DHL completes diligence in a day with Eudia’s AI-Augmented M&A Solution

For “serious” diligence, the conventional wisdom was: hire a marquee firm, accept the slow turnaround and the six-to-seven figure invoice, and assume that’s the price of quality. In-house teams coordinated from the sidelines while the hourly model crept upward year after year—creating a persistent speed–cost trade-off and casting Legal as a cost center, not a deal accelerator. Budgets told the story: single-digit merit increases internally while outside-counsel rate letters arrived with double-digit hikes. The conclusion most of the market still holds: complex diligence demands big-firm muscle; if you trust AI, you’ll sacrifice quality.

Success is no longer measured in review hours; it’s measured in decision quality at deal speed. With Augmented-M&A, Legal operates as an always-on insight engine inside the business’s cadence—pushing structured terms and crisp issue lists, not page-count memos. Capacity is unlocked without headcount, and budget once earmarked for hourly review is redirected into repeatable capability DHL controls. That credibility compounds: when Legal shows up with trusted analysis on the executive timeline, the conversation moves to strategy and negotiation, not process.

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