What problem does it solve? Choosing the wrong valuation method produces confident nonsense: a cost of capital for a bank, a P/E multiple at a cyclical trough, or a going-concern value for a firm near failure. This Skill classifies a company and compiles the exact valuation route — one engine, overlays, an ordered pipeline, and closed methods — so every downstream stage works from a correct foundation. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Signal extraction and gating: Computes margins, coverage, leverage, and distress signals via Python scripts, then applies sequential gates (sector, ownership, life-cycle, survival) to select one of sixteen engine branches. - Route compilation: Emits a machine-readable classification.json with the primary path, overlays, discount stack, sourced constraints, and pipeline order, plus a human-readable diagnosis.md explaining every judgment. - Use Case: As the classification stage of a valuation orchestrator run, it receives mandate.json, raw-financials.json, market-data.json, and gaps.json, then routes a loss-making cyclical manufacturer to a normalized-earnings engine with distress overlays before any forecasting begins. ## Quick Start Ask the valuation orchestrator to classify the target company and produce its valuation route from the collected financial and market data files.
