<invoke name="tool_call"> <parameter name="reasoning">No evidence yet; compute monthly deal counts and amount totals/medians from raw, cleaning the noisy date and amount strings.</parameter> <parameter name="tool">query_sql</parameter> <parameter name="args">{"sql": "WITH c AS (SELECT try_strptime(regexp_replace(\"Date dd/mm/yyyy\", '[^0-9/]', '', 'g'), '%d/%m/%Y') AS d, TRY_CAST(regexp_replace(\"Amount in USD\", '[^0-9.]', '', 'g') AS DOUBLE) AS amt FROM raw.startup_funding) SELECT date_trunc('month', d)::DATE AS month, COUNT(*) AS deals, COUNT(amt) AS deals_with_amount, ROUND(SUM(amt)/1e6,1) AS total_usd_m, ROUND(MEDIAN(amt)/1e6,2) AS median_usd_m, ROUND(MAX(amt)/1e6,1) AS max_deal_usd_m FROM c WHERE d IS NOT NULL GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 1", "purpose": "Monthly deal counts and funding totals to spot spikes, dips and breaks", "source": "raw"}</parameter> </invoke>