Nasdaq Pulls AI Diligence Into eVestment

Nasdaq is turning eVestment into an AI-enabled diligence hub, automating document review, DDQs, and monitoring across the investment workflow.

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What is this trend?

Nasdaq is embedding AI diligence tools from Dasseti into eVestment, turning the platform into a system for automated DDQs, document review, and ongoing manager monitoring.

  • AI now pre-fills DDQs from manager docs, ADV filings, and policies
  • Chat-with-docs, clause search, and gap analysis move inside eVestment
  • Validation, audit trail, and follow-up logic shift from analysts to the platform
  • Diligence expands from point-in-time review to continuous monitoring workflows
  • Corporate development teams face less extraction work and more exception handling

What’s the latest?

Nasdaq’s acquisition of Dasseti this week folds AI diligence directly into eVestment, bringing Sidekick and its DDQ/document-review tools inside the platform.

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How it developed

  1. AI turns the VDR into a diligence operating layer, accelerating search, summarization, and Q&A

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