Legal Tools
Diligent
Enterprise governance, risk, audit and compliance portfolio spanning board operations, entity management and organizational oversight.
What it is
Diligent is a proprietary portfolio for board management and governance, risk and compliance work, not one interchangeable legal tool. Diligent Boards centralizes agendas, board books, minutes, votes, messages, archives and offline director access. Diligent One brings together board reporting with applications for enterprise risk, audit, ethics and compliance, entity management and market intelligence. Public list pricing is not provided; the vendor offers tiered, quote-based packages and demos. Buyers must identify the exact applications, user populations, data sources, AI features, services and security obligations included in an order.
Key features
Board management
Organizes meetings, agendas, board books, annotations, minutes, voting and action tracking.
GRC applications
Supports separately scoped enterprise risk, audit, ethics, compliance and entity workflows.
Board-ready reporting
Curates operational and risk information into dashboards and materials for leadership oversight.
Secure access
Provides mobile and offline use with identity, encryption, permissions and audit controls.
Strengths and trade-offs
What works well
- Board materials, decisions, actions and secure collaboration can be governed in one board-focused workspace.
- The wider platform connects board reporting to audit, enterprise risk, compliance and entity-management use cases.
- Boards supports offline access and mobile workflows for directors who work across meetings and locations.
- SAML SSO, configurable MFA, granular access, audit trails and encryption controls address sensitive governance data.
Where it falls short
- No public transactional price: modules, directors, administrators, entities, data feeds, integrations and implementation require a quote.
- Diligent is a broad product family; a Boards entitlement does not prove that audit, ERM, compliance or market-intelligence functions are included.
- AI-generated summaries, minutes and risk flags can be incomplete or wrong and require authorized human review against source material.
- Centralizing privileged board and risk information raises migration, retention, legal-hold, export, offline-device and administrator-access consequences.
Who it is for
Boards, company secretaries, general counsel, audit, risk and compliance leaders at organizations with formal governance obligations.
Our verdict
Diligent can provide a serious board and GRC control plane, but compare the exact applications rather than the corporate brand. Pilot a real meeting and risk-reporting cycle, verify SSO and lost-device behavior, test exports and legal retention, and require transparent module, service and renewal pricing.
Closest alternatives we track
Same category, ordered by verified starting price.
What we checked
- Public APIOffers a documented API you can build against.No
- Mobile appHas a native app for iOS or Android, not just a mobile website.Yes
- Open source / self-hostableSource is open and the tool can be run on your own infrastructure.No
- SSO (SAML)Supports SAML single sign-on on at least one plan.Yes
“Not checked” means exactly that — we have not verified it, and we do not guess.
Evidence and freshness
Status: Official sources reviewedReviewed: 2026-08-24
- Diligent — Pricing ↗
Checked 2026-08-24 · Supports: tiered quote model, demo and pricing request route, Board Management Enterprise Risk Audit and Market Intelligence solution categories
- Diligent — Boards ↗
Checked 2026-08-24 · Supports: board books meetings messaging voting and actions, AI summaries minutes and risk scanner, integrations, audit logs, training and market data boundaries
- Diligent — Diligent One ↗
Checked 2026-08-24 · Supports: board and GRC platform scope, Risk and Strategy, Ethics and Compliance, Board Education, third-party data connections, dashboard and report positioning
- Diligent — Directors and trustees ↗
Checked 2026-08-24 · Supports: online and offline board materials, encrypted messaging, version and decision history, mobile use, access controls and audit trails
- Diligent — Security overview ↗
Checked 2026-08-24 · Supports: TLS and at-rest encryption design, per-customer key controls, offline data encryption, SAML 2.0 SSO, ADFS Azure AD and Okta, configurable MFA
- Diligent — Trust Center ↗
Checked 2026-08-24 · Supports: security and privacy control categories, subprocessor DPA and policy availability, access-controlled assurance evidence
Limit: Official Diligent pricing, Boards, Diligent One, director, security and trust sources were reviewed; ToolCompare did not request a demo or quote, access a tenant or trust-room evidence, review a contract, run a board meeting, test web/mobile/offline/SSO/MFA/integrations/exports/legal hold/audit/ERM/compliance/entity workflows, validate AI output, simulate device loss, verify certifications or contact support. Product scope, AI availability and commercial terms can change; security evidence applies only to the named products and configurations.