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AI and M&A Due Diligence: Surviving 4,000 Files in a Data Room
AI can index and surface answers across a data room; the lawyer-review of red-flag findings stays human.
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- 1The premise
- 2due diligence
- 3data room
- 4M&A
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Section 1
The premise
A target company opened a 4,000-file VDR with three weeks to LOI signing. Reading every file is impossible. AI can index, summarize, and answer questions across the corpus — but every red flag needs a human pulling the actual file.
What AI does well here
- Build a searchable index of the data room with topic tags.
- Answer specific questions ('Show me all change-of-control provisions') with file citations.
- Compare contracts of the same type for outlier terms.
- Draft the diligence-issues list grouped by workstream.
What AI cannot do
- Replace privileged legal review of red-flag findings.
- Catch what's missing from the data room (the absent file is often the issue).
- Decide if a finding kills the deal — that's the principals.
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