How to track mergers and acquisitions in ChatGPT

Check where any deal stands, what it's worth and when it's expected to close, without relying on articles written the day it was announced. Add the Firecrawl plugin to track mergers and acquisitions in ChatGPT through Firecrawl Alexandria and Benzinga's M&A calendar.

• Checking whether a pending deal has closed, and on what terms.
• Listing every merger or acquisition a company has been part of, as buyer or target.
• Following pending deals expected to close this quarter.

Plugin: the Firecrawl plugin. Hooks ChatGPT up to Firecrawl Alexandria. Deal lookups are charged to your Firecrawl account.

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Paste this into ChatGPT and name the deals you care about:

@firecrawl Use Benzinga's M&A calendar through Firecrawl Alexandria to
check on deals involving CSCO from the past two years. Show me the price of
each tool before you run it.
 
Give me a short summary:
- Every deal where Cisco was the acquirer or the target, with the other
  party, deal size, payment type and status.
- For completed deals, the closing date. For pending ones, the expected
  closing date.
- The two most recent news stories about the largest pending deal, if any.
 
Report what the records say and flag anything that looks out of date.

• Install Firecrawl. Find the plugin in ChatGPT's directory, or use the button below.
• Sign in with your Firecrawl account. Deal lookups run on it. Create one if you don't have it.
• Accept Benzinga's terms on first use. Team accounts may need an admin to accept them.

Tracking a deal means knowing its status today, and on its own ChatGPT has only training data with a cutoff date and whatever its web search turns up. That causes six problems.

1. Stale by default. Without a tool such as search, ChatGPT's answers don't include events after its training cutoff (OpenAI). Any deal announced, amended or closed since then is missing.
2. Deals keep moving. After a merger filing, the parties must wait 30 days (15 for a cash tender offer or a bankruptcy) before closing, unless the agencies end the wait early. If the agency sends a Second Request for more information, the deal can't close until the companies comply and a second waiting period passes (FTC). Articles written at announcement aren't necessarily updated through any of this.
3. Deals get called off. In December 2025, Aya Healthcare terminated its proposed acquisition of Cross Country Healthcare, according to the FTC. A search can surface coverage of an announcement without the later news that the deal ended.
4. Terms are scattered. Price, payment type and expected closing date can be spread across different articles. The merger agreement itself is reported on Form 8-K under Item 1.01 (SEC), which a general web search may not surface.
5. Private and small deals. Data on private-company deals is limited, and much of the deal data that exists sits in subscription databases such as Capital IQ, PitchBook and Mergermarket (Library of Congress). ChatGPT's search can't reach those, so small and private deals are easy to miss.
6. Errors in the numbers. A deal summary can come back with a date or fact that's simply wrong, delivered confidently (OpenAI), and a 2024 finance review found ChatGPT slips on numerical data. Deal values, exchange ratios and per-share prices are easy places for that to happen.

Following deals in ChatGPT involves three pieces:

• Firecrawl Alexandria: connects AI agents straight to data sources. It includes more than 100 official providers, paid under agreement whenever their data is pulled, along with Firecrawl's web index and its specialist indexes (Research, Developer and Government). A Firecrawl evaluation over 845 tasks kept the model and prompts constant, and agents that could call Firecrawl Alexandria produced answers judged 21% better than agents using only built-in web tools.
• Status and terms: ChatGPT goes to Benzinga's M&A calendar for where each deal stands and what it's worth, filtered by ticker whether the company is buying or being bought.
• The story around it: Benzinga's news search adds the coverage, so you can see why a deal stalled or changed.

Point the prompt at the deals you follow. For one deal you're waiting on:

@firecrawl Is the Hewlett Packard Enterprise acquisition of Juniper Networks
completed? Give me the deal size, payment type and closing date, plus the
latest news story about it.

For a sector pipeline:

@firecrawl Show pending acquisitions expected to close this quarter, sorted
by expected closing date, only the notable ones. Include acquirer, target,
size and payment type in a table.

Say which deals or companies, the status you care about and the fields you need, and the answer comes back as a short table.

See every deal a company is part of

@firecrawl List every merger or acquisition involving CSCO in the past two
years, whether Cisco is the acquirer or the target, with status and deal
size.

Get alerts when new deals are reported

@firecrawl Monitor news about new acquisitions in the semiconductor industry
every 2 hours and post new deals to my #deals Slack channel.

This week's announcements

@firecrawl Which acquisitions were announced this week, and at what price?

Check tools and prices first

@firecrawl Which tools have merger and acquisition data? List each one with
its price per call.

Looking through Firecrawl Alexandria and reading tool prices is free, and credits are charged only when ChatGPT runs a tool. They come out of your Firecrawl account; see plans and credits.

The reply tells you which tool was used and the credits it cost.

• How to get real-time stock news in ChatGPT: the full walkthrough of Benzinga's newswire.
• How to track analyst upgrades and downgrades in ChatGPT: how analysts moved on the acquirer or the target after a deal was announced.
• The full catalog: the Firecrawl Alexandria catalog lists 100+ providers and what each one can do.

• Deals Benzinga tracks. The calendar covers the deals Benzinga records, so small private deals may not appear.
• Withdrawn records. Benzinga sometimes removes a deal record it published earlier, so ask again before relying on an older answer.
• No investment advice. ChatGPT pulls the published deal data and leaves the decision to you.