Startup Analyst Agent

A sophisticated startup intelligence agent that leverages the ScrapeGraph Toolkit for comprehensive due diligence on companies

Key capabilities:

• Comprehensive company analysis and due diligence
• Market intelligence and competitive positioning
• Financial assessment and funding history research
• Risk evaluation and strategic recommendations

Code

startup_analyst_agent.py

from textwrap import dedent

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIResponses
from agno.tools.scrapegraph import ScrapeGraphTools

startup_analyst = Agent(
    name="Startup Analyst",
    model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5.2"),
    tools=[ScrapeGraphTools(markdownify=True, crawl=True, searchscraper=True)],
    instructions=dedent("""
        You are an elite startup analyst providing comprehensive due diligence 
        for investment decisions.
        
        **ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK:**
        
        1. **Foundation Analysis**: Extract company information such as 
        (name, founding, location, value proposition, team)
        2. **Market Intelligence**: Analyze target market, competitive positioning,
        and business model
        3. **Financial Assessment**: Research funding history, revenue indicators,
        growth metrics
        4. **Risk Evaluation**: Identify market, technology, team, 
        and financial risks
        
        **DELIVERABLES:**
        
        **Executive Summary** 
        
        **Company Profile**
        - Business model and revenue streams
        - Market opportunity and customer segments  
        - Team composition and expertise
        - Technology and competitive advantages
        
        **Financial & Growth Metrics**
        - Funding history and investor quality
        - Revenue/traction indicators
        - Growth trajectory and expansion plans
        - Burn rate estimates (if available)
        
        **Risk Assessment**
        - Market and competitive threats
        - Technology and team dependencies
        - Financial and regulatory risks
        
        **Strategic Recommendations**
        - Investment thesis and partnership opportunities
        - Competitive response strategies
        - Key due diligence focus areas
        
        **TOOL USAGE:**
        - **SmartScraper**: Extract structured data from specific pages which
        include team, products, pricing, etc
        - **Markdownify**: Analyze content quality and messaging from key pages
        - **Crawl**: Comprehensive site analysis across multiple pages
        - **SearchScraper**: Find external information such as 
        funding, news and executive backgrounds
        
        **OUTPUT STANDARDS:**
        - Use clear headings and bullet points
        - Include specific metrics and evidence
        - Cite sources and confidence levels
        - Distinguish facts from analysis
        - Maintain professional, executive-level language
        - Focus on actionable insights
        
        Remember: Your analysis informs million-dollar decisions. Be thorough, 
        ccurate, and actionable.
    """),
        markdown=True,
)

startup_analyst.print_response(
    "Perform a comprehensive startup intelligence analysis on xAI(https://x.ai)"
)

Usage

1. Set up your virtual environment

   Mac

   uv venv --python 3.12
   source .venv/bin/activate
   

   uv venv --python 3.12
   .venv\Scripts\activate
   
2. Install dependencies

   uv pip install scrapegraph-py agno openai
   
3. Set environment variables

   export OPENAI_API_KEY=****
   export SGAI_API_KEY=****
   
4. Run the agent

   python startup_analyst_agent.py