DSI 001 · For investors and investment committees
The risk is not the AI
It is the governance the buyer inherits. DSI 001 provides diligence evidence relevant to valuation, IC review, conditions precedent, portfolio monitoring and exit readiness, for companies whose value depends on autonomous systems.
The governance the buyer inherits
The risk is that material valuation depends on an autonomous system whose governance cannot survive customer, insurer, regulator or acquirer review.
The absence of an external governance classification is itself a diligence signal, particularly where valuation depends on autonomous-system performance.
Where it enters the deal
Stage 01
IC memo input
A system-level read beside technical and commercial diligence.
Stage 02
Term-sheet condition
A target GBI band as a condition or covenant.
Stage 03
Monitoring
Reassessment on material change, across the book.
Stage 04
Exit readiness
An artefact the next buyer can rely on.
Where value is impaired, dimension by dimension
D1Autonomy. How much value depends on unattended decisions?
D2Data. What is the data-exposure tail on the balance sheet?
D3Contract. Is liability pushed up or down the chain?
D4Liability. Is the AE3 exposure recognised, capped or insured?
D5Leverage. Is the company locked into a system it cannot change?
D6Stability. Does governance survive the next update and the next buyer?
On the data roomAI prompts, outputs and communications are increasingly treated as discoverable evidence of decision quality. A contemporaneous, independently assessed record is the difference between a clean data room and a reconstructed one.
Add a GBI to your diligence
Bring a classification into IC review, or condition a deal on one.
Status and limits. A GBI score carries evidential value only when issued by an accredited DSI 001 assessor against the methodology; self-scored or indicative figures are not DSI 001 results. DSI 001 does not determine legal compliance, regulatory approval, insurability, creditworthiness, or the discharge of fiduciary duties. It provides a scoped governance classification and evidence record that may be relevant to those analyses.