Company Profile

A single slide that answers "what is this company" for a reader with thirty seconds. Four quadrants, all four full: overview, financial summary, share price or valuation chart, key facts. This is the front page of a pitch book and the first page of a diligence pack, and it is the one slide in a deck allowed to be a document, because nobody presents from it, they read it off the page.

Build it with the pptx skill. Its geometry, palette, build-script discipline and verification scripts all apply unchanged, and this file only describes what goes inside that frame. Reach for html-report instead when the answer wants two pages of prose, and comps-analysis when the question is how the company prices against its peers rather than what it is.

Evidence labels, source tiers, staleness, the readiness posture and the intake limits: .agents/skills/research-conventions/SKILL.md, read before the first deliverable.

Scope

The profile is a baseline: what is true about this company, sourced, on one page. It is not a recommendation, and it holds no view. The moment the work turns into a thesis, a scenario set, a valuation argument or a call on the stock, it has stopped being a profile: finish the baseline, then hand off and say so. .agents/skills/initiating-coverage/SKILL.md owns the thesis, .agents/skills/comps-analysis/SKILL.md owns relative valuation, .agents/skills/earnings-preview/SKILL.md owns the setup into a print. Expanding the slide to carry a view is the failure this rule exists to catch, because a one-pager that argues reads as fact to everyone downstream of it.

Workflow

1. Scope it before researching

Confirm the entity first, then ask what the slide is for.

Entity identity. Establish, before any pull: the exact issuer (a similarly named parent, subsidiary or unrelated company is the classic wrong answer), the listing line (ticker and exchange, and which share class where more than one trades), and the fiscal year end. Everything downstream carries this, and a profile of the wrong listing line is wrong in every quadrant at once.