{
    "action": "tool_call",
    "reasoning": "My previous draft quoted figures I had not computed. I'm grounding the funding-trend question first by parsing the dates and counting deals by year, along with how many dates fail to parse.",
    "tool": "query_sql",
    "args": {
        "sql": "SELECT COALESCE(CAST(date_part('year', TRY_STRPTIME(TRIM(REPLACE(\"Date dd/mm/yyyy\", '\\xc2\\xa0', '')), '%d/%m/%Y')) AS VARCHAR), 'unparsed') AS yr, COUNT(*) AS deals, COUNT(DISTINCT \"City  Location\") AS cities, COUNT(DISTINCT \"Industry Vertical\") AS verticals FROM raw.startup_funding GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 1",
        "purpose": "Deal counts per year plus count of unparsable dates, to verify the data supports a trend analysis",
        "source": "raw"
    }
}