{
    "action": "tool_call",
    "reasoning": "My previous draft had no query results behind it, so I'm computing the monthly deal count and funding totals from the raw table to ground the spike and trend claims.",
    "tool": "query_sql",
    "args": {
        "sql": "WITH p 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) 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 p WHERE d IS NOT NULL GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 1",
        "purpose": "Monthly deal count, total and median funding to identify spikes, trend and breaks",
        "source": "raw"
    }
}