Weekly M&A radar: acquisition tracking in your sectors

Build me a weekly M&A radar that runs every Monday at 8am on a cron schedule. The trigger should fire once a week and the agent should cover acquisitions announced in the last 7 days.

Use the agent workflow type. Deal-by-deal strategic interpretation needs reasoning, not a fixed pipeline.

Configurable inputs I want exposed on the workflow:

- Target acquiree categories (a list of Crunchbase category names, e.g. fintech, devtools, vertical SaaS).

- Minimum deal size in USD (default $5M).

- Slack channel ID for the weekly post (default #ma-radar).

- Google Sheet ID and tab name for the running log.

Here is what the agent should do on each run:

1. Call Crunchbase Search Acquisitions to get every acquisition announced in the last 7 days, filtered to my configured acquiree categories and at or above my minimum deal size. Sort by announced date descending.

2. For each acquisition returned, call Crunchbase Lookup Acquisition to get full deal context (price, terms, announced date, status, disposition of acquiree).

3. For each deal, call Crunchbase Lookup Organization on both the acquirer and the acquiree to pull company descriptions, funding history, headcount, and category list.

4. Write a short paragraph per deal (3-5 sentences) that covers: what the acquirer does, what the acquiree does, the apparent rationale for the deal, and what it signals for the sector (consolidation, new entrant, defensive move, talent acqui-hire, platform expansion, etc.). Use the funding history and headcount to inform the read.

5. Rank the deals by strategic significance to my sectors (largest deals and clearest signals first, smallest tuck-ins last).

6. Call Slack Send a Message to post the prioritized list to my configured Slack channel. Format: a one-line header ("M&A radar, week of [date range]: N deals"), then each deal as a bullet with acquirer, acquiree, price, and the strategic paragraph. If there are zero qualifying deals, still post a short note saying so.

7. Call Google Sheets Append Values to log every deal as a new row in the configured Sheet. Columns: announced date, acquirer, acquiree, price (USD), acquiree primary sector, one-sentence summary, Crunchbase acquisition URL.

Notes on data hygiene: skip rumored or terminated acquisitions (only completed or announced). When price is undisclosed, write "undisclosed" in the Slack post and leave the Sheet price cell blank. Use the acquired company's primary Crunchbase category for the sector column.

Additional information

What does this prompt do?

Pulls every acquisition announced in the last 7 days that matches your target sectors and minimum deal size.
Writes a short paragraph per deal explaining what each company does, why the deal happened, and what it signals for your market.
Posts the prioritized list to a Slack channel so the team sees it first thing Monday morning.
Appends every deal to a Google Sheet so finance can build trend views over time.

What do I need to use this?

A Crunchbase account with API access (Enterprise or Applications plan).
A Slack workspace and the channel where the weekly radar should land.
A Google account and a Sheet where deals will be logged.

How can I customize it?

Change the sectors and deal-size floor (for example, fintech and devtools above $10M).
Move the timing (a Friday wrap-up instead of Monday morning, or a different time zone).
Swap the Slack channel, or fan out to multiple channels for different sector groups.
Adjust which columns get written to the log (add geography, investor type, or strategic theme).

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a paid Crunchbase plan for this?

Yes. The acquisition search and lookup features require a Crunchbase Enterprise or Applications subscription. A Basic plan will not return enough detail to power the strategic summaries.

Can I track more than one sector?

Yes. You can list as many sectors as you want, and the agent will filter to acquisitions where the acquired company matches any of them.

What happens on a quiet week with no deals?

The Slack post will say there were no qualifying deals in the last 7 days, and nothing new is appended to the Sheet. You will not get a noisy empty digest.

Can I change the day it runs?

Yes. Monday at 8am is the default, but you can move it to any day and time, including a Friday afternoon roundup of the week's deals.

Will it post duplicates if the same deal shows up two weeks in a row?

The agent only looks at the trailing 7 days for each run, so a deal announced once will only be reported once. The Sheet acts as your permanent record.