COMPARE | PLAUSITY AND MANUAL DD

Manual due diligence, without the manual part.

Due diligence still runs on folders, spreadsheets and late-night reading. Plausity keeps your experts and your standards, and takes over the reading, cross-checking and first drafts.

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Ring binders and printed reports on a desk
Folders and email→Read and tag→Cross-check→Draft→Review and sign-off
WHAT CHANGES

Same judgement, less searching.

The manual process is slow where it is repetitive: finding, reading, comparing and formatting. Plausity handles those steps in one workspace and leaves decisions, negotiation and sign-off with your team.

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73%
of senior executives at US investment banks expect M&A due diligence to become more complex over the next 12 to 24 months (150 respondents, surveyed in Q4 2025).

Source: SRS Acquiom and Mergermarket, Best Practices in M&A Due Diligence 2026

41%
of dealmakers surveyed name completing due diligence as a top obstacle to closing deals.

Source: KPMG, 2025 M&A Deal Market Study (February 2025)

Reading

Instead of a team reading every document, Plausity processes the data room and returns structured findings by workstream.

AI Analysis Engine
Uploading internal documents and adding external sources in Plausity

Cross-checking

Instead of comparing documents by hand, inconsistencies and evidence gaps are flagged for review.

Findings & Risk IntelligenceEvidence Gap Detection
Plausity checklist mapping data room documents to the information each workstream needs

Drafting

Instead of copying findings into slides, the IC memo and reports are drafted with their sources.

IC MemoReports & Deliverables
Report Draft
Section 4.2
Quality of Earnings Analysis
The target's reported EBITDA of €8.1M includes several non-recurring items totalling €1.4M. After normalisation adjustments, the sustainable EBITDA is estimated at €6.7M, implying an adjusted margin of 15.8%.3
Management has confirmed that restructuring costs of €0.8M are one-time in nature and relate to the consolidation of the Munich office.7

Staying in control

Every step is reviewable, and people approve what leaves the workspace.

Collaboration & Workflow
Approval Workflow
Report Status
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Where the work goes.

Manual DD
With Plausity
Getting started
Manual DDDocuments are downloaded, sorted and indexed by hand.
With PlausityThe data room is connected, classified and structured. New uploads are processed as they arrive.
Reading
Manual DDAnalysts open and summarise document after document.
With PlausityDocuments are analysed by workstream and returned as structured findings.
Prioritising
Manual DDIssues are ranked by whoever reviews them, often late.
With PlausityFindings are scored for severity and materiality, with red flag alerts.
Missing evidence
Manual DDGaps often show up when someone looks for a document that is not there.
With PlausityEvidence Gap Detection flags missing or insufficient evidence for follow-up.
Answering questions
Manual DDSomeone searches the folders and the report again.
With PlausityThe AI Q&A Assistant answers across the findings, with page and paragraph.
Drafting
Manual DDFindings are retyped into memos and slides.
With PlausityThe IC memo and reports are drafted from the findings, in your format.
Traceability
Manual DDThe source behind a number can get lost in email and spreadsheets.
With PlausityEvery finding links to its source document, page and paragraph.
Decisions
Manual DDWith your team.
With PlausityWith your team.

Frequently asked questions

It replaces the mechanical part: reading, cross-checking, formatting and first drafts. Expert review, judgement and sign-off stay with your team.

Yes. Every finding links to the source document, page and paragraph, and every action is logged.

Plausity connects to leading VDR providers and reads PDFs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images and scanned documents.

No. It structures the diligence and drafts the memo. The recommendation and the decision stay with your team.

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