Weekly M&A radar for your target sectors

By General Input

Every Monday at 8am, get a prioritized list of last week's acquisitions in your sectors, with strategic context in Slack and a running log in Sheets.

Integrations

  • Crunchbase
  • Slack
  • Google Sheets

Type

Agentic Task

Categories

  • Operations
  • Finance

Build me a weekly M&A radar that runs every Monday at 8am on a cron schedule. The trigger should fire once a week and the agent should cover acquisitions announced in the last 7 days.

Use the agent workflow type. Deal-by-deal strategic interpretation needs reasoning, not a fixed pipeline.

Configurable inputs I want exposed on the workflow:

- Target acquiree categories (a list of Crunchbase category names, e.g. fintech, devtools, vertical SaaS).

- Minimum deal size in USD (default $5M).

- Slack channel ID for the weekly post (default #ma-radar).

- Google Sheet ID and tab name for the running log.

Here is what the agent should do on each run:

1. Call Crunchbase Search Acquisitions to get every acquisition announced in the last 7 days, filtered to my configured acquiree categories and at or above my minimum deal size. Sort by announced date descending.

2. For each acquisition returned, call Crunchbase Lookup Acquisition to get full deal context (price, terms, announced date, status, disposition of acquiree).

3. For each deal, call Crunchbase Lookup Organization on both the acquirer and the acquiree to pull company descriptions, funding history, headcount, and category list.

4. Write a short paragraph per deal (3-5 sentences) that covers: what the acquirer does, what the acquiree does, the apparent rationale for the deal, and what it signals for the sector (consolidation, new entrant, defensive move, talent acqui-hire, platform expansion, etc.). Use the funding history and headcount to inform the read.

5. Rank the deals by strategic significance to my sectors (largest deals and clearest signals first, smallest tuck-ins last).

6. Call Slack Send a Message to post the prioritized list to my configured Slack channel. Format: a one-line header ("M&A radar, week of [date range]: N deals"), then each deal as a bullet with acquirer, acquiree, price, and the strategic paragraph. If there are zero qualifying deals, still post a short note saying so.

7. Call Google Sheets Append Values to log every deal as a new row in the configured Sheet. Columns: announced date, acquirer, acquiree, price (USD), acquiree primary sector, one-sentence summary, Crunchbase acquisition URL.

Notes on data hygiene: skip rumored or terminated acquisitions (only completed or announced). When price is undisclosed, write "undisclosed" in the Slack post and leave the Sheet price cell blank. Use the acquired company's primary Crunchbase category for the sector column.

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