At Elevate 2026, we made a promise: agentic AI isn't a future state for governance, risk, and compliance professionals. It's here, it's built for your world, and it's ready to work.
Over two packed days in Atlanta, Diligent CEO, Brian Stafford, and product leaders took the stage to announce five agentic AI innovations that represent a fundamental shift in how GRC work gets done.
Here's a look at what we launched, why it matters, and how you can get involved now.
The boardroom has always been a high-stakes environment. But the pressure on directors — to navigate complex materials, engage across specialized topics, and demonstrate active oversight — keeps rising, often without the time or expertise to match.
At Elevate, our CEO Brian introduced the first AI agent purpose-built for the board governance: AI Board Member.
Picture something that has read every word of your board papers for the last ten years. Every document. Every deck. Something that knows your market segments, your geographies, your investment history, and your risk track record — and can surface all of it in seconds, in a meeting, when it matters most.
AI Board Member doesn't replace your directors. It makes every one of them sharper. With on-demand expert profiles — Activist Investor, Cyber, Sustainability, Compensation, and more — proactive risk intelligence, scenario simulation, and an auditable record of every query and action taken, it closes the expertise gap that has long defined boardroom risk.
And it works entirely within the permissions your organization has already established. No configuration. No risk of information crossing the wrong boundaries.
Be among the first to use it. The Early Adopter Program is open now — individual directors can sign up for 1:1 access before general availability this summer.
👉 Join the AI Board Member Early Adopter Program
Here's a number worth sitting with: most risk teams spend around 85% of their reporting time on assembly — exporting data from your risk register reconciling spreadsheets, rebuilding the same committee pack from scratch each quarter. That leaves roughly 15% for the analysis and insight that's actually their job.
Diligent’s AI Reporting for Enterprise Risk Management is built to change that ratio entirely.
Working directly from your live risk register and controls data, it lets you generate board-ready reports through natural language prompts and pre-configured templates. No BI expertise. No manual formatting. No rebuilding spreadsheets or slides from scratch. Ask "which risks moved outside appetite since last quarter?" and it surfaces the answer with visuals. Generate an appetite-aligned heatmap, a trend analysis, and a full board or committee pack (including presentation notes, directly aligned to content) — then store it directly back in ERM so your system of record and your risk story stay connected.
What used to take days of reconciliation and formatting now takes minutes.
Ready to stop building slides and start telling the risk story? Join the early adopter program and be among the first to experience AI-powered ERM reporting.
👉 Join the AI Reporting Early Adopter Program
Vendor due diligence is one of the most time-consuming, most friction-filled parts of GRC. Assessments get ignored, documents pile up, and risk profiles are built manually from partial information — often months out of date.
At Elevate, we announced our acquisition of 3rdRisk and introduced the world to Lexi: an AI agent that does the opposite of everything you've come to expect from that process.
Lexi reads vendor documents, completes assessments on their behalf, and generates rich third-party risk profiles — drawing on both submitted data and publicly available information like country risk intelligence and geopolitical signals. Vendors upload a document. Lexi analyzes it, fills out the assessment, and highlights exactly what you need to care about in a clean, shareable report.
The result? Up to 80% reduction in manual third-party work — with real-time, continuously monitored intelligence that tells you not just what the risk is, but what to do next.
See it for yourself. Request a demo and discover what AI-native third-party risk management actually looks like in practice.
In fiscal year 2024, the SEC recovered a record-breaking $8.2 billion — largely from governance and compliance failures. Not high-profile scandals. Small missteps. Transactions overlooked. Flags that never got escalated. Policies disconnected from the people and entities they were meant to govern.
Connected Compliance is our new AI layer built to make sure that doesn't happen in your organization.
By bringing together signals across speak-up, conflicts of interest, training, policies, sanctions screening, and entity data, Connected Compliance unifies your compliance ecosystem into a single source of truth — and turns it into a system of intelligence. When an employee raises a concern, it immediately maps the entity, jurisdiction, relevant policies, training associations, and watchlist exposure — surfacing the full picture in minutes instead of weeks.
Be among the first. Join the Connected Compliance Early Adopter Program and help shape what the next generation of compliance intelligence looks like.
👉 Join the Connected Compliance Early Adopter Program
Entity management has long been treated as a back-office function. The numbers from Elevate told a very different story.
Since launching AI capabilities in Diligent Entities in 2025, we've already:
That's over a million hours returned to legal, compliance, and finance teams. Hours previously spent reading documents, tracking down data, and answering routine questions that had no business landing in a lawyer's inbox.
But this isn't just about efficiency gains on existing workflows. It's about turning entity management from a system of record into a system of action. AI-powered subsidiary board packs. Automated board approvals that flow between Entities and Boards seamlessly. Continuous health checks that compare your internal data to public registries and flag discrepancies before regulators do.
Ready to see what AI-enhanced entity management can do? Request a demo and discover how Diligent Entities can transform your corporate governance operations.
👉 Request a Diligent Entities Demo
Every one of these innovations shares the same belief: GRC professionals shouldn't be spending their expertise on assembly, coordination, and chasing. You should be spending it on judgment, strategy, and governance.
The AI isn't here to replace your teams. It's here to make your teams — and your boards — the most effective they've ever been.
Elevate 2026 was just the announcement. The real work starts now.
Interested in getting access to these innovations? Sign up for our early adopter programs or request a product demo using the links above.
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