What problem does it solve? Standard valuation machinery silently produces confident but wrong numbers when pointed at banks, pre-revenue startups, distressed firms, or cyclical companies at a cycle extreme. This Skill converts what is knowable about a company into an explicit route — one primary valuation engine, overlays, an ordered pipeline, and a list of forbidden methods — before any valuation begins. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Signal extraction and gating: Computes sector type, life-cycle stage, earnings status, leverage, distress markers, and other signals from financial statements, then runs sequential gates (S2–S6) to select one of sixteen branches B1–B16. - Constraint compilation: Emits a machine-readable classification.json with hard constraints such as no-fcff-valuation for banks or require-failure-probability for distressed firms, enforced downstream by the valuation critic. - Combination rules: Resolves multi-branch companies deterministically with precedence rules, mutually exclusive pairs, and multiplicative probability composition. - Use Case: Before valuing a loss-making emerging-market bank, run the routing pipeline to produce a classification artifact that mandates an FCFE-to-regulatory-capital engine, an exposure-weighted equity risk premium, and an equity-wipeout probability — and forbids any FCFF or enterprise-multiple approach. ## Quick Start Classify this company using its financial statements and mandate, then write the classification.json route and diagnosis.md reasoning for the valuation team.
