Acquirer Red Team Skill

Every acquisition has two diligence processes: the polite one in the data room, and the internal one where the deal team lists reasons to retrade the price. This skill runs the second one early. (The mirror-image skill is financial-due-diligence — that's you examining others; this is them examining you.)

What This Skill Produces

• The internal red-flags memo — what the acquirer's team flags, category by category, with a price-chip estimate per finding
• The retrade script — the sentence they'll use to reopen price for the biggest flag
• The debrief — out of character: which flags are fixable pre-process, in what order, and which you must simply pre-disclose

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

• The business — revenue (recurring vs one-time), growth, team size, customer count and concentration, stack age, anything sensitive the user already knows about
• The deal frame (optional) — strategic vs PE buyer, rough multiple expectation; default to a strategic acquirer
• Skeletons (optional but powerful) — the things the user hopes nobody asks about; the simulation is only as useful as this input is honest

Framework: The Five Hunting Grounds

Category	What chips price	Typical chip size
Revenue quality	Non-recurring dressed as recurring, discount-bought renewals, related-party revenue, pilot revenue counted as land-and-expand