Austin M&A Tracker
A free-data Austin MSA M&A pipeline that ingests RSS, classifies deals with the Claude CLI, and surfaces them in a SQLite-backed Streamlit dashboard.
stack: Python, SQLite, Streamlit, Claude CLI, RSS, Typst
A working M&A deal tracker built from nine RSS feeds plus a regex prefilter plus Claude CLI batch JSON extraction into SQLite, with a Streamlit dashboard for browsing. Built to send to Austin boutique investment banks as the lead artifact in cold outreach.
Latest
Hand-verified 43 deals across the Austin MSA from August 2024 through May 2026. Quantified the free-data disclosure ceiling at 4 of 43 deals with enterprise value disclosed. The follow-up real estate sub-segment deep-dive lives at /essays/2026-austin-re-deepdive. Tracker essay at /essays/2026-austin-ma-tracker.
Status
Shipped v1. v2 will add an LLM-extracted multiples normalizer for the deals where industry and revenue are public even though EV is not.