Preparing for board discussions
Gives the board a focused assessment of external developments relevant to the portfolio company, with recommended responses to material risks and opportunities.
— Markets & Intelligence
Portfolio Company Risk Radar
Monitors live market signals around a portfolio company across customers, competitors, suppliers, regulation, talent and capital, classifying each as opportunity, risk or watch with the board action for the material ones.
- Markets & Intelligence
- Traceable reasoning
- Runs anywhere
1 week → ~15 minutes
For one complete, review-ready pass
No coding required
- Input
- Portfolio company profile and business context
- Output
- Company-specific external intelligence report
- Runs in
- Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
- Export
- SKILL.md · MCP
- Time saved
- ~1 week per run
— USE CASES
What people use Portfolio Company Risk Radar for
Reviewing competitive market shifts
Assesses developments involving customers and competitors for their implications for the asset. Distinguishes potential threats from opportunities and issues that merit continued attention.
Assessing external operating pressures
Highlights supplier, regulatory and talent developments that could affect delivery or performance. Sets out their significance for the company and the responses the board should consider.
Tracking changing capital conditions
Interprets capital-market developments in the context of the portfolio company. Identifies material risks and opportunities for board consideration.
What it works from
- Portfolio company profile and business context
- Customer, competitor and supplier intelligence
- Regulatory and talent-market developments
- Capital-market news and external market signals
What you get back
- Company-specific external intelligence report
- Risk, opportunity and watch classifications
- Assessment of material implications for the asset
- Recommended board responses to material developments
— HOW IT BEHAVES
How Portfolio Company Risk Radar produces its result
The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.
Consistent classification of risks
Risks are sorted into your categories using the same rules each time, which is what makes a large volume of risk registers, controls and policy documents readable.
Composed as work product
Findings on the risk universe in scope are written up as a document that reads like professional output, with each claim tied back to a risk.
Grounded in your own risk registers, controls and policy documents
The run works from risk registers, controls and policy documents you supply, so conclusions about the risk universe in scope are anchored to your evidence rather than general model knowledge.
Risk registers, controls and policy documents reshaped for use
Content is restructured into the form your deliverable or downstream system expects, with each risk kept intact.
Why this is expensive by hand
External developments can affect a portfolio company’s performance before they appear in management reporting. In practice it shows up as preparing for board discussions: gives the board a focused assessment of external developments relevant to the portfolio company, with recommended responses to material risks and opportunities. The value sits in the rigour, not the typing — yet the rigour is exactly what gets traded away when there is only 1 week of capacity for it.
How this Skill produces it
Here the same job runs as a Skill. Your material goes in; company-specific external intelligence report comes out, alongside risk, opportunity and watch classifications. The judgement is built in — how items are broken up, what standard they are held to, and where the run stops for a human review. The practical effect: 1 week of manual work becomes a ~15 minutes run, held to an identical standard on the tenth engagement as on the first.
Who it's for
- Strategy and market intelligence teams
- Corporate development and investment teams
- Consultants advising on positioning and timing
- Leaders who need early warning, not hindsight
Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere
Portfolio Company Risk Radar exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.
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