What problem does it solve? Search fund principals start with 30-80 candidate companies and must manually filter them down to a shortlist of viable acquisition targets, checking each one for business fit, acquisition status, VC/PE backing, and owner findability. This Skill automates that screening pass and produces an annotated Pass/Fail/Flag list. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Multi-source intake: Accepts an existing Inven CSV/Excel export, runs a new natural-language search via the Inven MCP with credit-balance checks and an approval gate, or pulls normalized rows from a udu project. - Four-criterion screening: Evaluates business model fit, acquisition status, institutional backing (Inven funding fields first, web search fallback), and owner findability, with a mandatory ownership web-check for udu-sourced rows. - Dedup against saved lists: Cross-checks batch domains against saved Inven lists and flags duplicates without auto-removing them. - Use Case: You export 60 companies from Inven for a legal case management software niche. The skill screens each row, flags 8 duplicates from a prior list, fails 20 for VC backing or acquisitions, and outputs an annotated spreadsheet plus a summary report with next steps. ## Quick Start Ask Claude to screen the companies in your Inven export file against your acquisition criteria for your target niche.
