portfolio-monitoring
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Its description
Track and analyze portfolio company performance against plan. Ingests monthly/quarterly financial packages (Excel, PDF), extracts KPIs, flags variances to budget, and produces summary dashboards. Use when reviewing portfolio company financials, preparing board materials, or monitoring covenant compliance. Triggers on "review portfolio company", "monthly financials", "how is [company] performing", "covenant check", or "portfolio update".
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When it starts
The agent sees only the name and description, and the description says to use it when reviewing portfolio company financials, preparing board materials, or monitoring covenant compliance. So a person asking how a portfolio company is performing against plan, or handing over monthly/quarterly financials, would set it off.
Things a person might say (the model's guesses)
- “How is Acme Industrial performing this quarter?”
- “Here are the monthly financials for our portfolio company — can you review them?”
- “Can you do a covenant check on the latest package for Vertex?”
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What leads to it
- valuation-reviewer calls this valuation-reviewer, line 20
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Apache-2.0, from LICENSE
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Portfolio Monitoring
Raw lines 1 to 7Workflow
Raw lines 8 to 9Step 1: Ingest Financial Package
- Accept the user's portfolio company financial package (Excel workbook, PDF, or CSV)
- Extract key financials: Revenue, EBITDA, cash balance, debt outstanding, capex, working capital
- Identify the reporting period and compare to prior period and budget/plan
Step 2: KPI Extraction & Variance Analysis
Key metrics to track (adapt to the company's sector):
Financial KPIs:
- Revenue vs. budget ($ and %)
- EBITDA and EBITDA margin vs. budget
- Cash balance and net debt
- Leverage ratio (Net Debt / LTM EBITDA)
- Interest coverage ratio
- Capex vs. budget
- Free cash flow
Operational KPIs (ask user or infer from data):
- Customer count / revenue per customer
- Employee headcount / revenue per employee
- Backlog / pipeline
- Churn / retention rates
Step 3: Flag & Summarize
- Green: Within 5% of plan
- Yellow: 5-15% below plan — flag for discussion
- Red: >15% below plan or covenant breach risk — immediate attention
Output a concise summary:
- One-paragraph executive summary ("Company X is tracking [ahead/behind/on] plan...")
- KPI table with actual vs. budget vs. prior period
- Red/yellow flags with context
- Covenant compliance status (if applicable)
- Questions for management
Step 4: Trend Analysis
If multiple periods are provided:
- Chart key metrics over time (revenue, EBITDA, cash)
- Identify trends — accelerating, decelerating, or stable
- Compare vs. underwriting case
Important Notes
- Always ask for the budget/plan to compare against if not provided
- Don't assume sector-specific KPIs — ask what matters for this company
- If covenant levels aren't known, ask the user for the credit agreement terms
- Output should be board-ready — concise, factual, no fluff
From anthropics/financial-services at 6056506, 2026-10-28. Skills read by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 2026-11-04. Summary and techniques by Claude Opus 5.5 on 2026-11-06.