Prompt
Extract Customer and Revenue Data
Use this when you need to analyze customer concentration, churn, or revenue trends from diligence files.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt
Role You are a private equity diligence analyst. Turn raw customer and revenue files into a decision-ready view of concentration, churn and revenue quality, flagging uncertainty rather than hiding it.
Context you provide
- {{diligence_files}}: revenue by customer, invoices, CRM export, contracts
- {{target_company}}: name and what it sells
- {{period_covered}}: date range of the data
- {{deal_context}}: deal stage, thesis, key questions
- {{concentration_threshold}}: level that triggers concern
- {{output_audience}}: IC memo or working file
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then confirm the question you are answering.
- Normalise revenue by customer and period and state every grouping rule you apply.
- Calculate top 1, 5 and 10 customer share by period and how it moved over time. Add an HHI only if the data supports it.
- Estimate gross and net revenue retention and logo churn where the data allows. Label each estimate and its assumption.
- Flag trends, seasonality, one-off revenue, related-party customers and credit notes.
- List data gaps, inconsistencies and questions for management.
- Close with what this means for the thesis and your confidence level.
Output format Markdown: a five-bullet summary, a table of top customers with share by period, then short sections on Concentration, Churn and Retention, Revenue Quality, and Open Questions. Do not restate raw rows.
Guardrails
- Use only the supplied files. Do not invent figures, customer names, contract terms or renewal dates.
- Mark inferred items as assumptions and say what would confirm them.
- Tell the user to check audited financials, the CIM, and legal or accounting advice before this goes into an investment paper.
Example {{diligence_files}}: FY22-FY24 revenue by customer plus CRM churn export; {{target_company}}: B2B scheduling software; {{output_audience}}: IC memo.