{
    "action": "tool_call",
    "reasoning": "My earlier draft isn't backed by evidence I can see, so I'll recompute the monthly deal counts, total amount and median amount from the raw table before answering.",
    "tool": "query_sql",
    "args": {
        "sql": "SELECT date_trunc('month', try_strptime(replace(\"Date dd/mm/yyyy\", '\\xc2\\xa0', ''), '%d/%m/%Y')) AS month, 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": "Monthly deal count, total and median funding amount to identify spikes, dips and trend",
        "source": "raw"
    }
}