Asked to train the AI on your expertise? Know what to ask for.

Why this moment matters more than your review

Everything you pour into your employer's AI, every prompt, every correction, every bit of method, stays on their servers when you leave. You trained an asset you don't own.

That makes the request your strongest negotiating moment, not your weakest. The organisation needs something only you can give. Once it has it, that leverage is gone.

What to ask for

Four things are worth asking for, and your audit helps you choose. Recognition and standing: your name on the system you built, and a seat where it is discussed. A raise or a higher fee: anchored on the value the transfer creates, not on tenure. Free time and autonomy: the deep-work hours the automation frees up, kept by you. A new role or wider scope: the work that uses what only you can do.

If you work for yourself, the equivalent is a proper handover fee. Documenting your method for a client is a deliverable with a price.

How to open the conversation

Lead with the value, not the grievance. Name what the transfer will do for the organisation, then name what you want in return and when. Have a fallback ready: a performance-linked step, a trial period, a scope change on a timeline.

Your Career Audit gives you the leverage points, an opening line and a fallback for whichever of the four you choose, built on your own task list.

Do it early

Reprice while you still have a choice, not the day the restructure lands and you are negotiating with nothing left to trade. The transfer is going to happen. Being paid for it is the part you control.