private-company-research

private-company-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from skloxo/TideTrading. It costs 153 tokens per session (3,287 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of private-company-research, MIT.

A research framework for estimating the value and risks of private companies, such as SpaceX or Stripe, whose financial information is not publicly reported. It examines the business from several angles and checks findings against multiple sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a private company’s business model, finances, competitors, risks, technology, intellectual property, and other signals before an investment or strategic decision.
Why use it?
Private companies provide less reliable information than publicly traded companies, so research can easily become guesswork or repeat company publicity. This framework helps separate sourced evidence from uncertainty.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to investigate a private company’s business model, finances, competitors, risks, technology, intellectual property, and other signals before an investment or strategic decision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skloxo/tidetrading/private-company-research
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 skloxo/TideTrading --skill private-company-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skloxo/TideTrading

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 153 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,287 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00153 $0.03287
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.01643
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00657
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00329

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1581466137bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

private-company-research 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to private-company-research — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agent/src/skills/private-company-research/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Private-Company Research: Multi-Lens Deep Framework

Deep research on an unlisted company (e.g. Ant Group, ByteDance, SpaceX, Stripe).

Ultimate goal: under information scarcity, recover the company's true value — not the market valuation, but what the business is actually worth.

Framework Characteristics

Private vs public research: no standardized financials (multi-source patchwork + cross-validation); few valuation anchors (funding rounds, comparables, scenarios); large information asymmetry ("jigsaw" research); uncertain exit path (IPO / M&A / secondary).

AI Research Bias Self-Check (core premise)

Private companies are where AI bias is worst. Watch for:

  • False conservatism — with little data, AI gives conservative/vague conclusions, but scarce data ≠ bad company.
  • False precision — to fill the template, AI disguises "reasonable guess" as "sourced analysis".
  • Comparables trap — forcing a public-comp overlay inherits public-market logic and misses private-specific value.
  • Survivorship bias — what's searchable online is mostly company-propagated good news.

Counter: prefer leaving blanks ("I don't know") over filling tables with speculation to fake certainty; label every data point with confidence (🟢high/🟡medium/🔴low); separate verifiable fact from inference; when information is extremely scarce, switch to "first-principles mode" and answer only: ① what real problem does this business solve? ② why this team? ③ ceiling if it succeeds / how it dies if it fails? ④ the key validation node at this stage?

Invert the asymmetry: the market knows little about private companies → pricing is inefficient → that's exactly where alpha may live.

Execution

Six lenses, best run in parallel (via run_swarm, one worker per lens; or sequentially via web_search):

Role Lens
business-decoder Business model + product/user analysis: "what is this business, essentially"
financial-detective Financial patchwork + valuation: "recover the true financial picture under missing data"
competitive-mapper Industry + competition + substitution: "who competes, who could disrupt"
risk-governance-analyst Risk全景 + management/governance/investors: "what could go wrong, who's at the helm"
tech-ip-analyst Tech stack / patents / R&D / moat: "is the tech barrier real and durable"
signal-miner Alternative data (hiring / patents / litigation / app / supply chain): "clues beyond the usual sources"

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 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. 12d ago First seen · 161 lines · 153 tokens per session scan A 1581466137bc

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private-company-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository skloxo/TideTrading (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 153 tokens to every session and 3,287 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to private-company-research, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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