What we’re shipping in CogniSuite and why it beats the way data rooms usually work. Plus our read on the M&A market, the rules that apply to deal software, and the security questions to put to any vendor.
Market insight
Q2 2026 M&A: record value on three irreconcilable totals, the lowest quarterly deal count since 2010, sponsors shut out by rates, and what megadeal concentration changes in the data room.
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What amended Regulation S-P requires a covered firm to be able to evidence about a data room vendor under the 3 December 2025 and 3 June 2026 compliance dates.
Product spotlight
A written answer to every diligence request, with verified quotes attached. Your team reviews and sends.
News
Cyber agencies advise against granting AI agents broad access to sensitive data. What a permission-scoped link between an assistant and a deal room must do.
Security
How much confidential material one compromised deal room account can reach, and what per-deal separation and per-folder access grades do to that number.
Market insight
What the Q1 2026 data agrees on, where the trackers contradict each other on deal counts, and what a handful of very large transactions meant for diligence work.
Regulation
Which of the two Article 50 transparency duties falls on the platform and which falls on your deal team before 2 August 2026, and what to ask a vendor.
Product spotlight
Bidders, deal team and clean team in one room, with folder-level visibility the AI obeys too.
News
What the run of US court sanctions over AI fabricated citations implies for AI drafted diligence answers, and what verifying a quote against its source still does not catch.
Security
What a FIPS validation certificate covers and what it leaves out, why the 22 September 2026 move to the Historical List is a reason to reopen the question, and seven questions that separate a real answer from a phrase.
Market insight
Why Q4 2025 closed the strongest year since 2021 on fewer and larger deals, and why the published full-year totals differ by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Product spotlight
One retrieval path, permission-checked before ranking. The AI answers from what the asker may open.
Market insight
What the sourced Q2 2025 figures support about rising value, falling deal counts and longer US merger investigations, and what they do not.
Product spotlight
The client’s Excel checklist becomes a working request list, word for word. The AI never retypes a request.
Product spotlight
Buy-side or sell-side, the room works out who the outsider is. Internal stays internal by default.
Product spotlight
Describe the deal in a sentence. Get the request list, the folder tree, and safe visibility on every folder.
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Four bidders, one question, one review. Confirmed answers carry across with their documents.
Product spotlight
Click any claim and the source document opens at the quote. No surviving evidence, no answer.
Product spotlight
Search by meaning. Find the change-of-control clause even when no document uses those words.
Product spotlight
Every counterparty-facing draft is checked against its sources, and unsupported figures are flagged before the send.
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