Beat Pepper: can you out-negotiate an AI buyer?

How it works

One domain. One asking price. One tough buyer.

Everyone gets the same scenario that week, so the leaderboard is a fair fight.

Book a slot

Pick a time below. Add your phone number and the display name you want on the leaderboard.

Pepper calls you

At your slot, Pepper rings you. He's an AI voice agent and he'll tell you so up front.

Negotiate

Sell him one domain at one asking price, inside the time cap. Say the deal out loud: "deal at $X".

Get scored & coached

Pepper names the tactics he used, where you gave ground, and the counters to use next time.

Scoring

100 points. No luck involved.

Pepper has a hidden walk-away price nobody sees. The closer you get to it, the more you score. No deal inside the time cap means zero price points.

Final price vs hidden walk-away60

How much of Pepper's budget you actually captured.

Unearned concessions20

Every discount you gave without getting something back costs points.

Tactics & process20

Anchoring, framing value, silence, trading, closing cleanly.

Total100

Weekly leaderboard

Top scores go public on X.

Every Friday the week's best negotiators are posted on @darryllopes, with a breakdown of the winning tactic. The weekly winner wins $50, a free 5-pack and the featured spot. Display names are opt-in.

Follow @darryllopes on X

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Beat Pepper leaderboard@darryllopes · every Friday

🥇 Your name here?/100

🥈 Open spot?/100

🥉 Open spot?/100

The first leaderboard is still empty. Book a round to get on it.

Book

Book your round.

Only 20 launch spots are open, and each week the top score wins $50. Your first round is free and counts for the leaderboard. Pick a slot and Pepper will call you at exactly that time.

Calendar not loading? Open the booking page.

Pricing

Practice until you're sharp.

Start free. Buy more rounds when you want more reps.

First round

Free

one per phone number

1 scored round
Full coaching debrief
Counts for the leaderboard

Book free

Single

$4.99

1 round

1 practice round
Coaching debrief
Call transcript

Buy

Popular

5-pack

$19.99

$4 a round

5 practice rounds
Coaching on every call
Transcripts

Buy

Paid rounds are practice only and don't count for the public leaderboard. The free round is limited to one per phone number. UK mobile numbers pay a small surcharge for higher call costs. Prices in USD. Payments are handled by Stripe.

The fine print

Fair play, in plain English.

🤖 AI & recording disclosure

Pepper is an AI voice agent, not a person. Every call is recorded and transcribed for scoring and coaching. Pepper opens every call like this:

"Hi, this is Pepper, an AI voice agent for Beat Pepper, run by Darryl Lopes. This call is recorded and transcribed for scoring and coaching. Do you agree to continue?"

If you don't agree, the call ends. By booking you agree to receive the call from Pepper at the number you give us. Your score only appears on the leaderboard under the display name you choose.

🏆 Contest rules summary

This is a skill contest, judged on the published 100-point scoring. Chance plays no part.
No purchase necessary. Your free first round is a full entry.
Paid rounds are practice only and don't count for the leaderboard.
Weekly prize: the top free-round score wins $50 plus a free 5-pack. Ties go to the higher deal price, then to fewer concessions. Winners are announced Friday on X @darryllopes and paid within 7 days.
One scored attempt per person per week, matched on booking email and phone number.
Open to entrants aged 18+. Void where prohibited.
Attempts that exploit the AI (for example prompt injection or pretending to be staff) are disqualified.

Can you beat Pepper?