find-and-score-the-candidates

# Find and score the candidates ## What it does Scans the field for names, reads what each candidate sells and to whom, scores each one against the stated reason with the criteria and the inputs recorded, and picks who is approached and in what order. ## Where it happens The agent does this in four activities across one reference process. Each one names the activity as that process words it. - **Pick Who to Approach** - `ref/prt/explore-an-alliance`, activity 6 - [Explore an Alliance](../../../../processes/partners/explore-an-alliance.md) - **Read the Candidates** - `ref/prt/explore-an-alliance`, activity 4 - [Explore an Alliance](../../../../processes/partners/explore-an-alliance.md) - **Scan the Field** - `ref/prt/explore-an-alliance`, activity 3 - [Explore an Alliance](../../../../processes/partners/explore-an-alliance.md) - **Score the Fit** - `ref/prt/explore-an-alliance`, activity 5 - [Explore an Alliance](../../../../processes/partners/explore-an-alliance.md) ## What to record The strategic reason as written before any company was named, dated. The build, buy or ally comparison and what it concluded. The candidate list with the source of each name. Per candidate: what they sell and to whom, the fit score, the criteria it was scored on, and the inputs behind it. The shortlist with the order of approach and who was to make it. Per candidate approached: the date, the person who made contact, and the mutual confidentiality agreement signed before anything beyond public material was shown. The numbers each side traded and the agreement they were traded under. The joint thesis at a version. The exploration record, kept either way, readable by the next run that names the same candidate. That contract covers every activity this abstract agent takes on, and it is repeated in `com.agentcatalog.agent/RECORDS.md`. What the abstract agent does not do is in `com.agentcatalog.agent/NOT.md`.