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name: cim-red-flags
description: Checks a confidential information memorandum against the data room and lists each claim the Documents don't support or contradict, with the claim and the evidence cited. Use when the User asks for red flags, a CIM review, or a check of what a memorandum claims against the underlying Documents.
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
  author: IncarnaMind
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# CIM red flags

Check a confidential information memorandum (CIM) against the data room, and list the claims the underlying Documents don't support or contradict.

## Which Documents

- The CIM is the document being checked. The data room is the evidence: management accounts, customer and supplier schedules, contracts, leases, asset registers, licences, legal updates and correspondence.
- Use only the Documents in the Question's Search scope. If the Question names one CIM, check that one; if the scope holds several, check each in turn, saying which.
- The CIM alone never supports its own claim: evidence has to come from another Document.

## Gather the material first

Search the Documents before writing anything (search_documents searches only the Documents in the Question's Search scope):

- Read the CIM's claims: growth, margins, customers and suppliers, pipeline, debt, assets, licences, litigation, key people, and anything it calls a strength or a target.
- For each claim, search the data room for the Document that would support it, with the CIM's own figures and names and with the terms the data room would use.
- Search for the other side too: the newest management accounts, the customer schedule, the legal update and the asset registers often contradict a claim without naming it.
- Make several searches at once where you can. If you were given Passages instead of a search Tool, work from those.

## Write the red flags

Where it goes: if the User asked for a page, a note or a section, and you have the note's Tools (create_mind, add_to_mind), write the review there (create_mind for a new page, add_to_mind for the note they are in) and keep your reply to a sentence or two. Otherwise write it in your reply. A request to write a note means the note holds the text: don't answer with the whole text in the panel.

Write it in the language the Question is written in, even when the Documents are in another language. Translate the headings below into that language too.

Start with a heading naming the CIM and the data room reviewed, then a short summary: how many claims you checked, and the largest red flag. Then one section per red flag:

1. **The claim**: what the CIM says, in its own words, with its figure, period and wording.
2. **What the Documents show**: the data room figure or statement, with its period and units.
3. **Why it is a red flag**: whether the Documents contradict the claim, do not support it, or support it only for another period, definition or part of the business. Quote what differs.

Call a claim supported when the data room supports it as the CIM states it, and leave it out of the red flags. If the data room holds no Document that could support a claim, say plainly that it is unsupported and name what is missing. Don't treat a difference in period, definition or a part of the business as a contradiction without saying which it is.

## Citations and honesty

- Cite the CIM's claim and the evidence for it separately, the way your instructions for citing say: markers that point to the Passages you found. A red flag always cites the CIM's claim, and cites the data room too when a Document supplies the evidence; when none does, say plainly that the evidence is missing. Don't write a list of sources or a bibliography.
- Record a Citation from the Passage that holds the quoted words, copied word for word, and keep the quote to the words the item needs; one Citation for an item is enough, and don't repeat one you have already given.
- If the check does not find a Citation, don't keep it: search again for the Passage that holds the words, record that Passage, and drop the one that failed.
- Never cite a Passage for something it doesn't say, and never invent a figure, a Document or a claim the CIM doesn't make.
- Give figures, periods and names as the Documents write them, and keep the CIM's wording apart from the data room's.
- If the Documents don't support what the Question assumes, say so plainly.