Deal Market Intelligence (External Research Playbook)

What external market evidence should shape this deal's valuation, risk, price deck, and bid? Trigger phrases: market intelligence brief, deal market intelligence, operator comps, basin comps, takeaway market, external deal research. Produces: source-backed market intelligence brief.

Corporate Strategy And Portfolio · Underwriting · v1

Measured quality evidence

Quality lift unmeasured

Registry maturity does not prove response or artifact quality. No qualifying same-model skill-on versus no-skill improvement has been verified.

Required comparison: same model with this skill enabled versus the same model without the skill.

Inputs and output

Required inputs

Citation Ledger
Claim Evidence
Comp Filters
Deal ID
Deal Name
External Sources
Price Deck
Red Team Fact Bundle
Research Gaps
Valuation Methods

Optional inputs

Basin
Counterparty Name
Operator Name
Research Markdown
Research Risks

Required source documents

External Sources
Other

Expected outputs

Market Intelligence Brief

Buyer-profile access

Policy visibility is not execution proof. Authentication is checked before a run.

Available

Read-only connection

The skill entry point is callable. Any downstream write or external action is checked separately.

Available

Partner workspace

The skill entry point is callable. Any downstream write or external action is checked separately.

External-action review

IC review applies before a consequential external or binding action. Analysis and working artifacts remain available before that review.

No specific external-action review item is declared.

Input gaps and limits

Dependent input gaps

Research Markdown is missing or unverified: The dependent calculation remains open. CRUX returns the other supported work and names the exact input needed.

Known limitations

Preview capability: useful but incomplete eval or SME coverage; human review required.
Do not use to compute NAV, returns, or the IC memo (that is comprehensive-deal-evaluation + a governed capability), and do not use it to manufacture facts the client did not actually fetch. If the client has no web access this turn, the surfaces abstain — do not infer market data from memory.