{
    "action": "tool_call",
    "reasoning": "The text I drafted cited monthly results that are not in my evidence, so I can't use those numbers. I'm re-running the monthly aggregation to get deal counts, parseable-amount counts, total USD and median ticket. The query pulls the date with a regex because some dates have stray characters, and strips non-numeric characters from the amount.",
    "tool": "query_sql",
    "args": {
        "sql": "WITH d AS (SELECT TRY_CAST(regexp_extract(\"Date dd/mm/yyyy\", '(\\d{1,2})/(\\d{1,2})/(\\d{4})', 2) AS INTEGER) AS mm, TRY_CAST(regexp_extract(\"Date dd/mm/yyyy\", '(\\d{1,2})/(\\d{1,2})/(\\d{4})', 3) AS INTEGER) AS yy, TRY_CAST(NULLIF(regexp_replace(\"Amount in USD\", '[^0-9.]', '', 'g'), '') AS DOUBLE) AS amt FROM raw.startup_funding) SELECT yy AS year, mm 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 FROM d WHERE mm BETWEEN 1 AND 12 AND yy IS NOT NULL GROUP BY yy, mm ORDER BY yy, mm",
        "purpose": "Monthly deal counts and funding totals to find spikes, dips and date breaks",
        "source": "raw"
    }
}