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How do I ask for a raise with evidence?

You think you are underpaid and you do not know how to say so. Working harder has not changed it, and asking feels like it needs a case you do not have.

◆ How this problem reads on the two dials
GuidanceKnowledge
Some coaching
More to learn
1:1 with AureliusWith others (a Pod)
You & the coach
Practise with peers
CRAFT. Three evidence categories and a budget cycle. Someone fully self-aware and unafraid who does not know when budgets are set will still ask at the wrong time and lose.
How the two dials adapt to you →
What’s really going on

Effort is not evidence — everybody has effort. What moves a raise is money moved, risk removed and load carried, taken to the right person before the budget closes.

🔒 What you’ll build togetherUnlock by starting
KnowledgeThe evidence a raise case is made of
KnowledgeTiming, and who you are really asking
A moveNotice whether you want the money or the acknowledgement. Both are fair; they need different conversations.

What changes unlock by starting

  • You can name three pieces of real evidence rather than effort.
  • You ask before the budget closes rather than at review time.
  • A no becomes written criteria instead of a mood.
One object, two jobs: a public answer to a real problem, and — the moment you start the chat — Aurelius’s live plan for your version of it.