Built for high-stakes work.
Underlying is flexible enough to handle any document-heavy workflow, but rigid enough to ensure accountability at every step.
Secretarial Due Diligence
Automate the extraction of incorporation details, board composition, and capitalization structures across hundreds of entity documents. Instantly surface missing resolutions or non-compliant filings.
The Old Way
- Manual review of messy, scanned corporate registries.
- Days spent building capitalization tables from PDFs.
With Underlying
- Automated org-chart generation and entity mapping.
- Instant flagging of missing corporate resolutions.
Financial Due Diligence
Cross-reference financial models with source contracts at scale. Automatically verify EBITDA add-backs against SPA terms and flag discrepancies before they reach the investment committee.
The Old Way
- Manual sampling of 10-15% of vendor contracts.
- Ctrl+F through hundreds of PDF pages for 'Change of Control'.
With Underlying
- 100% population review of all vendor agreements.
- Export directly to Excel with hyperlinked source citations.
AML / KYC Investigations
Accelerate deep-dive investigations into complex corporate structures. Synthesize ownership trees and flag high-risk entities across multi-jurisdictional registries.
The Old Way
- Manually cross-referencing global sanctions lists.
- Stitching together UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Owner) trees by hand.
With Underlying
- Automated UBO mapping across jurisdictions.
- Defensible, time-stamped audit trails for regulators.
Legal Contract Review
Review vendor agreements, NDAs, and employment contracts against your firm's standard playbook. The AI highlights deviations, and the human reviewer confirms the risk.
The Old Way
- Junior associates spend weeks reading boilerplate.
- High risk of missing edge-case liabilities due to fatigue.
With Underlying
- Playbook-driven analysis standardizes risk scoring across deals.
- Directly export flagged clauses into Word IC Memos.
Portfolio Monitoring
Ingest quarterly board decks, financial statements, and management reports across your entire portfolio. Automatically track KPI deviations and covenant compliance.
The Old Way
- Analysts manually copying data from unstructured board decks.
- Delayed visibility into portfolio company covenant breaches.
With Underlying
- Automated extraction of KPIs into structured databases.
- Early warning alerts for revenue or margin deviations.
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