Due diligence
The checks an investor, buyer or lender runs on a company, deal or counterparty before committing.
What it means
Due diligence is the work done before a deal closes or a major decision is made. Investors review financials, customer contracts, legal exposure, management backgrounds and market position. The goal is to find problems before money moves, not after.
AI tools speed up the reading. They can summarize filings, pull figures from many documents, and flag terms that differ across contracts. They do not replace the professional who signs off. Every figure in a diligence memo should trace to a document the team can open, and the memo should say what the team could not confirm. Teams that write the memo early, and update it as documents arrive, catch gaps before they become surprises in a negotiation. Keep the memo short enough that a partner will read it, and link every point to its source file.
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