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Diligent adds agentic AI tools to risk & audit platform. Wed, 16th Sep 2026 (Today) Diligent has added new agentic AI tools to its Diligent One platform for risk and audit teams. The update is intended to help organisations shift from periodic reporting to more continuous oversight by combining specialised AI agents with reporting tools that draw on live risk and controls data. The new functions include an orchestration agent that lets governance, risk and compliance staff use natural language to coordinate audit and risk work. The system routes tasks to specialised agents operating across different parts of the audit and risk process. Those agents are tied to Diligent One's underlying governance, risk and compliance data, allowing them to work with context drawn from regulations, obligations, policies, controls, risks, evidence and actions across an organisation. Within enterprise risk management, the agent is designed to monitor risk data, clean records, coordinate assessments, follow up overdue actions, escalate issues and identify emerging risks. In internal audit, the tools can identify relevant risks, map them to audit objectives, link existing controls and support evidence collection, testing and findings development. Diligent also introduced AI reporting features that can generate board-ready reports from live risk and controls data. Users can use conversational prompts or templates to produce reports with source citations. The move comes as boards and executives face pressure to respond more quickly to changing risk conditions while maintaining oversight and accountability. Diligent positioned the launch around the need for better visibility across organisations and faster decision-making. Andrew Amos, Vice President, APAC, Diligent, addressed the Australian market in comments released alongside the announcement. "Australian organisations are operating in an environment where risk can shift quickly, and business leaders increasingly need a real-time view of what is changing and what it means for the decisions ahead. Agentic AI has the potential to fundamentally change how risk and audit teams respond, moving them beyond static, point-in-time reporting towards continuous monitoring that can surface changes, initiate action and accelerate decision-making. This isn't about handing responsibility to AI. It's about using AI to help teams make faster, better-informed decisions, while ensuring strong governance through human judgement, clear accountability, and understanding how decisions and recommendations are reached," said Amos. Workflow focus Diligent said the orchestration agent differs from a standard question-and-answer assistant because it is designed to coordinate tasks and approvals as well as respond to prompts. It can direct work to the relevant specialised agents rather than simply return information. Brian Stafford, President and Chief Executive Officer, Diligent, linked the product changes to longstanding inefficiencies in governance, risk and compliance work. "For many organisations, GRC work is slowed by fragmented systems, manual coordination and time-consuming reporting processes. Our latest agentic capabilities help teams cut through that complexity by connecting context, surfacing what matters and driving faster execution - while keeping governance and professional judgement at the center," said Stafford. Data layer At the centre of the update is what Diligent calls its GRC brain, a connected intelligence layer that links information across governance, risk and compliance workflows. The company said this layer gives the agents enough domain context to explain the rationale behind recommendations and work more like specialist practitioners. Diligent said this connected layer will become available in select solutions in October. According to the company, the broader Diligent One platform is already used across board, executive and practitioner teams. Scott Bridgen, General Manager, Risk & Audit, Diligent, said the change reflects a broader shift in what organisations expect from risk and audit functions. "Risk and audit teams are being asked to look beyond what happened yesterday and give the business the insights it needs to make better decisions today and tomorrow. That means moving from static, point-in-time reporting to always-on monitoring that can identify changes as they happen and trigger action in real time, with the right level of oversight, approval and accountability," said Bridgen. Diligent said it serves more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members across its software products.

Diligent adds agentic AI tools to risk & audit platform. Wed, 16th Sep 2026 (Today) Diligent has added new agentic AI tools to its Diligent One platform for risk and audit teams. The update is intended to help organisations shift from periodic reporting to more continuous oversight by combining specialised AI agents with reporting tools that draw on live risk and controls data. The new functions include an orchestration agent that lets governance, risk and compliance staff use natural language to coordinate audit and risk work. The system routes tasks to specialised agents operating across different parts of the audit and risk process. Those agents are tied to Diligent One's underlying governance, risk and compliance data, allowing them to work with context drawn from regulations, obligations, policies, controls, risks, evidence and actions across an organisation. Within enterprise risk management, the agent is designed to monitor risk data, clean records, coordinate assessments, follow up overdue actions, escalate issues and identify emerging risks. In internal audit, the tools can identify relevant risks, map them to audit objectives, link existing controls and support evidence collection, testing and findings development. Diligent also introduced AI reporting features that can generate board-ready reports from live risk and controls data. Users can use conversational prompts or templates to produce reports with source citations. The move comes as boards and executives face pressure to respond more quickly to changing risk conditions while maintaining oversight and accountability. Diligent positioned the launch around the need for better visibility across organisations and faster decision-making. Andrew Amos, Vice President, APAC, Diligent, addressed the Australian market in comments released alongside the announcement. "Australian organisations are operating in an environment where risk can shift quickly, and business leaders increasingly need a real-time view of what is changing and what it means for the decisions ahead. Agentic AI has the potential to fundamentally change how risk and audit teams respond, moving them beyond static, point-in-time reporting towards continuous monitoring that can surface changes, initiate action and accelerate decision-making. This isn't about handing responsibility to AI. It's about using AI to help teams make faster, better-informed decisions, while ensuring strong governance through human judgement, clear accountability, and understanding how decisions and recommendations are reached," said Amos. Workflow focus Diligent said the orchestration agent differs from a standard question-and-answer assistant because it is designed to coordinate tasks and approvals as well as respond to prompts. It can direct work to the relevant specialised agents rather than simply return information. Brian Stafford, President and Chief Executive Officer, Diligent, linked the product changes to longstanding inefficiencies in governance, risk and compliance work. "For many organisations, GRC work is slowed by fragmented systems, manual coordination and time-consuming reporting processes. Our latest agentic capabilities help teams cut through that complexity by connecting context, surfacing what matters and driving faster execution - while keeping governance and professional judgement at the center," said Stafford. Data layer At the centre of the update is what Diligent calls its GRC brain, a connected intelligence layer that links information across governance, risk and compliance workflows. The company said this layer gives the agents enough domain context to explain the rationale behind recommendations and work more like specialist practitioners. Diligent said this connected layer will become available in select solutions in October. According to the company, the broader Diligent One platform is already used across board, executive and practitioner teams. Scott Bridgen, General Manager, Risk & Audit, Diligent, said the change reflects a broader shift in what organisations expect from risk and audit functions. "Risk and audit teams are being asked to look beyond what happened yesterday and give the business the insights it needs to make better decisions today and tomorrow. That means moving from static, point-in-time reporting to always-on monitoring that can identify changes as they happen and trigger action in real time, with the right level of oversight, approval and accountability," said Bridgen. Diligent said it serves more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members across its software products.

Diligent unveils New agentic capabilities in Diligent One to power the future of governance, Risk and Compliance. Diligent | Published 16 Sept 2026 New capabilities help organisations move from fragmented information to confident action while keeping people in control Diligent, the AI leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions, today announced a major enhancement to Diligent One, its native AI platform, at Gartner's Enterprise Risk, Audit and Compliance Conference (ERAC). "For many organisations, GRC work is slowed by fragmented systems, manual coordination and time-consuming reporting processes," said Brian Stafford, President and CEO of Diligent. "Our latest agentic capabilities help teams cut through that complexity by connecting context, surfacing what matters and driving faster execution - while keeping governance and professional judgement at the center." An orchestration agent that coordinates work and approvals The orchestration agent in Diligent One gives GRC professionals a natural-language interface to coordinate audit and risk work. Instead of simply answering questions, it enables users to describe what they need, and routes work to the right specialised agents to execute workflows. Agents are built on Diligent One's connected GRC data, giving them the domain knowledge to execute workflows across the audit and risk lifecycle, automating the work that slows practitioners down without replacing human judgement. Through Diligent One, specialised agents: * Help risk teams move from periodic assessments to continuous management by working directly in Diligent Enterprise Risk Management. The agent monitors risk data, cleans records, coordinates assessments, follows up on overdue actions, escalates issues and surfaces emerging risks. * Help internal audit teams plan and execute audits faster by turning manual preparation into conversational workflows in Diligent Audit. The agent identifies relevant risks, maps them to audit objectives, links existing controls and supports evidence collection, testing and findings development. In addition, AI reporting turns live risk and controls data into board-ready reports and insights on demand. Using conversational prompts or templates, teams can quickly surface key findings and generate polished, secure, source-cited reports in minutes instead of days - eliminating hours spent manually pulling together data, insights and presentations. "Risk and audit teams are being asked to look beyond what happened yesterday and give the business the insights it needs to make better decisions today and tomorrow," said Scott Bridgen, General Manager, Risk & Audit at Diligent. "That means moving from static, point-in-time reporting to always-on monitoring that can identify changes as they happen and trigger action in real time, with the right level of oversight, approval and accountability." AI that reasons like a GRC expert At the foundation of Diligent One is the GRC brain, a connected intelligence layer that links regulations, obligations, policies, controls, risks, evidence and actions. By connecting this information, the GRC brain gives agents the domain knowledge to work like an experienced GRC practitioner, equipped with deep context of how information connects across the business. This connected intelligence gives Diligent One's agents the ability to reason across relationships to deliver sharper insights and clearly explain the rationale behind the recommendations. The result is practical, actionable intelligence that helps GRC teams prioritise work, surface potential gaps and respond more efficiently to emerging risks. The GRC brain will become available in select Diligent solutions in October.