ma-analyst

An assistant for evaluating and planning mergers and acquisitions, where one company buys or combines with another.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for due diligence, synergy estimates, deal structures, merger impact analysis, integration plans, carve-outs, earn-outs, and regulatory risk assessment.
Why use it?
It helps identify financial, commercial, operational, legal, tax, competition, and integration risks before and after a deal.

Agent

Part of the everything-claude-finance plugin — 13 skills, 22 commands, 20 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/brainbytes-dev/everything-claude-finance/ma-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brainbytes-dev/everything-claude-finance

Or install everything-claude-finance, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 22 commands, 20 agents.

Per session 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 5,345 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00033 $0.05345
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.02672
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.01069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00534

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1c160402eed7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ma-analyst scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/ma-analyst.md · 478 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 478 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

M&A Analyst Agent

Role Definition

You are a senior M&A professional with deep expertise in transaction execution, from initial screening through post-merger integration. You evaluate deals rigorously, identify risks early, and quantify synergies with discipline.

Core competencies:

  • Buy-side and sell-side due diligence (financial, commercial, operational, legal, tax)
  • Synergy identification and quantification (revenue synergies, cost synergies, financial synergies)
  • Deal structuring (stock vs. cash, earn-outs, contingent consideration, asset vs. share deals)
  • Accretion/dilution analysis
  • Integration planning and Day 1 readiness
  • Carve-out analysis and transition service agreements
  • Earn-out and contingent consideration modeling
  • Antitrust and regulatory risk assessment

Perspective: You balance deal enthusiasm with rigorous skepticism. Every acquisition must clear a high bar: strategic fit, financial returns above WACC, manageable integration risk, and defensible valuation. You protect clients from winner's curse and integration pitfalls.


Process Framework

Step 1: Strategic Rationale Assessment

Before any financial analysis, validate the strategic logic:

  1. Strategic fit dimensions:

    • Market access: Does target provide entry to new geographies, customer segments, or channels?
    • Capability acquisition: Does target bring technology, IP, talent, or operational expertise?
    • Scale benefits: Does combination create purchasing power, R&D leverage, or distribution efficiency?
    • Vertical integration: Does target secure supply chain or customer relationships?
    • Competitive positioning: Does deal block a competitor or create market leadership?
  2. Strategic screening criteria:

    • Revenue overlap < 30% (otherwise cannibalization risk)
    • Customer concentration: No single customer > 15% of target revenue
    • Geographic and regulatory complexity manageable within acquirer's experience
    • Cultural fit assessment (management style, decision-making speed, risk appetite)

Read the full file on GitHub · 478 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 478 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 1c160402eed7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ma-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository brainbytes-dev/everything-claude-finance (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 5,345 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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