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# Transaction data

> A transaction record provides source-dependent event, target, participant and disclosed-amount context.

## Overview

A transaction record provides source-dependent event, target, participant and disclosed-amount context.

## Field groups

* Transaction context
* Participants

## Field reference

SOURCE\_DEPENDENT describes availability; access is a separate product/rights boundary. Null means unknown, not false or zero.

| Field                                            | Type                | Availability      | Access       | Description                                                               |
| ------------------------------------------------ | ------------------- | ----------------- | ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Transaction type (transaction.transaction\_type) | string · 0..1       | SOURCE\_DEPENDENT | FULL\_MARKET | Recorded investment/deal or exit category.                                |
| Transaction date (transaction.transaction\_date) | string · 0..1       | SOURCE\_DEPENDENT | FULL\_MARKET | The recorded investment, acquisition or exit event date.                  |
| Company or target (transaction.target)           | string · 0..1       | SOURCE\_DEPENDENT | FULL\_MARKET | The company associated with the transaction record.                       |
| Disclosed amount (transaction.amount)            | number · 0..1       | SOURCE\_DEPENDENT | FULL\_MARKET | Recorded transaction amount where disclosed.                              |
| Amount currency (transaction.currency)           | string · 0..1       | SOURCE\_DEPENDENT | FULL\_MARKET | Recorded currency associated with that amount.                            |
| Recorded participants (transaction.participants) | object\[] · 0..many | SOURCE\_DEPENDENT | FULL\_MARKET | Recorded investing organizations and their transaction roles.             |
| Relevant deal people (transaction.people)        | object\[] · 0..many | SOURCE\_DEPENDENT | FULL\_MARKET | People associated with an investing organization or a recorded deal role. |

### Transaction type

Field ID: `transaction.transaction_type`. Group: Transaction context.

Recorded investment/deal or exit category.

**Evidence / dates:** Use only the source or event date actually recorded; record modification is not verification.

**Limitation:** Do not infer a transaction stage or completion from a label alone.

### Transaction date

Field ID: `transaction.transaction_date`. Group: Transaction context.

The recorded investment, acquisition or exit event date.

**Evidence / dates:** Use only the source or event date actually recorded; record modification is not verification.

**Limitation:** Preserve available precision. A source publication date is not automatically the deal date.

### Company or target

Field ID: `transaction.target`. Group: Transaction context.

The company associated with the transaction record.

**Evidence / dates:** Use only the source or event date actually recorded; record modification is not verification.

**Limitation:** Related firms remain separate; no identity merge follows from a shared name.

### Disclosed amount

Field ID: `transaction.amount`. Group: Transaction context.

Recorded transaction amount where disclosed.

**Evidence / dates:** Use only the source or event date actually recorded; record modification is not verification.

**Limitation:** Native stated units; not currency-normalized valuation, complete financing terms or an audited enterprise value. Missing means unknown, not zero.

### Amount currency

Field ID: `transaction.currency`. Group: Transaction context.

Recorded currency associated with that amount.

**Evidence / dates:** Use only the source or event date actually recorded; record modification is not verification.

**Limitation:** Unknown currency remains null; no implied FX conversion.

### Recorded participants

Field ID: `transaction.participants`. Group: Participants.

Recorded investing organizations and their transaction roles.

**Evidence / dates:** Use only the source or event date actually recorded; record modification is not verification.

**Limitation:** An investing firm is not automatically an acquirer, seller or owner. Exit buyer identity is not universally exposed.

### Relevant deal people

Field ID: `transaction.people`. Group: Participants.

People associated with an investing organization or a recorded deal role.

**Evidence / dates:** Use only the source or event date actually recorded; record modification is not verification.

**Limitation:** A deal lead is not automatically an employee of the target company.

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## Relationships to other entities

A transaction can connect a target company, investing organization and relevant deal person. Preserve the recorded participant role.

Do not relabel an investor as buyer, seller or controlling owner without supporting evidence. Related fund attribution is not universal.

## Read transaction context

Fictional request brief, entities, sources, values and dates. This is a documentation example, not a live HTTP response or customer result. Missing dates remain null.

<Note>
  **Current availability:** Reviewed bounded request. **Execution:** Manual / scoped. **Automated invocation:** Not currently available. **API endpoint:** None. **MCP execution:** None.
</Note>

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Input">
    A research brief for human scope review, not an API payload.

    ```json theme={null}
    {
      "organization": "Example Automation Ltd",
      "objective": "Understand the recorded investment and participant roles",
      "intended_use": "Research preparation"
    }
    ```
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Result">
    ```json theme={null}
    {
      "task_type": "organization-research",
      "status": "supported_with_unknowns",
      "entity": null,
      "subject": {
        "entity_type": "company",
        "name": "Example Automation Ltd",
        "website": "https://example.com/fictional/company",
        "research_scope": null
      },
      "as_of": null,
      "result": {
        "summary": "A fictional investment record identifies the target, amount/currency and recorded participants.",
        "company": null,
        "criteria": [],
        "sections": [
          {
            "entity_type": "transaction",
            "data": {
              "transaction_type": "Growth investment",
              "transaction_date": "2026-09-12",
              "target": "Example Automation Ltd",
              "amount": 10000000,
              "currency": "USD",
              "participants": [
                {
                  "name": "Example Capital",
                  "entity_type": "organization",
                  "role": "Investor"
                }
              ],
              "people": [
                {
                  "name": "Morgan Lee",
                  "entity_type": "person",
                  "role": "Recorded deal lead"
                }
              ]
            }
          }
        ]
      },
      "evidence": [
        {
          "field": "result.sections.0.data.transaction_type",
          "source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
          "source_type": "public_reporting",
          "published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
          "captured_at": null,
          "observed_at": null,
          "verified_at": null,
          "basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated transaction type entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
        },
        {
          "field": "result.sections.0.data.transaction_date",
          "source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
          "source_type": "public_reporting",
          "published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
          "captured_at": null,
          "observed_at": null,
          "verified_at": null,
          "basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated transaction date entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
        },
        {
          "field": "result.sections.0.data.target",
          "source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
          "source_type": "public_reporting",
          "published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
          "captured_at": null,
          "observed_at": null,
          "verified_at": null,
          "basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated target entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
        },
        {
          "field": "result.sections.0.data.amount",
          "source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
          "source_type": "public_reporting",
          "published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
          "captured_at": null,
          "observed_at": null,
          "verified_at": null,
          "basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated amount entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
        },
        {
          "field": "result.sections.0.data.currency",
          "source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
          "source_type": "public_reporting",
          "published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
          "captured_at": null,
          "observed_at": null,
          "verified_at": null,
          "basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated currency entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
        },
        {
          "field": "result.sections.0.data.participants",
          "source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
          "source_type": "public_reporting",
          "published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
          "captured_at": null,
          "observed_at": null,
          "verified_at": null,
          "basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated participants entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
        },
        {
          "field": "result.sections.0.data.people",
          "source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
          "source_type": "public_reporting",
          "published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
          "captured_at": null,
          "observed_at": null,
          "verified_at": null,
          "basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated people entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
        }
      ],
      "unknowns": [
        "Complete financing terms",
        "Whether another participant acted as buyer or seller"
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Fictional entities, sources, values and dates; no real customer result or live execution.",
        "Source coverage and output use remain subject to the agreed purpose and rights review."
      ],
      "rights": {
        "scope": "A task purchases the agreed bounded result, not database access, unrestricted API queries, contacts export or graph redistribution. Sources and unknowns accompany results. Purchaser authorization, scope acceptance, agreement and payment are required before manual fulfillment; no automated external task service is offered.",
        "raw_graph_access": false,
        "bulk_export": false,
        "graph_redistribution": false
      }
    }
    ```
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Evidence">
    Each field path identifies the particular value supported by the source note.

    | Field path                               | Illustrated value                                                              | Source type       | Basis                                                                                                                                   |
    | ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
    | result.sections.0.data.transaction\_type | "Growth investment"                                                            | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated transaction type entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
    | result.sections.0.data.transaction\_date | "2026-09-12"                                                                   | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated transaction date entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification. |
    | result.sections.0.data.target            | "Example Automation Ltd"                                                       | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated target entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification.           |
    | result.sections.0.data.amount            | 10000000                                                                       | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated amount entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification.           |
    | result.sections.0.data.currency          | "USD"                                                                          | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated currency entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification.         |
    | result.sections.0.data.participants      | \[\{"name":"Example Capital","entity\_type":"organization","role":"Investor"}] | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated participants entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification.     |
    | result.sections.0.data.people            | \[\{"name":"Morgan Lee","entity\_type":"person","role":"Recorded deal lead"}]  | public\_reporting | Fictional source supports the illustrated people entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification.           |

    ```json theme={null}
    [
      {
        "field": "result.sections.0.data.transaction_type",
        "source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
        "source_type": "public_reporting",
        "published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
        "captured_at": null,
        "observed_at": null,
        "verified_at": null,
        "basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated transaction type entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
      },
      {
        "field": "result.sections.0.data.transaction_date",
        "source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
        "source_type": "public_reporting",
        "published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
        "captured_at": null,
        "observed_at": null,
        "verified_at": null,
        "basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated transaction date entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
      },
      {
        "field": "result.sections.0.data.target",
        "source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
        "source_type": "public_reporting",
        "published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
        "captured_at": null,
        "observed_at": null,
        "verified_at": null,
        "basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated target entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
      },
      {
        "field": "result.sections.0.data.amount",
        "source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
        "source_type": "public_reporting",
        "published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
        "captured_at": null,
        "observed_at": null,
        "verified_at": null,
        "basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated amount entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
      },
      {
        "field": "result.sections.0.data.currency",
        "source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
        "source_type": "public_reporting",
        "published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
        "captured_at": null,
        "observed_at": null,
        "verified_at": null,
        "basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated currency entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
      },
      {
        "field": "result.sections.0.data.participants",
        "source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
        "source_type": "public_reporting",
        "published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
        "captured_at": null,
        "observed_at": null,
        "verified_at": null,
        "basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated participants entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
      },
      {
        "field": "result.sections.0.data.people",
        "source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
        "source_type": "public_reporting",
        "published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
        "captured_at": null,
        "observed_at": null,
        "verified_at": null,
        "basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated people entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
      }
    ]
    ```
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

## Evidence / dates

Supporting evidence attaches to a specific field. Missing publication, capture, observation and verification dates remain unknown. Subscription views do not expose every source URL or date. [Read evidence and date semantics](/evidence-and-dates).

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## What may be unknown

Missing amount or currency remains unknown, not zero or USD. No FX-normalized valuation, complete financing terms or transaction execution is implied.

Check currency and units against the source. This reference does not normalize financial-statement values or promise currency-comparable valuations.

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## Access & rights

Access scope: FULL\_MARKET. Field descriptions are public; premium records remain permissioned.

A task purchases the agreed bounded result, not database access, unrestricted API queries, contacts export or graph redistribution. Sources and unknowns accompany results. Purchaser authorization, scope acceptance, agreement and payment are required before manual fulfillment; no automated external task service is offered.

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## Related tasks

* [Research template](/tasks/transaction-context-research)
* [Entity JSON Schema](https://altss.com/schemas/transaction.json)
* [Access and rights](/access-and-rights)

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