Get instant, cited insights from your board materials.
Your directors can finally stop reaching for ungoverned LLMs and start asking their securely-stored board materials directly for answers with GovernAI. Your team spend less time fielding information requests, and get time back for higher value work.
Start with a question, then drill down to the right answer.
"Compare this quarter's risk register to last quarter's. What's new and what's resolved?"
- Ask a question and get a direct, synthesized answer, not a list of documents to read through yourself
- Every answer is backed by a citation straight to its source in your board books, minutes, and resolutions
- Follow up and drill down, the way you would with a colleague who's already read everything
- See only what you're authorized to, automatically

Cut board prep time from days to minutes
Call on your agentic board assistant, GovernAI, to build packs, draft minutes and prep directors, so your team stops scrambling before every meeting.
No more assembling packs from scratch
The agenda, performance updates, financials, committee reports, risk register, and last meeting’s minutes all get pulled together with AI into a polished, editable first draft of the board book.
You just review the pack, not rebuild it every time.
Directors walk in ready, every time
Spot risk exposure before materials reach directors
Catch changes before the meeting
Stop the minutes backlog

Where 75% of world-leading organizations manage governance
Everything else your board needs in one secure place

Single source of truth
Every board material, vote, signature and action item across your board(s) live in one secure, centralized platform, so nothing falls through the cracks and nobody chases paperwork.
Built-in data room
You're always ready for diligence, M&A, a fundraise or an external audit the moment it's needed, with a native Data Room built directly into Diligent Boards. No separate system required.
Questionnaires without the email trail
Disclosures, evaluations and D&O questionnaires get collected, tracked, signed and encrypted in Diligent Boards, so sensitive responses never travel by email.
Integrated market intelligence
Peer performance, analyst sentiment and market risk data from S&P Global show up right alongside your board materials, no separate subscription needed.

Financial reporting, directly from NetSuite®
Directors review financial performance drawn directly from NetSuite®, not a manually rebuilt spreadsheet, so board materials reflect the business as it stands today.

Ready to see your board run differently?
Your whole board management workflow, optimized with GovernAI and protected by enterprise-grade security. See it for yourself with a Diligent Boards demo.
The connected intelligence behind every GovernAI answer

Connected knowledge and reasoning
A canonical, relationship-aware knowledge layer that ensures GovernAI reasons across context (instead of just retrieving documents) and connects the dots you didn't ask it to connect.
Board materials
Board packs, resolutions and committee records, synced automatically from Diligent Boards.
Prior decisions & precedent
Your own board's history, instantly queryable instead of re-discovered each cycle.
Public record
Regulatory filings, market developments and news signals from outside your four walls.
Expert perspectives
Curated domain lenses: Risk & Compliance Specilaist, Board Chair, Cyber Consultant, and more.
Governance instinct
Diligent's three decades of designing tech and education programs for the world's leading boardrooms means GovernAI instinctively knows how boards work, how workflows move, and what makes a governance record defensible.
One platform for every governance role. Wherever you sit at the table.
Corporate Secretary
Before Diligent: Hours lost manually assembling packs, chasing signatures across email and chat, and reconciling which document version is actually final.
With Diligent: Auto-assemble board packs with AI, manage approvals and e-signatures, and keep one governed record of every version, vote and signature.
General Counsel
Board Director

Augments human judgment. Never replaces it.
GovernAI surfaces context and expert perspective. Directors still ask the questions, weigh the evidence and cast their vote. GCs and CoSecs get a defensible record of exactly how that decision was reached.
Governance-permissioned
GovernAI operates strictly inside your existing governance permissions, automatically.
Cited answers
Every GovernAI response traces back to its source in your board materials stored inside Diligent.
No model training
Your data is never used to train any other AI model, by anyone.
Human-in-the-loop
Proactive actions requires humna approval. Never autonomous execution.
Defensible record
Logged queries and actions support Duty of Care documentation.
No configuration
GovernAI is natively embedded within Diligent Boards. No additional login, no manual setup.
Validated by analysts. Loved by customers
See why Diligent has been named a ‘Leader’ by the top 5 independent analyst firms (Chartis, Forrester, Gartner, IDC and Verdantix) — and why customers consistently award us top ratings for innovation, ease of use and real results.
"Diligent’s vision differentiates by showing how AI-enabled and continuous GRC will transform the board’s relationship with risk. Its roadmap reflects this vision and has a clear approach to deliver competitive outcomes."
Forrester Wave™ GRC Platforms Report, 2026


Don't just take our word for it. Take theirs.
"Diligent has been instrumental in streamlining our governance processes, enabling us to scale efficiently while maintaining clarity, compliance, and strategic focus. It has increased our productivity in meeting preparation and empowered directors to engage meaningfully by synthesizing insights for more effective discussions."
Eric Myers
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
ELCO Mutual Life and Annuity
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What is board management software, and how does it work?
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