Transaction Due Diligence Analyzer

You can perform end-to-end DCF validation that identifies formula errors, structural inconsistencies, and unrealistic assumptions before they reach clients or boards. The skill stress-tests key value drivers through sensitivity analysis, benchmarks assumptions against peer and historical data, and prioritizes which variables most impact your valuation conclusion—giving you confidence in your outputs for fairness opinions, M&A transactions, and equity research.

by bigshol

This skill accelerates financial due diligence by analyzing multi-year financial statements, normalizing EBITDA and key metrics, extracting transaction risks from footnotes and MD&A, benchmarking valuation multiples, and structuring risk-prioritized diligence programs. You can process historical financials, identify earnings quality issues, flag contingent liabilities, analyze carve-out interdependencies, and synthesize findings into executive summaries—preserving your judgment on commercial strategy while handling the analytical groundwork.

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You can build enterprise valuation models grounded in operational drivers rather than arbitrary growth assumptions. This skill guides you through documenting explicit assumptions, projecting cash flows tied to historical performance, calculating WACC, determining terminal value, and performing sensitivity and scenario analysis to quantify defensible valuation ranges. Your models will be audit-ready and capable of withstanding client questioning and legal challenge.

by bigshol

You'll work with Claude to systematically normalize historical financials, establish explicit forecast drivers tied to business fundamentals, calculate weighted average cost of capital components, and stress-test valuations across bear/base/bull scenarios. Claude identifies hidden assumptions, flags unrealistic projections, and ensures methodological consistency—transforming subjective modeling into auditable, defensible valuations that withstand institutional scrutiny.

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This skill converts hundreds of diligence documents, management responses, and preliminary findings into coherent risk assessments that drive transaction decisions. You can normalize findings across financial, tax, legal, operational, and commercial due diligence streams, assess materiality and probability, link findings to transaction value impact, and prioritize risks by severity and remediability—all within a structured framework that supports deal committee presentations and client decision-making.

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You conduct comprehensive financial diagnostics that move beyond surface-level metrics to uncover true performance drivers and constraints. The framework systematically layers analysis—identifying what changed, why it changed, what's driving current performance, what benchmarks reveal about competitive position, and which levers will deliver the highest-impact improvements for your specific client. Instead of simply reporting that margins declined, you'll diagnose whether the issue stems from pricing power loss, cost structure misalignment, operational inefficiency, or market conditions, then recommend specific, measurable interventions.

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Turn raw customer research data—interviews, surveys, support tickets, feature requests—into organized, prioritized insights that drive product decisions. This skill identifies recurring themes across enterprise feedback, extracts actionable recommendations, and maps findings to your roadmap strategy, helping you make evidence-based product choices.

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Create clear, hierarchical metric frameworks that cascade from strategic goals to tactical KPIs. You'll validate metric definitions against best practices, assign ownership, and generate stakeholder communication plans. The result is a shared language for success across your organization.

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