Diligent, an AI-driven GRC SaaS provider focused on helping organisations improve oversight, compliance and risk management, has unveiled a new solution called AuditAI.
The product was introduced at The Institute of Internal Auditors GAM: Great Audit Minds 2026 conference and forms part of the company’s broader push to embed artificial intelligence into audit and governance workflows.
The launch comes as internal audit teams face increasing pressure to expand coverage, respond to emerging risks faster and deliver clearer reporting to boards and executives. Organisations are also looking for ways to reduce administrative burdens and move away from manual, sample-based auditing approaches. Diligent developed AuditAI to help audit functions shift from reactive processes to proactive risk oversight while enabling continuous, risk-aligned assurance.
Diligent provides software solutions designed to support governance, risk, audit and compliance functions across enterprises. Its technology is widely used by boards, executives and internal audit teams to manage regulatory obligations, strengthen oversight and streamline reporting. The company’s platform integrates risk intelligence, compliance tools and governance capabilities into a single ecosystem designed to help organisations identify and manage operational and regulatory risks more effectively.
AuditAI is designed to automate many of the most time-consuming stages of the audit lifecycle. These include audit planning, managing requests for information and handling evidence collection. By automating these processes, the system enables audit teams to move away from labour-intensive coordination and manual testing methods toward continuous monitoring aligned with organisational risk priorities. According to the company, early adopters have cut time spent on audit administration by approximately 70%, reducing audit cycles from roughly 120 hours of manual coordination to about 35 hours.
The product incorporates a range of agentic AI capabilities aimed at modernising how audit teams plan, execute and report their work. Its AI planning and control intelligence functionality can suggest audit names, relevant entities and assessment factors based on a company’s risk profile, while also recommending controls to address regulatory gaps and highlighting regulatory changes that may impact existing processes. The platform’s contextual AI engine analyses relationships between risks, controls, audits and findings across the Diligent One Platform, enabling it to answer complex queries with insight spanning risk identification through to remediation and board reporting.
Another key feature is AI-generated request and evidence management. The system can automatically generate context-aware requests for documentation and evidence based on audit scope, risk context, control requirements and historical data. These requests are then routed, tracked and followed up within the system, reducing the need for email chains and spreadsheet-based coordination. The platform also includes structured workflows, approval mechanisms and traceability to ensure auditors remain in control of key decisions while maintaining defensible records across audit, risk and compliance activities.
AuditAI is also designed to work alongside existing Diligent tools, including ACL AI and Smart Prep 360 in Diligent Boards. Through these integrations, the company aims to provide general counsels, corporate secretaries and board members with clearer and more timely insights into organisational risks, offering a more forward-looking view of potential issues and how they are being addressed.
Diligent general manager, risk & audit Scott Bridgen said, “Internal audit leaders are being asked to expand coverage, drive greater impact and provide contextual assurance while explaining risk in plain language to the board, all without adding headcount. AuditAI transforms risk signals and audit data from external sources into prioritized audit actions and converts those insights into clear, board-ready insights in Diligent Boards. Now, audit teams can spend less time chasing evidence and more time advising the business, while boards get a real-time, transparent view of how risks are being managed.”
Crown Castle internal audit manager Corey Lowry said, “Since deploying AuditAI, we’ve cut the time our managers spend chasing evidence by more than half and eliminated countless email chains and spreadsheets. Our audit program is far more efficient and responsive. We’re able to adapt plans as new risks emerge and focus our time on higher-value analysis instead of administrative follow-up.”
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