> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://help.jurisphere.ai/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://help.jurisphere.ai/jurisphere-guide/handbook/due-diligence/overview.md).

# Overview

Due diligence is the most document-intensive workstream a corporate team handles. The volume, the format inconsistency, and the speed-versus-coverage trade-off are where Jurisphere's reading and extraction tools earn their place.

## The shape of the work

A typical buyer-side mandate moves from initial scoping of the mandate to data-room intake, substantive review of material agreements, chapter-wise reporting, and mark-up and negotiation of the SPA. Jurisphere works the volume end.

* [Auto-folderize](https://jurisphere.gitbook.io/jurisphere-guide/auto-folderize) sorts the data room by content, not filename, into Litigation, Corporate, IP, HR, Contracts, and finance sub-folders.
* [File Library](https://jurisphere.gitbook.io/jurisphere-guide/file-library/overview-of-the-file-library) auto-summarises each file on upload.
* [Parallel Review](https://jurisphere.gitbook.io/jurisphere-guide/parallel-review/overview-of-the-parallel-review-tool) reads across hundreds of contracts at once.
* [Document Review Workflows](https://jurisphere.gitbook.io/jurisphere-guide/document-review/workflows-on-document-review) surface deal-relevant clauses on one click for change-of-control triggers, CP/CS items, transfer restrictions, disclosure requirements, and uncapped indemnities, among others.
* [Word Add-In](https://jurisphere.gitbook.io/jurisphere-guide/word-add-in/overview-of-the-word-add-in) carries the SPA negotiation in-document with [Review Playbooks](https://jurisphere.gitbook.io/jurisphere-guide/word-add-in/review-playbooks) for clause-level firm standards.

Commercial weighting (deal-breakers, disclosure-schedule items, indemnity calibration) stays with the partner.

## How the work moves

A mandate moves through the stages below. The detailed walkthrough, with the tools each stage uses and the call the lawyer still owns, is on the next page.

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Intake &#x26; Translation</strong></td><td>Upload via Google Drive, OneDrive, SharePoint, or Dropbox Sync.</td><td><a href="/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#intake-translation">/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#intake-translation</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Mandate &#x26; Requisition</strong></td><td>Prepare requisition lists and review dataroom responses.</td><td><a href="/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#mandate-requisition">/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#mandate-requisition</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Substantive Review</strong></td><td>Apply Workflows for change-of-control, CP/CS, transfer restrictions, disclosure obligations, uncapped indemnities.</td><td><a href="/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#substantive-review">/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#substantive-review</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Reporting &#x26; Chronology</strong></td><td>Master List of Dates over litigation files for the broad chronology.</td><td><a href="/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#reporting-chronology">/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#reporting-chronology</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Negotiation Support</strong></td><td>SPA negotiation in the Word Add-In with Review Playbooks.</td><td><a href="/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#negotiation-support">/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#negotiation-support</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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**The shape of the time saved.** What used to take a team of four around nine working days is delivered in roughly half the time. The chronology, contract extracts, and group-entity filings remain auditable back to source through in-line citations.
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