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Connected intelligence for GRC: A technical whitepaper

September 11, 2026

Why agentic AI across governance, risk and compliance (GRC) needs a connected knowledge and reasoning foundation

For GRC departments, the shared underlying challenge today comes down to a lack connection rather than volume. Teams have plenty of information at their fingertips, but often too little authoritative context linking that data together to assist the most informed business decisions.

Generic large language models (LLMs) speed up information retrieval, but they cannot compensate for fragmented knowledge, inconsistent terminology or unclear authority. As AI agents move from summarizing documents to acting on them, that gap stops being an inconvenience and starts being a risk.

This white paper, authored by Diligent's Vice President, Anton Merk, and Chief Technology Officer, Anmol Bhasin, examines the shared knowledge layer behind agentic GRC capabilities, and what it takes for AI to reason across domains rather than perform guesswork drawing from disconnected content sources.

What's inside

  • Why 64% of governance leaders rank AI governance as their top skill for the next three years, yet only 36% trust agents to act without approval
  • The five principles behind a trustworthy GRC knowledge foundation: canonical, harmonized, relationship-aware, version-controlled and reusable
  • How connected intelligence turns a retrieved document into a reasoned, explainable answer
  • A five-part checklist for evaluating any AI-native or agentic GRC capability
  • Where human judgment must stay in the loop as agents take on more execution

Read the whitepaper to bring a sharper set of questions to your next AI evaluation and discover what it takes to separate genuine agentic capabilities from 'fluent-sounding' automation.

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