Analyze a Hashike market brief with Claude

What a market brief is, and why hand it to an AI

For each US federal notice performed in Japan, Hashike builds a market brief from past contracts under the same industry code. It puts the award-value distribution, reported offers, the suppliers and buyers involved, data quality and the limits of the data in one document.

A brief is long, and turning it into an internal memo takes time. Claude can answer questions about it from your company's angle and summarize it in Japanese. A model can also change a figure or add one the document does not contain. The steps below take you from handing the brief to Claude through checking every figure it gives back.

What the exported Markdown contains

The file opens with a YAML front matter block listing the solicitation number, agency, NAICS and PSC codes, response deadline and the SAM.gov and USAspending.gov source URLs. The body runs to as many as fifteen sections, from the solicitation itself through sources; an analysis section is left out when the data cannot support it. Each section states its population, meaning which contracts it counted, and the data-quality section and the section on what the data cannot tell you are always included.

Hand it to Claude and ask

1. Sign in to Hashike and open the notice from the opportunities page. Exporting the market brief is an Intelligence plan feature.
2. In the brief's export menu, choose Export Markdown to save a file, or Copy Markdown to put it on the clipboard.
3. Start a new conversation in Claude and attach the file, or paste what you copied.
4. Send the request below after it. Keep the instructions to use only figures from the document and to name the source section for each figure.
5. Ask follow-up questions about what you need, such as the typical award range, how often an award drew a single offer, or which suppliers keep winning.

The attached document is a Hashike market brief for one US federal notice performed in Japan. Answer only from this document. Write your answer in Japanese. For every figure you state, copy it exactly as written, give the heading of the section it came from, and say which population it counts. Keep all amounts in US dollars. If you calculate anything yourself, label it as your calculation and show the inputs. If the document does not answer a question, say so instead of estimating. End with the points from the section on what the data does not tell you that matter for my question.

Check the answer

Take each figure in the answer, search the brief under the section heading Claude gave, and compare. If the same figure is there, Claude copied it. If it is not, Claude either calculated it or produced it from outside the document. Recalculate a calculation from its inputs yourself, and drop anything that is neither.

Check the populations too. In a brief, the award-value figures and the offer counts cover different sets of contracts, because offer counts come only from the awards whose detail record was fetched. If the answer combines figures from different populations into one ratio or comparison, that part does not hold.

Brief amounts are obligated US dollars. An answer that adds them to, or compares them with, Japanese central-government award values in yen cannot be used.