`deal-sourcing`POST

Rank weekly deal opportunities against an investment thesis.

Given an investment thesis, searches the web for private companies, stealth startups, academic spinouts, licensing-ready assets, university papers, ground-breaking research reports, and pre-company signals (labs, grants, patents, PIs). Returns a ranked feed with source-backed mini-memos and suggested next actions.

Endpoint

POST https://api.frontwind.ai/v1/agents/deal-sourcing

Example

curl -X POST https://api.frontwind.ai/v1/agents/deal-sourcing \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer fw_live_..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "thesis": "Early-stage oncology platforms with differentiated ADC or bispecific approaches, US/EU based, pre-Series A or stealth with strong academic pedigree.", "lookback_days": 30 }'

Request body

Field	Type	Required	Description
`thesis`	`string`	Yes	Investment thesis describing sector, stage, modality, and deal criteria.
`lookback_days`	`integer`	default 30
`use_cache`	`boolean`	default false

Response data

Field	Type	Description
`thesis`	`string`
`week_of`	`string`
`deals`	`array`
`sources`	`array`
`warnings`	`array`
`generated_at`	`string`

Example response

{
  "ok": true,
  "agent": "deal-sourcing",
  "data": {
    "thesis": "Early-stage oncology platforms with differentiated ADC approaches…",
    "week_of": "2026-05-27",
    "deals": [
      {
        "deal_uuid": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
        "title": "UCSF linker paper suggests ADC spinout angle",
        "deal_type": "university_paper",
        "deal_score": 88,
        "memo": "A recent university paper describes a novel linker approach with translational ADC relevance [1][2].",
        "suggested_next_action": {
          "text": "Run Target Prioritization to validate targets and genetic evidence behind this ADC approach.",
          "agent_key": "target_prioritization"
        },
        "source_ids": [
          "1",
          "2"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "sources": [
      {
        "id": "1",
        "title": "University ADC linker paper",
        "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/",
        "publisher": "PubMed",
        "source_type": "paper",
        "date": "2026-05"
      },
      {
        "id": "2",
        "title": "ADC translational report",
        "url": "https://www.nature.com/",
        "publisher": "Nature Reviews Drug Discovery",
        "source_type": "research_report",
        "date": "2026"
      }
    ],
    "generated_at": "2026-05-27T12:00:00Z"
  },
  "elapsed_s": 42
}