Deal cycles don't wait for security teams. Skim the data room and accept the gaps, or spend two weeks producing a pack the deal committee skims anyway. Verisq makes the third option viable: a defensible pack on every target, ready before the next deal-team review.
It's a built-in program type with deal-team vocabulary native: Green-light, Red-flag, Request more diligence. Default deadlines are 7 days, not 30. Reminder cadence is tighter. The reviewer dashboard surfaces deal-stage status (LOI, exclusivity, signed) alongside the security findings so the deal team and the security team see the same view.
The AI authoring M&A questionnaires uses a different system message than the TPRM authoring profile. It's tuned for in-flight breaches, license posture, key-person dependencies, regulatory exposure, sub-processor risk, and IP entanglement. It surfaces things a TPRM-tuned profile would miss — like whether the target is in the middle of an unannounced incident response, or whether their core IP is encumbered by a customer contract that triggers on change-of-control.
Compare three potential acquisition targets in parallel. The same questionnaire dispatches to each target's named contact. Per-target customization — specific data-room URLs, contact names, deal-specific notes — supported without forking the template. The reviewer sees the comparison side-by-side, so the deal committee gets a security-graded ranking, not a stack of separate reports.
The target's findings become the new acquired entity's TPRM record automatically at close. No re-keying. Open findings carry forward into the post-close remediation queue with the deal-stage history preserved. The integration team inherits a real risk register, not a Word document.
Every diligence decision — Green-light, Red-flag, Request more diligence — captured in the Decision Audit with reviewer signature, timestamp, IP, user agent, and free-text justification. When the deal post-mortem asks "why did we close knowing this," the audit log answers definitively. When the regulator asks the same question post-acquisition, the answer is already in the Compliance Pack Export.
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