Due Diligence Questionnaires · Workflow benchmark

How much of your questionnaire workflow is still done by hand?

Answer eight questions about how due diligence questionnaires are built, answered, reviewed and returned in your firm today. We will show you where each step sits against a fully digitised questionnaire process, which gaps that leaves, and what those gaps cost at your own cost base.

What you are measured against. The fourth rung of every ladder describes a due diligence questionnaire handled end to end in one system: built once, answered from what the firm already knows, divided across the people who own the answers, checked before it goes, and returned as structured data rather than a document. It is a standard, not a claim about any named firm. Your answers stay in your browser. If you ask for the report we will ask for your details so we can send it and follow up, and your answers are shared with our product team so the platform keeps moving in the direction the people who use it need.

How questionnaires run today

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A little about the workload

A rough figure is fine. Used to show the hours absorbed per questionnaire.

Your numbers

Anyone who regularly builds, answers, reviews or chases them, whatever their title.
Salary, employer costs and overhead. Hourly rate used: -
Annual cost of the gap
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Steps behind the standard
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Hours a year absorbed by the gap
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Gap hours per questionnaire

The gap

Each row runs from the most manual way of working to the fully digitised standard. Your answer is marked in navy. The shaded rungs are the distance.

Where you are The gap The standard
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What each gap actually means

Ordered by what it costs you. Steps you told us cause a lot of friction are marked.

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How the figure is calculated

Each answer carries an estimate of the hours a month, per person, that way of working absorbs. The gap is the difference between the hours at your answer and the hours at the standard, multiplied by twelve and by the number of people, then priced at your own hourly rate. That rate is derived from the fully loaded cost you entered over 1,700 working hours a year, which is the same basis as the calculators on our solutions pages.

What the figure deliberately leaves out

It prices reclaimed time only. It puts no value on an answer that is consistent with the last one you gave, on a questionnaire returned before the deadline rather than after it, or on a record that shows who wrote and who approved every answer. Those tend to be the things people raise first, and none of them is a number we would invent for you.

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Due diligence questionnaire workflow benchmark

How much of this firm's questionnaire workflow is still done by hand

Based on the answers given, measured against a due diligence questionnaire handled end to end in one system. A standard, not a claim about any named firm.

About the figures. Based on the answers given on the page and priced at the cost base entered, over 1,700 working hours a year. They value reclaimed time only. Prepared .
—Annual cost of the gap
—Steps behind the standard
—Hours a year absorbed
—Full-time equivalents

Step by step

StepWhere you are todayThe standardFrictionAnnual cost

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    Method. Each answer carries an estimate of the hours a month, per person, that way of working absorbs. The gap is the difference between the hours at the answer given and the hours at the standard, annualised across the team and priced at the hourly rate derived from the fully loaded cost entered, over 1,700 working hours a year. Figures price reclaimed time only and exclude answer consistency, deadline risk and the audit record.

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