{
    "action": "tool_call",
    "reasoning": "My earlier reply was not valid JSON and its numbers aren't in evidence, so I'll re-run the core query: deals per year with the share of deals that have a numeric amount, plus total and median amounts. This grounds the slowing-or-thinning-out question.",
    "tool": "query_sql",
    "args": {
        "sql": "SELECT regexp_extract(\"Date dd/mm/yyyy\", '(\\d{4})\\s*$', 1) AS yr, COUNT(*) AS deals, COUNT(TRY_CAST(REPLACE(\"Amount in USD\", ',', '') AS DOUBLE)) AS deals_with_amount, SUM(TRY_CAST(REPLACE(\"Amount in USD\", ',', '') AS DOUBLE)) AS total_usd, MEDIAN(TRY_CAST(REPLACE(\"Amount in USD\", ',', '') AS DOUBLE)) AS median_usd FROM raw.startup_funding GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 1",
        "purpose": "Yearly deal counts, disclosed-amount coverage, total and median amounts to test whether funding is slowing or coverage is thinning",
        "source": "raw"
    }
}