acquirer-red-team

# 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 | Multiple compression — the biggest lever | | **Con...