The traditional diligence process relies on "Law-firm-only" execution: a team of junior associates manually reviewing documents in a VDR, tracking issues in Excel, and summarising them in a Word report. Colabra is an AI workspace that automates the manual layer. We do not replace the lawyer's judgement; we replace the lawyer's administrative churn.
In the traditional model, you pay high hourly rates for junior lawyers to perform low-value tasks: renaming files, organising folders, and manually checking for standard clauses. It is slow, expensive, and incentivises "churn" rather than efficiency. You wait weeks for a "Red Flag Report" that is often outdated by the time it arrives.
Colabra automates the grunt work. We organise the VDR, map the entities, and extract the standard clauses instantly. This frees up your counsel to focus on interpreting the risks rather than finding them. You get the insights immediately, not after the billing cycle closes.
A law firm delivers a static PDF or Word document. It is a snapshot in time. If the seller uploads new files the next day, the report is obsolete. Colabra is a live database. As new files hit the data room, Colabra updates the risk register in real-time, ensuring you never make a decision on stale data.
Law firms often use manual Excel trackers to manage requests. These are prone to version control errors and lack direct links to the evidence. Colabra's Reconcile lens is a "smart tracker"—it connects your request directly to the underlying document, proving exactly which files satisfy which requirement.
When you rely solely on outside counsel, they hold the institutional knowledge. If you switch firms, you lose the history. Colabra is your workspace. You retain the risk data, the entity maps, and the diligence history across all your deals, building a proprietary intelligence asset for your firm.