Base link colour on the org chart, and deal-negotiation from the buy side

[cbrock84]

The link bug

The four links in the usage panel rendered as browser-default blue — purple once visited — against the page's own palette.

Root cause is more general than those four. The stylesheet had no base rule for a at all. It worked everywhere else by accident: skill links set color:inherit and colour their own children, and the footer link sets its own colour. My four were the only anchors that fell through to the user agent, and any link added later would have done the same.

Fixed at the base rather than on the four:

a { color:var(--accent); text-decoration:none; }
a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }

The existing li a and footer a rules still win where they apply, so nothing else moves.

Verified in a real browser rather than by reading the CSS. Computed colour on all four links:

Theme	Link	Ground
Dark	rgb(217,119,87)	rgb(11,14,20)
Light	rgb(194,102,63)	rgb(246,247,249)

Those are the --accent token in each theme. Worth noting: the first probe run reported the light palette for both schemes — the flag I used wasn't taking effect — so the dark branch was re-checked under an explicit preferred-colour-scheme flag rather than inferred from the light result.

The cross-reference

revenue:deal-negotiation gains a buy-side section. The renewal situation in USE-CASES.md reads that skill from the purchasing side, which the skill itself never mentioned — a capability that existed and was undiscoverable.

It names the two things that actually differ rather than restating the sell-side material:

• Your alternative is weaker than it feels, because switching cost is real and the incumbent knows it. Establish what leaving costs before you open, or you are negotiating without knowing your own floor.
• The leverage is in the calendar and it expires. A renewal approached inside the notice window has already lost its strongest part.

Points at operations:vendor-management for the renewal discipline and operations:procurement-and-sourcing for the competitive process that makes a buy-side walk-away credible at all.

Verification

scripts/check-all.sh — all nine checks pass. References at 273.

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