting one term right is worth tens of thousands. The Executive Brief adds equity-and-tax modeling, multi-offer comparison, and the deepest negotiation play — and the buyers in this tier expense it.
Is the free comp check really free?+
Yes — no account, no card. You get your market band and a teaser of the company read. There's no full brief at the free tier; it's how most people meet Footnote.
Is there a subscription?+
The briefs are one-time — pay per decision, never a subscription to read them. Optionally, a $149/yr Membership keeps your career on a standing watch: annual re-benchmarks against the live market band, an auto-drafted raise case when you drift below it, and alerts when your own employer files something that moves your number.