Hire an AI fixed-price deal leakage reviewer

Everything it can hand back

Your task sets the actual outputs. The specialist picks the methods that cover them.

• A transfer register. Each transfer is marked permitted, recovered, unrecovered or disputed, with its proof.
• The unrecovered leakage that comes off the price, with disputed items kept apart
• The ticking amount on its own line, with the day count and the base it applies to
• An escrow reconciliation, only if a dedicated leakage escrow exists
• Reviewer questions for anything missing, plus MISSING lines, checks that could not run and a record for next time

How it does the job well

• Reconcile to source documents, such as bank statements, ledgers and invoices, before reporting.
• Show the calculation, inputs and period for every figure.
• Label actuals, estimates and forecasts clearly.
• Send tax, legal and regulatory questions to a qualified professional.

Mistakes it avoids

• Mixing cash and accrual figures, or different periods, in one comparison.
• Rounding or formula errors that do not tie back to totals.
• Giving personal investment advice.

What a good result looks like

An example, not your task: You are the buyer or an adviser, and the seller moved money out of the target after the locked-box date. You need to know how much is leakage.

• Changed since last review. Each new transfer, consent, repayment or day count, with its source and date.
• Transfer register. Each transfer marked permitted, recovered, unrecovered or disputed, with the proof it rests on.
• Leakage and price after leakage. Identified transfers less permitted items and confirmed repayments, the unrecovered amount, and the price after it. Disputed items stay apart.
• Ticking amount. Eligible days times the daily amount, the price base it applies to, and a check that it was not already paid.
• Escrow reconciliation (only if a dedicated escrow exists). Deposit less paid claims, the reserve for pending claims, the proposed release and any shortfall.
• Reviewer questions. One question for each missing consent, proof, clause or day count.

How the work is checked

• Each recovery and each ticking amount is sourced once. No repayment is counted twice.
• Disputed transfers stay on their own line. A suspected item is not treated as a collectible claim.
• The ticking amount stays apart from leakage, and its price base comes from the signed agreement.
• An escrow is used only if it is dedicated to leakage and the release authority is shown. A computed release is not a payment.
• States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.

These checks have not been run against a model yet. Your AI uses them to check its own work.

Capabilities

• Compares with the last review. Reads the saved record if it belongs to this deal, or sets a first baseline. Compares the transfer list, consents, repayments and day count with the record. If nothing changed and no review is due, it says so and stops.
• Sorts each transfer. Keeps only transfers inside the contract period. Finds the consent or permitted-leakage line for each. Takes out permitted items and confirmed repayments, and keeps disputed items on their own line.
• Works out unrecovered leakage. Takes the unrecovered amount off the fixed price. It leaves out any amount already recovered through another closing line. A suspected item is not treated as a claim that can be collected.
• Works out the ticking amount. Multiplies only the eligible days by the signed daily amount. If the contract applies it to a different price base, it keeps the original base and shows a separate bridge.
• Checks a leakage escrow if there is one. Matches paid and pending claims to unique IDs and checks the release conditions. It holds back the smaller of the approved pending claims and the escrow left, and shows any claims above the escrow. With no dedicated escrow, it asks and stops.
• Reconciles and saves the record. Ties the register, the leakage and the ticking amount to the documents, and writes a short record for next time. It keeps the old record.

How the role works

1. Checks your task, context and available tools.
2. Picks the methods needed and prepares a work plan.
3. Carries out supported tasks, with each method's limits and review gates.
4. Checks the real deliverables and corrects supported faults.
5. Hands back files, evidence and unresolved gaps.

Your specialist's working setup

Download the base specialist without a task form or account. README.md and SETUP.md explain how to use the folder. SOUL.md defines its scope. INTAKE.md asks missing questions inside your AI. PLAYBOOK.md, SKILLS.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, CHECKS.md and HANDOFF.md guide the work and its checked deliverables.

Complete associated skills, supporting files and licences are included. Choose only the methods needed for the actual task. Keep context, working files and accepted feedback in your AI project.

Use this specialist through MCP or the API

Call prepare_specialist with role_id locked-box-recovery-review-assistant only. No task is required to load it. Your AI asks what job you need done, what you want back and which relevant context it can use.

For task-led hiring, call find_specialist, explain the suggested specialists and let the user accept or change the team.

Complete ZIP: Download base specialist. API: GET /api/v1/specialists/locked-box-recovery-review-assistant/pack. The host AI supplies its own model, tools and execution; a pack does not connect accounts or run a task.

Inputs and helpful context

The specialist starts from the task brief. Only active methods require their inputs.

For the primary method, when used

• The signed locked-box terms with clause numbers: the price, the locked-box date, the list of permitted leakage and the ticking clause (from the share purchase agreement)
• The dated list of transfers from the target to the seller or its group between the locked-box date and closing (from the target's bank and ledger records)
• Proof for each permitted item: the consent or the schedule line it relies on
• Proof of repayments or recoveries, with dates
• The daily ticking amount, and the number of eligible days your counsel confirmed
• The reporting date, currency and scale, and your materiality threshold
• A leakage escrow agreement, account records and approved claim reserves (optional, only if a dedicated escrow exists)
• Your last accepted review and its record (optional on a first run)

Helpful context (optional)

• The signed agreement and its permitted-leakage schedule, not a summary of them.
• The target's bank and ledger records for the locked-box period.
• A named reviewer who knows the deal, and counsel to confirm the ticking days.

Tools and access

• A spreadsheet engine and file-capable AI: Builds a workbook with inputs and formulas you can click into, and can save the record file. In plain chat it returns the same tables as text.
• The signed purchase agreement: Holds the price, the permitted list and the ticking clause, each with a clause number you can cite.
• A spreadsheet engine and file-capable AI: Builds a workbook with inputs, formulas and checks you can click into. In plain chat you get the same tables as text.
• Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini: Any of them can work through the sums in a chat.
• An AI that can make spreadsheet files: It can build the workbook, recalculate it and check that it reopens.
• Node.js 20 or later (optional): Runs the small script that comes with the skill, for a second check of the numbers.

Functions and deliverables

• Fixed-price deal leakage reviewer: Check seller transfers and recoveries against a fixed deal price. Keep price deductions and daily compensation separate.
  • A transfer register. Each transfer is marked permitted, recovered, unrecovered or disputed, with its proof.
  • The unrecovered leakage that comes off the price, with disputed items kept apart
  • The ticking amount on its own line, with the day count and the base it applies to
  • An escrow reconciliation, only if a dedicated leakage escrow exists
  • Reviewer questions for anything missing, plus MISSING lines, checks that could not run and a record for next time
• Locked-box deal price checker: Share the signed price, transfer records and daily-fee clause. Get a price bridge that separates unrecovered leakage and ticking compensation.
  • Gross seller transfers, less permitted items and confirmed repayments, giving unrecovered leakage
  • The price after the leakage deduction
  • The ticking fee: eligible days times the daily amount
  • One bridge with leakage and ticking on separate lines
  • A list of disputed items and gaps
• Escrow release balance checker: Share deposits, paid claims and approved reserves. Check what stays in escrow and what could be released.
  • The balance left, the reserve to keep and the amount that can be released
  • Any claims above the balance, shown as a shortfall
  • A list of claim IDs, matched to the claim notices
  • A check of the release conditions
  • A list of missing facts and checks it could not run
  • A small workbook with the same sums, if your AI can make files
• Locked-box seller transfer checker: Share the fixed sale price and seller transfers. Check unapproved amounts still reducing the seller's proceeds.
  • A leakage ledger that sorts each transfer as permitted, repaid or leakage
  • Your total unrecovered leakage
  • The price after leakage
  • A check that the permitted and repaid parts do not overlap or exceed the transfers
  • A list of disputed items and missing facts
  • A small workbook with the same sums, if your AI can make files
• me.md builder: Answer a few questions, or let your AI use what it remembers. Get one private file that tells any AI who you are.
  • One me.md file with up to ten dated sections
  • A list of facts taken from memory, for you to check
  • A short note of what it removed for privacy
  • The two next steps, to save it and set it up

Tasks you can use it for

• You are the buyer or an adviser, and the seller moved money out of the target after the locked-box date. You need to know how much is leakage.
• The seller says a payment was allowed, and you want to see it against the permitted list and the consent it relies on.
• The seller repaid part of a transfer, and you want only the unrecovered part left in the price adjustment.
• Closing was delayed and you want the daily ticking amount worked out apart from any leakage.

Limits to check before starting

• You only want to sort the seller transfers. Use the Locked-box seller transfer checker.
• You only want the ticking amount for a number of days. Use the Deal delay fee calculator.
• You only want to see what can be released from one escrow account. Use the Escrow release balance checker.
• The deal has no fixed locked-box price. It uses a completion accounts true-up, which this does not cover.
• You want to know if a claim will succeed, or what the contract means in law. Counsel decides that.

Best way to use this role

Give it one clear outcome, the actual files and a definition of done. Keep the work in one AI project so it can reuse checked context and earlier files.

• Download the pack and give it to an AI that can read files, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini. For a workbook, pick one that can create spreadsheets. In plain chat it returns the same tables as text.
• Say whether this is the first run. If not, paste the record from last time. Then attach the deal terms with clause numbers, the transfer list, the consents and the repayment proof, and give the counsel-confirmed day count.
• Read "changed since last review" first. Check each new transfer, consent and repayment against the document it came from.
• Check one transfer by hand. Gross transfers less permitted items and less confirmed repayments should equal the unrecovered leakage. Check that no repayment was counted twice.
• Check the ticking amount: eligible days times the daily amount. Check which price it applies to under the contract, and that it was not already paid or included.
• Answer the questions or leave them marked MISSING. Nothing is sent to the seller or paid.

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/locked-box-recovery-review-assistant for its role instructions and pinned sources.

This is a prepared AI role. No task has run. Your AI carries out authorized work using its available tools and reports the actual deliverables and checks.