Claude Code Missed by $800K in M&A Analysis — AlixPartners' 5-Stage Pipeline Fix
AI Engineer · youtube · 2026-11-09
At AI Engineer, Natalia Connolly and Kevin Madura of AlixPartners recount pointing Claude Code at a post-merger procurement analysis of hundreds of vendors and 40,000+ contracts. The first answer looked complete but was off by $800K, and a key renewal deadline was a month late. Causes: long contracts silently failing to process, amendments not linked to parent contracts, and rate tables split across pages. Their fix: a five-stage pipeline that structures data first, plus custom tools with built-in business rules, making every answer traceable. Lessons include surfacing access errors instead of zeros, de-duplicating savings found by parallel agents, and giving the agent business context.
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