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Challenge

M&A Analyst Team for Acquisition Bid Analysis

For strategic M&A analysis, this challenge involves building a sophisticated multi-agent system capable of analyzing such high-stakes financial maneuvers. Participants will design, implement, and orchestrate a team of specialized agents using LangGraph to model a strategic advisory firm, leveraging GPT-5 for advanced reasoning and decision-making. This system will utilize an A2A protocol for seamless communication between agents, enabling complex collaborative workflows. Critical to its functionality will be MCP-enabled tool integration, allowing agents to access real-time financial data, news feeds, and market sentiment analysis platforms. The agents will employ extended thinking patterns with adaptive reasoning budgets to conduct in-depth due diligence, scenario planning, and risk assessment for a hostile takeover situation, culminating in comprehensive strategic recommendations.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Build a graph-based multi-agent system using LangGraph with GPT-5 Pro for strategic M&A analysis, incorporating A2A protocol and MCP tool integration.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

The evaluation will assess the multi-agent system's ability to provide a comprehensive and accurate M&A strategic advisory memo. This includes the depth of analysis, accuracy of financial insights, identification of key risks, and quality of strategic recommendations, as well as the efficiency of agent collaboration and tool utilization.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Apply extended thinking with adaptive reasoning budgets for M&A scenario planning.

  • Orchestrate a team of role-based agents for comprehensive strategic insights.

  • Design MCP-enabled tool integration for real-time financial data and news feeds.

  • Build graph-based multi-agent workflows for complex financial analysis.

  • Implement A2A protocol for secure and structured agent-to-agent communication.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Sample data for 1 tasks

Challenge setup

The evaluation will assess the multi-agent system's ability to provide a comprehensive and accurate M&A strategic advisory memo. This includes the depth of analysis, accuracy of financial insights, identification of k...

Challenge input

{'news_articles': [{'title': '...', 'content': '...'}], 'company_profiles': {'Paramount': {'market_cap': '...', 'revenue': '...'}, 'WBD': {...}}}

Agent execution

No agent tool is listed for this challenge.

Evaluated output

A JSON object containing: {'memo_title': '...', 'executive_summary': '...', 'market_analysis': '...', 'financial_impact': '...', 'key_risks': '...'...

Evaluation checks
  • Ensure the output is a valid JSON adhering to the specified schema.
  • Check if all critical sections (e.g., 'executive_summary', 'strategic_recommendations') are present and non...
Configured evaluation evidence
  • Factual Accuracy Score target: 0.9
Configured runtime
  • Python execution harness

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Configured tools

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Evaluation contract

  • Ensure the output is a valid JSON adhering to the specified schema.
  • Check if all critical sections (e.g., 'executive_summary', 'strategic_recommendations') are present and non-empty.

Metrics

  • Factual Accuracy Score · Target 0.9
  • Analysis Depth Score · Target 4
  • Recommendation Relevance Score · Target 4
  • Tool Utilization Efficiency · Target 0.8

Workflow tasks

  1. Task 1

    Input: {'news_articles': [{'title': '...', 'content': '...'}], 'company_profiles': {'Paramount': {'market_cap': '...', 'revenue': '...'}, 'WBD': {...}}}

    Output: A JSON object containing: {'memo_title': '...', 'executive_summary': '...', 'market_analysis': '...', 'financial_impact': '...', 'key_risks': '...', 'strategic_recommendations': '...', 'tool_usage_log': [{...}]}

    Execution harness: Python

Recipe freeze marker

No recipe freeze time is recorded.

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