Here are 10 finance-based web skills to download and use for your search fund
May 18, 2026
by a lender from University of Michigan - Ann Arbor in New York, NY, USA
1. Pull every new listing off BizBuySell, Sunbelt, MergerTech, and BusinessesForSale. Auto-score each one: green flags (recurring revenue, B2B, owner retiring), red flags (restaurant, franchise, gas station)
2. Get three valuations on a target in one prompt: discounted cash flow, similar-company comps, and sum-of-the-parts. Returns a Bull, Base, and Bear price you can negotiate against.
3. Build a list of similar public companies in seconds. The database has 158K stocks, 36K ETFs, and 57K funds, searchable by industry, country, or exchange.
4. Before a diligence call, score the target's top customers on what people are saying about them online. Pulls from Reddit, X, news, and Polymarket and gives each one a score from negative to positive.
5. Generate a full investment committee packet from one set of inputs: a multi-sheet Excel model, an executive PowerPoint deck, and a formal PDF, all in one chain.
6. When the target's biggest customer is a public company, calculate the actual financial link between the two. Replaces "they're 28% of revenue" with a real number you can defend.
7. Each week, check whether your deal assumptions are getting stronger, weaker, or proven wrong as diligence comes in. Forces you to stay honest about what's changing.
8. Build a one-page cause-and-effect diagram for the lender meeting. Example: lose 20% of customers, margins drop, debt coverage breaks. Outputs a diagram file you can drop into a deck.
9. After you write the equity check, rebuild your personal balance sheet. Model the rest of your portfolio plus your deal equity as one combined book and see the risk you're actually carrying.
10. Each week, auto-generate an industry brief on your target's vertical. Pulls from 10+ news sources plus 90+ data feeds (Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, Reuters, Substack, arXiv) and writes it as a planned, edited, charted report.
Add these files using Claude Code. Just paste the GitHub link, save to your project folder, and deploy.
Repos to download
1 - Repo: github.com/sradgowski/deal-evaluator
2 - Repo: github.com/himself65/finance-skills
3 - Repo: github.com/JerBouma/FinanceDatabase
4 - Repo: github.com/RKiding/Awesome-finance-skills + github.com/himself65/finance-skills
5 - Repo: github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks
6 - Repo: github.com/LongOnly/Quantitative-Notebooks + github.com/himself65/finance-skills
7 - Repo: github.com/RKiding/Awesome-finance-skills
8 - Repo: github.com/RKiding/Awesome-finance-skills
9 - Repo: github.com/LongOnly/Quantitative-Notebooks + github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks
10 - Repo: github.com/RKiding/Awesome-finance-skills + github.com/himself65/finance-skills
from Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Arizona, USA