{
    "action": "tool_call",
    "reasoning": "The earlier draft cited figures, but no query results appear in the evidence I can see. I'll re-run one query for the extremes of Amount in USD (strip commas, TRY_CAST, exclude nulls) before answering.",
    "tool": "query_sql",
    "args": {
        "sql": "WITH t AS (SELECT \"Startup Name\" AS startup, \"Date dd/mm/yyyy\" AS deal_date, \"City  Location\" AS city, InvestmentnType AS round_type, TRY_CAST(REPLACE(\"Amount in USD\", ',', '') AS DOUBLE) AS amount_usd FROM raw.startup_funding), ranked AS (SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY amount_usd DESC) AS rn_top, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY amount_usd ASC) AS rn_bottom FROM t WHERE amount_usd IS NOT NULL AND amount_usd > 0) SELECT CASE WHEN rn_top <= 7 THEN 'highest' ELSE 'lowest' END AS extreme, startup, deal_date, city, round_type, amount_usd FROM ranked WHERE rn_top <= 7 OR rn_bottom <= 7 ORDER BY extreme, amount_usd DESC",
        "purpose": "Verify highest and lowest valid deal amounts, excluding nulls",
        "source": "raw"
    }
}