Due Diligence Document Reviewer
Review due diligence documents and flag risks in minutes
What You Can Do
This skill systematically analyzes financial statements, legal contracts, and compliance documents to extract key metrics, identify legal and financial risks, and surface red flags. You can upload complex multi-page documents and receive structured risk assessments, compliance checks, and executive summaries that accelerate your due diligence process. Claude evaluates documents against industry standards and your custom criteria, enabling faster, more thorough investment and acquisition decisions.
Features
Automatically identifies document types (financial statements, contracts, regulations, board minutes) and indexes content for targeted analysis
Flags legal, financial, regulatory, and operational risks with severity levels and supporting evidence from the source document
Extracts revenue, EBITDA, margins, debt levels, cash flow, and other KPIs into structured tables for comparison
Checks documents against industry-specific regulations (SOX, GDPR, HIPAA) and generates compliance reports
Pulls payment terms, termination clauses, liability caps, non-compete agreements, and other critical contract provisions
Compares claims across multiple documents and highlights inconsistencies or conflicting information
Creates one-page overviews of each document with key findings, risks ranked by severity, and recommended actions
Evaluates documents against your specific deal criteria, scoring frameworks, or compliance requirements
Example Output
Financial Statement Review:
- Revenue (2024): $12.5M (+18% YoY)
- Gross Margin: 62% (Industry avg: 58%)
- ⚠️ Risk Flagged: Customer concentration—top 3 clients = 45% of revenue
- Outstanding debt: $3.2M, due Q1 2025
Contract Analysis Summary:
- Vendor contract has 90-day termination clause
- Non-compete restricts hiring for 12 months post-acquisition
- 🚨 Critical: Automatic price increase clause triggers if acquirer changes business model
Compliance Check (GDPR):
- ✅ Privacy policy mentions GDPR compliance
- ⚠️ Data retention policy exceeds 3-year recommendation
- 🚨 No evidence of Data Processing Agreements with subprocessors
What's Included
- Risk Assessment Framework: Pre-built categorization for legal, financial, regulatory, and operational risks with severity scoring
- Financial Extraction Templates: Structured tables for P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and custom KPI extraction from any financial document
- Compliance Checklist Engine: Built-in compliance checks for SOX, GDPR, HIPAA, and industry-specific regulations; easily customizable
- Executive Summary Formatter: Template-driven report generation with risk rankings, key metrics, and recommended actions
- Red Flag Library: Common M&A and due diligence red flags (customer concentration, key person dependencies, litigious history)
Who It's For
- M&A Lawyers and Legal Teams
- Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors
- Investment Bankers and Deal Advisors
- Corporate Counsel and Compliance Officers
- Internal Audit and Risk Management Teams
Best For
- Accelerating financial document review during acquisition pipeline screening
- Extracting and comparing KPIs across multiple target companies
- Identifying hidden risks in contracts and legal documents before closing
- Verifying regulatory compliance and flagging compliance gaps
- Creating structured, comparable risk profiles across deal opportunities
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