EY Uses Capitol AI to Compress Diligence From Weeks to Hours
Shaun Modi · Building the Intelligence Engine for Finance and National Security with Shaun Modi of Capitol AI · Aug 11, 2026 · at 23:48
Shaun Modi, founder and CEO of Capitol AI, discusses the enterprise go-to-market strategy and primary workflows for commercial diligence.
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“One of our flagship customers is EY, known as Ernst & Young. They've been an amazing partner for them. We are powering diligence workflows. So think commercial due diligence or divestiture. These are Incredibly labor intensive processes that requires people to pour over data rooms with spreadsheets and legal documents and tasks that take weeks. We can compress to, you know, half a day.”
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