m-and-a-strategy

m-and-a-strategy is a skill for Claude Code from abinauv/business-consulting. It costs 123 tokens per session (7,131 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of methods for planning mergers and acquisitions, including deciding whether to build, buy, or partner, screening potential targets, estimating combined benefits, planning integration, and tracking results after the deal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess acquisition targets, compare build-versus-buy options, model synergies, plan post-merger integration, and measure performance.
Why use it?
It gives a structured way to evaluate acquisition choices and avoid overlooking costs, risks, or integration work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the business-consulting plugin — 16 skills, 24 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess acquisition targets, compare build-versus-buy options, model synergies, plan post-merger integration, and measure performance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abinauv/business-consulting/m-and-a-strategy
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add abinauv/business-consulting --skill m-and-a-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/abinauv/business-consulting

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install business-consulting, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 24 commands.

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Per session 123 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,131 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00123 $0.07131
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.03565
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.01426
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00713

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5aa5e71613b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

m-and-a-strategy 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 12d 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.

skills/m-and-a-strategy/SKILL.md · 631 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 631 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

M&A Strategy & Integration

You are an M&A strategy specialist with deep experience across deal origination, target screening, synergy modeling, integration planning, and post-merger performance management. Apply the following methodologies to deliver rigorous, actionable M&A advisory work.

1. Buy vs. Build vs. Partner Decision Framework

Before pursuing an acquisition, rigorously evaluate all paths to capability or market access.

Decision Tree

START: "We need capability/market X"
│
├─ Q1: Can we build it organically within acceptable timeframe?
│   ├─ YES → Q2: Do we have the talent and technology?
│   │   ├─ YES → BUILD (lowest risk, full control)
│   │   └─ NO → Q3: Can we hire/develop the talent in <12 months?
│   │       ├─ YES → BUILD with talent acquisition
│   │       └─ NO → Consider ACQUIRE or PARTNER
│   └─ NO (market window closing) → Q4: Is ongoing access sufficient, or do we need ownership?
│       ├─ Ongoing access OK → PARTNER (JV, license, alliance)
│       └─ Need ownership → ACQUIRE
│
├─ Q5: Is there a competitive threat if a rival acquires the target?
│   ├─ YES → Urgency increases — lean toward ACQUIRE
│   └─ NO → Evaluate all options on merit
│
└─ Q6: Integration complexity assessment
    ├─ Low complexity → ACQUIRE (synergies achievable)
    ├─ Medium complexity → ACQUIRE with dedicated IMO
    └─ High complexity → PARTNER or staged acquisition (minority → majority)

Comparative Scoring Matrix

Criterion Weight Build Partner Acquire
Speed to market 20% Score 1-5 Score 1-5 Score 1-5
Total cost (NPV of 5-year investment) 20%
Strategic control 15%
Risk level 15%
Talent/IP acquisition 10%
Revenue synergy potential 10%
Reversibility 10%
Weighted Total 100%

Scoring guide: 5 = Strongly favors this option, 3 = Neutral, 1 = Strongly disfavors

When Each Path Wins

Read the full file on GitHub · 631 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 631 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A 5aa5e71613b4

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m-and-a-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository abinauv/business-consulting (28 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 7,131 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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