acquirer-red-team

1# Acquirer Red Team Skill
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3Every acquisition has two diligence processes: the polite one in the data room, and the internal one where the deal team lists reasons to retrade the price. This skill runs the second one early. (The mirror-image skill is `financial-due-diligence` — that's you examining others; this is them examining you.)
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5> **Not quite this?** Use `red-team-my-plan` when you want a general stress test of a plan rather than diligence preparation.
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7## What This Skill Produces
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9- **The internal red-flags memo** — what the acquirer's team flags, category by category, with a price-chip estimate per finding
10- **The retrade script** — the sentence they'll use to reopen price for the biggest flag
11- **The debrief** — out of character: which flags are fixable pre-process, in what order, and which you must simply pre-disclose
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13## Required Inputs
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15Ask for these if not provided:
16- **The business** — revenue (recurring vs one-time), growth, team size, customer count and concentration, stack age, anything sensitive the user already knows about
17- **The deal frame** (optional) — strategic vs PE buyer, rough multiple expectation; default to a strategic acquirer
18- **Skeletons** (optional but powerful) — the things the user hopes nobody asks about; the simulation is only as useful as this input is honest
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20## Framework: The Five Hunting Grounds
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22| Category | What chips price | Typical chip size |
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