DiligenceIQ — a product of AI Lighthouse Partners ← AI Lighthouse Partners
Agentic Deal Diligence Platform Human-led · AI-executed

Human-led,
AI-executed
deal due diligence.

DiligenceIQ analyses data room documents, market research and key deal questions to produce source-backed findings, red flags and IC-ready outputs in one workflow.

It helps deal teams manage more deals in parallel, improve consistency and give senior teams more time for judgement, challenge and client advice.

Built for private equity, corporate M&A and transaction advisory teams.

One
workflow, not a set of tools
Six+
diligence workstreams
Human
judgment stays in control
DiligenceIQ  ·  Project Meridian  ·  Deal dashboard Illustrative deal data
Project Meridian
Data room, external research and deal questions in one controlled workflow.
Workstreams active
9
of 14 available
Documents ingested
318
data room + management info
Findings drafted
64
each linked to source
Awaiting review
11
held for human sign-off
Workflow — current phase
Deal context & objectivesFramingTransaction rationale, investment thesis and key deal questions.Complete
Scope & methodologyFramingWorkstreams selected, evidence sources and depth agreed with the deal team.Complete
Evidence ingestionIngestData room, management information and approved external research.Complete
Workstream analysisInvestigateNine workstreams running in parallel against the agreed deal questions.Running
Challenge & gap reviewChallengeInconsistencies, evidence gaps and management questions.Queued
Draft outputsDecideIC-ready drafts released only after human review.Queued

Interface shown with illustrative data. No client or transaction information is used in these examples.

Built for Private EquityCorporate M&ATransaction Advisory Investment TeamsDeal TeamsOperating Partners Investment Committees
The Starting Point A capacity problem

Deal diligence was built for a slower market.

Deal timelines are becoming shorter while data rooms, external information and investment committee expectations continue to grow. Deal teams are expected to analyse more evidence, test more questions and produce better-supported conclusions without proportionally increasing headcount.

The result is a capacity problem. Analysts spend too much time finding, reading, reconciling and drafting information, while senior professionals receive the synthesis too late to challenge the deal properly.

01

More information

Data rooms, management information and external sources continue to increase in volume and complexity.

02

Less time

Competitive deal processes require teams to form and test an investment view more quickly.

03

Inconsistent execution

The depth, quality and structure of analysis can vary across workstreams, teams and transactions.

04

Senior capacity constraints

Experienced professionals spend too much time reviewing material and too little time applying judgment, challenge and client advice.

The Platform DiligenceIQ · Agentic Deal Diligence
One workflow

One platform for evidence-backed deal diligence.

DiligenceIQ brings deal documents, market research and key deal questions into a single controlled workflow. Specialist AI agents analyse information across defined diligence workstreams and produce source-backed findings, potential red flags, open questions and draft IC-ready outputs.

The deal team remains in control throughout: setting the scope, defining the questions, reviewing evidence, challenging conclusions and owning the final recommendation.

The Workflow Inputs · workflow · outputs

One connected workflow — not a collection of AI tools.

Inputs

What goes in

  • Data room documents
  • Financial and operating information
  • Market research
  • Publicly available information
  • Management responses
  • The deal thesis
  • Investment committee questions
  • Adviser knowledge and context
DiligenceIQ

The workflow

  • Ingest
  • Structure
  • Analyse
  • Challenge
  • Trace
  • Draft

Directed by the deal team at every stage. New documents and management responses can be added at any point and the relevant analysis re-run.

Outputs

What comes out

  • Source-backed findings
  • Potential red flags
  • Evidence gaps
  • Open deal questions
  • Management question lists
  • Workstream summaries
  • Risk and opportunity views
  • IC-ready draft outputs
  • Supporting evidence and appendices
The Operating Model Where the boundary sits

Humans lead the diligence. AI executes the workflow.

DiligenceIQ does not remove human responsibility from the deal process. It separates the work that requires professional judgment from the work that can be executed, repeated and scaled through AI.

Human-led

The deal team.

Scope, interpretation, challenge and the final recommendation.

  1. 01Define the investment thesis.
  2. 02Set the diligence scope.
  3. 03Identify key deal questions.
  4. 04Select and prioritise workstreams.
  5. 05Add transaction and sector context.
  6. 06Challenge findings and assumptions.
  7. 07Review material evidence.
  8. 08Approve outputs.
  9. 09Own the final recommendation.
The Boundary
AI-executed

DiligenceIQ.

Execution, repetition and scale, under human direction.

  1. 01Ingest and organise deal documents.
  2. 02Connect information across sources.
  3. 03Analyse defined diligence questions.
  4. 04Run specialist workstreams in parallel.
  5. 05Identify inconsistencies and information gaps.
  6. 06Surface potential red flags.
  7. 07Produce source-linked findings.
  8. 08Draft management questions.
  9. 09Generate IC-ready outputs for review.
  10. 10Re-run analysis when new information arrives.
Workstreams Configured around the deal

Configure the platform around the deal.

Each transaction requires a different combination of questions, evidence and specialist analysis. DiligenceIQ allows the deal team to activate the workstreams relevant to the transaction and adapt them as the investment thesis develops.

01 · Commercial & market

Market and customer evidence

Market size and growthCompetitive position Customer behaviourPricing Revenue qualityGrowth opportunities
02 · Financial & value

Trends, drivers and sensitivities

Financial trend analysisMargin and profitability Cash flowWorking capital Forecast assumptionsValuation sensitivities

Supports analysis. It does not replace formal financial due diligence or an independent valuation where one is required.

03 · Operational

How the business runs

Operating modelProcess maturity ScalabilitySupply chain ProcurementDelivery capability
04 · Technology & product

What the business is built on

Technology architectureProduct capability Technical debtCyber and data risks AI capability and readinessTechnology scalability
05 · Management & organisation

Who has to deliver the plan

Leadership capabilityOrganisation structure Talent dependenciesGovernance Execution capacity
06 · Risk & compliance

What could stop the deal

Regulatory exposureLegal and compliance questions ESG considerationsKey dependencies Red flags and deal-breakers

DiligenceIQ does not replace legal, tax, regulatory, cyber or other specialist due diligence, or the qualified professionals who perform it. It enables and accelerates their work by structuring the evidence and surfacing the questions earlier.

The Product Illustrative interface

Where the evidence is — and where it is not.

Requirements are mapped against the evidence base as the deal runs, so gaps become management questions and research tasks early rather than late.

DiligenceIQ  ·  Project Meridian  ·  Evidence coverage & gap analysis Illustrative deal data
Evidence coverage & gap analysis
Every diligence requirement plotted by where its evidence can be found — so the team knows what is already in the room, what needs requesting from management, and what has to be researched.
0Company & Financials 0Market Dynamics 4Decision-Making 4Customer Feedback 5Competitive Positioning 2Growth Opportunities Financial history (revenue / profit) Segment / go-to-market mix Unit economics / take rate / margin Customer KPIs (counts, retention, churn) Product roadmap (labelled as plans) M&A / acquisition track record Market size (TAM / SAM / served) Market growth drivers Downturn / recession resilience Value-added / adjacent opportunity Switching triggers & lifecycle Decision process & stakeholders Purchase criteria & weights Switching complexity / friction Satisfaction / NPS Strengths — customer evidence Churn triggers (beyond price) Development areas — customer evidence Price benchmarking Competitor landscape / archetypes Criteria performance vs archetypes Feature / module benchmarking NPS by provider type Competitor pain-point synthesis Willingness to pay / full-suite demand Growth-lever agenda Contestable / new-customer pool Partner / channel whitespace Partner adoption willingness Pricing optimization / elasticity Financial history (revenue / profit) Segment / go-to-market mix Unit economics / take rate / margin Customer KPIs (counts, retention, churn) Product roadmap (labelled as plans) M&A / acquisition track record Market size (TAM / SAM / served) Market growth drivers Downturn / recession resilience Value-added / adjacent opportunity Switching triggers & lifecycle Decision process & stakeholders Purchase criteria & weights Switching complexity / friction Satisfaction / NPS Strengths — customer evidence Churn triggers (beyond price) Development areas — customer evidence Price benchmarking Competitor landscape / archetypes Criteria performance vs archetypes Feature / module benchmarking NPS by provider type Competitor pain-point synthesis Willingness to pay / full-suite demand Growth-lever agenda Contestable / new-customer pool Partner / channel whitespace Partner adoption willingness Pricing optimization / elasticity Data room
Select a node

Click a requirement in the map to see why it matters and how to close the gap. Node size reflects its weight in the diligence.

Legend
In data room
Partial
Externally sourceable
Request from management
Primary research
Documents (33)
01_Executive_Summary.pdf 02_Corporate_Overview.pdf 03_Investment_Thesis.pdf 04_Commercial_Due_Diligence.pdf 05_Financial_Due_Diligence.pdf 06_Legal_Due_Diligence.pdf 07_Operational_Due_Diligence.pdf 08_Technical_Due_Diligence.pdf 09_ESG_Due_Diligence.pdf 10_HR_Organisational_Due_Diligence.pdf
Open items raised for the deal team
Customer concentrationCommercialTop-10 revenue share inconsistent between the CIM and the FY management accounts.Contradiction
Working capitalFinancialSeasonality assumption unsupported by the periods provided.Evidence gap
Key-person dependencyManagementTwo named individuals referenced across product, sales and delivery.Flag
Regulatory exposureRiskPending licence renewal in one operating geography — question drafted for management.Question drafted
DiligenceIQ  ·  Project Meridian  ·  Outputs Illustrative deal data
Draft outputs
Generated from the deal evidence base and released only after human review.
Draft readyDOC
IC memo
Document
Investment committee memorandum — findings, risks, open questions and areas requiring judgment.
Draft readyDECK
Diligence deck
Slide deck
Provenance-tracked slides drawn from the data room and approved external research.
Draft readyDOC
Management questions
Document
Consolidated question list generated from contradictions and evidence gaps.
In reviewDOC
Workstream summaries
Document
One summary per active workstream, each finding linked to its supporting source.
In reviewDASH
Risk & opportunity view
Dashboard
Materiality-ranked flags with the underlying evidence attached.
Not startedDOC
Evidence appendix
Document
What was read, what was inferred, and what remains unevidenced.

Screens are representative of the DiligenceIQ interface and use illustrative data throughout. All outputs are drafts for human review.

The Outcome What changes for the team

Capacity and consistency, not just faster research.

01

More capacity

Run document analysis and specialist workstreams in parallel, helping teams support more active transactions.

02

Greater consistency

Apply a structured approach to deal questions, evidence, findings and outputs across every engagement.

03

Stronger traceability

Connect material findings and red flags back to the supporting source documents.

04

More time for judgment

Reduce manual reading, searching and drafting so senior professionals can focus on interpretation, challenge and client advice.

Who It Is For Three buying centres

Same platform. Different problem to solve.

01 · Private equity & investment teams

Analyse more, across more deals

Analyse more information across more active deals without increasing the diligence burden on senior investment professionals.

Key outcomesFaster first view of a target · more consistent deal analysis · better-supported IC discussions · more time for thesis development and challenge.

02 · Corporate M&A teams

A repeatable diligence capability

Create a repeatable diligence capability across transactions, geographies and business units.

Key outcomesStandardised diligence questions · greater continuity between diligence and integration · improved evidence management · stronger internal governance.

03 · Transaction advisory firms

Capacity without diluting the bench

Increase deal capacity and execution consistency while keeping senior advisers focused on judgment, challenge and client advice.

Key outcomesMore concurrent engagements · reusable firm methodologies · consistent workstream execution · faster production of evidence-backed outputs · more time for senior client interaction.

For advisory firms, DiligenceIQ is an enabler rather than a substitute. The methodology, the client relationship and the professional opinion remain the firm's.

Security & Deployment Confidential deal environments

Built for confidential deal environments.

A platform that touches a live data room has to answer three questions before it answers any others: where did this finding come from, who approved it, and what happens to our data.

Data

How deal information is handled

Secure document ingestion, encryption in transit and at rest, client data isolation, defined retention and deletion, and hosting and data-residency options agreed at onboarding.

Control

Who can reach what

User and role-based access, audit trails across the workflow, and NDA and data-processing agreements as part of engagement.

Evidence

Why the output can be relied on

Source traceability from finding back to document, human approval before any output is used, and client data not used to train shared models.

Reference Common questions

Questions deal teams ask first.

A human-led, AI-executed platform for deal due diligence. It analyses data room documents, market research and key deal questions to produce source-backed findings, red flags and IC-ready outputs in one workflow.

No. Commercial diligence is one of the workstreams that DiligenceIQ can support. The platform is designed around the broader deal diligence process and can bring together commercial, financial, operational, technology, management, risk and other specialist analyses in one workflow. The precise scope is configured around the requirements of each transaction.

Commercial and market, customer and revenue, financial and valuation analysis, operational, technology and product, management and organisation, and regulatory, ESG and risk — alongside deal thesis development and investment committee preparation. Workstreams are activated per transaction.

No. It is designed to enable advisers and internal teams, not substitute for them. The methodology, the professional opinion and the client relationship remain with the firm or the deal team.

No. It supports analysis and structures the evidence, but it does not replace formal financial, legal, tax, regulatory, cyber or other specialist due diligence, or an independent valuation where one is required.

The team sets the transaction context and investment thesis, defines the key deal questions, and activates the workstreams relevant to the deal. Scope can be adjusted at any point as the thesis develops.

Yes. Deal questions, workstream structure and output templates can be aligned to your existing diligence playbook and IC format. Your methodology remains yours.

Material findings are linked back to the supporting source — document, page, table or extract — wherever it is available. Where evidence is partial, contradictory or absent, that is recorded as a gap or an open question rather than presented as a conclusion.

Outputs are produced as drafts. Nothing is released into IC materials without a named reviewer from the deal team approving it. Interpretation, challenge and the final recommendation remain human responsibilities.

Data room documents, management information, financial and operating reports, and approved external research across common document and spreadsheet formats. Document handling is confirmed as part of technical onboarding.

Yes. New documents, questions and management responses can be added throughout the process, and the relevant analysis re-run so the view stays current.

Through secure ingestion, encryption in transit and at rest, client data isolation, role-based access, audit trails and defined retention and deletion. Hosting, data residency and deployment options are agreed at onboarding and covered by NDA and data-processing agreements.

No. Client data is not used to train shared models.

Yes. Advisory firms use it to increase deal capacity and execution consistency while keeping senior advisers focused on judgment, challenge and client advice. Firm methodologies can be encoded and reused across engagements.

Yes, subject to the usual onboarding, security review and approval. Most firms begin with one workstream on one live transaction before widening scope.

Licensing is based on users, workload and support requirements, with deployment options confirmed during technical review. The clearest starting point is a demo, followed by a scoped pilot on a live or recent transaction.

Next step

Request a demo.

See how DiligenceIQ can be configured around your deal process, sector and diligence methodology. Partner-led, around 30 minutes.