Due diligence has two problems that nobody in the industry talks about honestly: it costs too much and it takes too long.A standard enhanced due diligence report runs five to seven business days under the best circumstances. Longer if the subject operates across multiple jurisdictions, if sources require translation, or if your provider is managing a backlog.

For compliance teams running active caseloads and investment professionals evaluating time-sensitive opportunities, that turnaround creates real operational friction. Decisions get delayed. Transactions slow down. Risk exposure sits unaddressed while reports sit in a queue somewhere waiting for an analyst to get to them.The cost problem compounds the time problem.

Traditional EDD providers charge premium rates for a process that is, at its core, labor-intensive manual research. Analysts pulling records, cross-referencing sources, translating documents, assembling findings into a deliverable. The output is valuable. The process is inefficient by design, and clients absorb that inefficiency in every invoice they receive.

For organizations that need thorough due diligence across a high volume of subjects, the economics simply do not work.These are not new problems. They are structural features of an industry that has not fundamentally changed how it operates in decades. Clarytas was built to change that.

How Clarytas works

Our platform integrates directly with public records APIs and open source databases, querying corporate registries, sanctions lists, adverse media sources, litigation records, and other primary data sources in real time. Claire, our AI research assistant, synthesizes those findings into a structured, analyst-ready report in approximately ten minutes. Research that previously required hours of manual work and days of turnaround now happens in the time it takes to have a coffee.

The distinction between querying primary sources directly and relying on aggregated third-party databases matters more than most buyers realize. Aggregated databases are snapshots. They reflect the world as it was when the data was last collected, which may be weeks or months ago.

Clarytas pulls from primary sources in real time, which means the research reflects current reality rather than a cached version of it. In due diligence, that difference can be material.Claire does not replace analyst judgment. She handles the research burden that consumes most of an investigator's time, surfacing relevant findings across corporate affiliations, sanctions exposure, adverse media, litigation history, and ownership structures, so that the people reviewing the output can focus on analysis and decision-making rather than data collection.

Who uses Clarytas

Clarytas serves compliance teams and investment professionals who need consistent, defensible due diligence at a pace and price point that traditional providers cannot offer. The platform is used across a range of use cases: screening prospective investors ahead of fund closing, vetting counterparties before a transaction, running enhanced KYC on new business relationships, and conducting ongoing monitoring across an existing portfolio or client base.

Organizations that previously could not justify the cost of thorough due diligence on every relationship now can. Teams that previously had to choose between speed and quality no longer have to make that tradeoff. And compliance functions that have historically been viewed as a bottleneck in deal and onboarding processes can now operate at a pace that matches the business rather than slowing it down.

There is no lengthy implementation process. No enterprise sales cycle that takes months before you see the product. No minimum commitment structured around volume assumptions you cannot yet make. Clarytas is built to be operational quickly, priced to reflect the actual cost of the technology rather than the legacy economics of manual research, and designed to integrate into existing workflows without disruption.

Why it matters
The organizations that will manage risk most effectively over the next decade are not necessarily the ones with the largest compliance teams or the biggest research budgets. They are the ones that figure out how to combine human expertise with tools that dramatically extend what that expertise can accomplish.Due diligence done well is a competitive advantage. It protects capital, surfaces risk before it becomes a problem, and gives decision-makers the confidence to move quickly when the opportunity warrants it.

The goal of Clarytas is to make that level of due diligence accessible to any organization that needs it, not just the ones with the resources to staff a traditional EDD operation.If your current process involves waiting a week for research you needed yesterday, we should talk.