deal-sourcing

deal-sourcing is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/financial-services. It costs 76 tokens per session (816 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A private-equity deal-sourcing workflow for discovering target companies, checking a customer-relationship system and internal communications, and drafting personalised founder outreach.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research companies matching sector, geography, ownership, size, and growth criteria; review email and Slack history; and prepare outreach based on the findings.
Why use it?
It reduces the repetitive work of prospecting and helps avoid missing earlier conversations, prior rejections, or existing relationships.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the private-equity plugin — 7 skills, 10 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to research companies matching sector, geography, ownership, size, and growth criteria; review email and Slack history; and prepare outreach based on the findings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/financial-services/deal-sourcing
About the project

Claude for Financial Services is a collection of agents, skills, commands, plugins, and data connectors for investment banking, equity research, private equity, and wealth-management workflows. Financial professionals use it to draft models, memos, research notes, and reconciliations for review by qualified people. The catalogue contains components from these workflows, including agents, skills, plugins, commands, and instructions.

anthropics/financial-services · 40,817 stars · on GitHub

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.

Any agent
npx skills add anthropics/financial-services --skill deal-sourcing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/financial-services

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install private-equity, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 10 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 816 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 13 Jun 2026
  • Snyk warn 13 Jun 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00076 $0.00816
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00326
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00082

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 47429d5cb480, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deal-sourcing 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/vertical-plugins/private-equity/skills/deal-sourcing/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deal Sourcing

Workflow

This skill follows a 3-step sourcing pipeline:

Step 1: Discover Companies

Research and identify potential target companies based on the user's criteria:

  • Sector/industry focus: Ask the user what space they're looking in (e.g., "B2B SaaS in healthcare", "industrial services in the Southeast")
  • Deal parameters: Revenue range, EBITDA range, growth profile, geography, ownership type (founder-owned, PE-backed, corporate carve-out)
  • Sources: Use web search to find companies matching criteria. Look at industry reports, conference attendee lists, trade publications, and competitor landscapes
  • Output: A shortlist of companies with: name, description, estimated revenue/size, location, founder/CEO name, website, and why they fit the thesis

Step 2: CRM Check

Before outreach, check if the company or founder already exists in the firm's CRM:

  • Search the user's email (Gmail) for prior correspondence with the company or founder
  • Search Slack for any internal mentions or prior discussions about the target
  • Ask the user: "Have you or your team had any prior contact with [Company]?"
  • Flag any existing relationships, prior passes, or known context
  • Output: For each company, note: "New" (no prior contact), "Existing" (prior correspondence found — summarize), or "Previously Passed" (if evidence of a prior pass)

Step 3: Draft Founder Outreach

Draft personalized cold emails to founders/CEOs:

  • Tone: Professional but warm. Not overly formal — founders respond better to genuine, concise outreach
  • Structure:
    1. Brief intro — who you are and your firm (ask user for their firm intro if not known)
    2. Why this company caught your attention — reference something specific (product, market position, growth)
    3. What you're looking for — partnership, not just a transaction
    4. Soft ask — "Would you be open to a brief conversation?"
  • Personalization: Reference the company's specific product, recent news, or market position. Never use generic templates
  • Length: 4-6 sentences max. Founders are busy
  • Voice matching: If the user has sent prior outreach emails, study them to match their tone and style. Search Gmail for "sent" emails with keywords like "reaching out", "introduction", "partnership" to find examples

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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. 1mo ago First seen · 69 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 47429d5cb480

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deal-sourcing is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/financial-services (40,817 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 816 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-12.

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