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M&A due diligence stack

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A legal AI stack for diligence-heavy work: document review, contract extraction, secure sharing, AI-assisted analysis, and issue spotting.

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What this is

This stack is for diligence where the issue is not one agreement, but hundreds or thousands. It combines extraction, analysis, legal AI assistance, and controlled sharing.

When to pick it

  • The team needs to review many contracts under time pressure.
  • Clause extraction and exception spotting matter.
  • External sharing needs control and visibility.

In this stack

6 tools
Kira Systems

Contract analysis AI has revolutionized M&A due diligence and legal document review. Before tools like Kira Systems emerged in 2010, associates manually reviewed contracts for weeks. Kira's machine learning technology automated this, reducing review time from weeks to days.

Used here for: AI contract review and clause extraction for diligence sets and contract populations.

Luminance

"Legal-Grade" goes beyond marketing. Luminance's LLM was trained on 150 million legal documents, learning to recognize clause patterns and detect risks.

Used here for: Document analysis and anomaly detection for legal review at diligence scale.

Harvey AI

Harvey AI is the largest venture capital investment in legal AI, securing $1.02 billion in funding and an $8 billion valuation. Harvey serves 50 of the Am Law 100 firms, transitioning quickly from promise to practical deployment.

Used here for: Legal AI assistant for research, drafting, summarization, and review support.

LegalFly

LEGALFLY offers automatic document anonymization, no configuration is needed. Upon upload, names, addresses, and financial details are removed, preserving legal substance while ensuring privacy.

Used here for: AI legal workspace for reviewing, drafting, and summarizing sensitive documents.

Evisort

In 2017, a team including a Harvard Law fellow and MIT PhD students founded Evisort to address contract review challenges with academic rigor. They recognized contracts as complex legal instruments with significant consequences, which influenced Evisort’s specialized development.

Used here for: Contract intelligence layer for extracting structured terms from large agreement sets.

DocSend

Secure document sharing and analytics for sending decks, legal packets, diligence materials, and sensitive documents with access controls and viewing insights.

Used here for: Controlled sharing of diligence decks and sensitive legal packets when a lightweight external link is enough.

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