Governance, risk, and compliance SaaS solutions provider Diligent has unveiled AI Board Member, a secure AI assistant for directors, and a coordinated network of agents embedded across the Diligent One Platform.
Diligent’s agentic AI capabilities were showcased this week during Elevate 2026, the company’s flagship annual conference for governance, audit, risk and compliance professionals, with general availability expected in the fall.
Accessible through a single command center, agents automate multistep workflows across GRC and third-party management, giving organizations the impact of a “GRC manager” without adding headcount.
“AI supercharges teams that embrace it, and boards are no exception,” Brian Stafford, president and CEO of Diligent, said in a statement on April 23. “With AI Board Member and a network of autonomous agents woven through the Diligent One Platform, we’re giving the C-suite and GRC leaders a secure, governed digital workforce that senses risk faster than traditional governance can keep up, keeps every step auditable, and lets them focus on the judgement only they can provide.”
Diligent’s autonomous agent network allows practitioners and leaders to direct persona-specific agents that autonomously plan, execute, and audit end-to-end workflows across GRC and audit, with human judgement approving every decision. Underneath, a connected data and collaboration model keeps everything in sync—from the risk register and entity records to enterprise resource planning and human resources systems—so updates flow through to the board without manual rework, Diligent says.
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AI Board Member acts as a secure AI assistant for directors, instantly recalling board materials, industry news, public research, and other trusted sources, as well as providing on-demand specialist perspectives.
- Strengthens oversight and skills for the board by giving directors organization-specific guidance on AI, cyber, risk, audit, and more—grounded in their own materials, industry trends, and peer benchmarks—all within enterprise-grade security and sharing controls.
- Moves boards from reactive to ready with instant recall of relevant board information and deep market context that helps directors explore scenarios and implications before they ever step into the room.
- Acts as a boardroom assistant by joining board, committee, and leadership meetings to take minutes, assign action items, and proactively follow up on actions to ensure preparation happens ahead of the next meeting.
The Subsidiary Governance Agent helps legal and governance teams manage complex entity structures at scale by automating the mechanics of subsidiary board operations and officer appointments.
- Automates subsidiary governance at scale by preparing board packs, minutes, approvals, and filings across dozens or hundreds of entities and jurisdictions, ensuring consistent, auditable governance.
- Orchestrates director and officer appointment changes into a review step, not a data entry task, triggering notifications, identifying required filings, and keeping board and committee compositions current and compliant.
- Continuously monitors and identifies compliance gaps by surfacing missing sections, outdated content, and jurisdiction-specific requirements, then proposing appropriate changes in bulk as regulations, events, or cross-entity changes occur.
The Enterprise Risk Governance Agent shifts organizations from reactive reporting to proactive risk management by automating how enterprise risks are identified, assessed, and reported.
- Transforms raw risk signals into board-ready insights and Securities and Exchange Commission-aligned disclosures, highlighting key trends and changes over time. Enriched with Moody’s risk benchmarking data, it embeds peer and market context—creating a seamless path from risk identification to defensible, disclosure-ready reporting.
- Automates the enterprise risk workflow by converting board materials and emerging signals into structured risk items within a centralized risk register, intelligently recommending owners and gathering input through automated assessments, all while keeping risk teams in control without administrative burden.
- Reduces risk and disclosure cycles by replacing manual coordination and review with streamlined, auditable workflows, ensuring executives, boards, and counsel can trust that every disclosure is accurate, on time, and ready for filing.
“With autonomous agents, organizations stay firmly in charge of decisions,” Diligent said. “Every agent’s action and recommendation is logged and traceable, with approvals creating an auditable record aligned to established governance standards. Leaders set clear boundaries for agent activity, review outputs in plain language, and determine what to accept, modify. or reject.”
Customers can request early access to AI Board Member here and autonomous agents here.
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