Jul 25, 2025
M&A due diligence is a critical but complex process, often requiring teams to navigate unstructured information, apply expert judgment, and deliver comprehensive, structured outputs under tight timelines. At Normain, we help professional services teams supercharge this process, making it up to 80% faster, more consistent, and more scalable, without losing the human expertise at its core.
Since Normain’s outputs follow structured, consistent formats, firms can build their own internal benchmarking libraries over time. This allows for easier comparisons of findings across deals, more effective tracking over time, and continuous improvement of due diligence frameworks.
Why M&A Due Diligence and Normain is a match made in heaven
Due diligence work checks many boxes where Normain’s AI agents shine:
Repetitive work: Due diligence requires analyzing and summarizing similar types of information across deals.
Judgement-based analysis: Experts must assess risks, opportunities, and gaps, i.e. tasks that require structured frameworks but nuanced interpretation.
Clear standards of quality: Teams have a well-defined understanding of "what good looks like" for diligence reports. While these standards are clear, they often vary across firms, calling for bespoke AI solutions.
Deep domain expertise: Effectively understanding legal, financial, and operational risks requires experience, which is difficult to replicate or embed within generic AI tools.
Unstructured inputs: Due diligence processes involve reviewing varied and unorganized sources like contracts, policies, organizational charts, financial statements, and emails.
Structured outputs: The goal is to produce clear deliverables such as risk matrices, red flag reports, executive summaries, and full due diligence reports.
In other words, due diligence work sits at the intersection of repeatable process and expert insight—precisely where Normain’s AI agents excel, transforming the work to be faster, more consistent, scalable, and insight-driven.
How Normain supports M&A Due Diligence
Work with your existing templates
Normain allows your teams to bring their own due diligence frameworks—whether that’s a standard set of due diligence questions or scoring criteria, a red-flag reporting template, or a checklist for material contracts—and embed them directly into the platform. No need to reinvent your process.
Embed your unique expertise
With Normain, your team’s proprietary knowledge and judgment criteria can be built into AI agents. You can fine-tune instructions to reflect your firm's unique approach to the due diligence process, and easily give feedback on AI-generated outputs. Normain learns continuously, even auto-suggesting improvements to align better with your standards.
Evaluate and optimize output quality
Normain makes it incredibly easy to evaluate the quality of AI-generated outputs through its customizable interface, letting you score and compare different versions across runs. The ideal settings can then be saved and reused. Unlike chat-based AI tools, where comparing outputs between runs is nearly impossible, Normain enables a structured, repeatable evaluation process that ensures transparency, quality control, and continuous improvement across projects.
Re-use with new data
Once your framework is in Normain, it can be instantly re-used on new transactions. Select your data for a new target company directly from the file system—policies, contracts, organization charts—and your team can quickly produce first-draft reports for review, saving days or even weeks on every deal.
The benefits of using Normain for M&A teams
⚫ Speed: Efficiently process large volumes of documents and reduce time spent on repetitive and routine tasks.
⚫ Consistency: Ensure every diligence project follows your firm’s process know-how, proprietary data, and quality standard, regardless of who is staffed on the deal.
⚫ Scalability: Rerun Normain framework with the next client’s data, for a fully scalable workflow.
⚫ Benchmarking: Build internal data sets over time to compare findings across deals, clients, or industries.
⚫ Team enablement: Free up senior team members to focus on high-value judgement and client advice, while junior staff can work faster, with expert-guided frameworks. Share AI agents across teams to scale expertise throughout your firm.
⚫ Seamless integration: Work within familiar environments (e.g., Excel, Word), with no disruption to existing workflows.
⚫ Data protection: Enterprise-grade security ensures sensitive client and financial data is protected at every stage.
Example deliverables
With Normain, firms can more quickly produce:
Full due diligence reports
Red-flag reports
Summarized findings on contracts, litigation, and compliance risks
Disclosure schedule drafts
Integration planning checklists
Briefing packs for client presentations
👉 Get in touch to see how Normain can help your M&A team move faster, scale smarter, and deliver world-class due diligence.
