Introducing Active Intelligence

AI-Powered Financial Reporting, Built for Accuracy and Speed

Active Intelligence™ is DFIN’s transformative suite of AI capabilities, thoughtfully designed to improve how organizations navigate complex regulatory reporting. By embedding advanced AI features across ActiveDisclosure℠ and Arc Suite®, Active Intelligence automates time‑intensive processes — enhancing accuracy, accelerating reporting, reducing cycle times, and delivering more reliable outcomes. Built on DFIN’s deep regulatory expertise, it powers intelligent workflows that reduce effort while maintaining the oversight and control required for compliance. The result is a smarter, more efficient approach to financial reporting.

DFIN AI Functionality

As part of DFIN's ActiveDisclosure solution, Active Intelligence gives you:

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Increased Efficiency

Save time with automating competitor comparisons and benchmarking your filings against industry leaders — eliminating time spent on manual research.

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Improve Filing Quality

Spot differences instantly, uncover trends, and reduce risk by benchmarking drafts against industry peers for increased accuracy and compliance.

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Uncover Gaps & Insights

Drill down into section-by-section analysis, revealing hidden insights or missing content — directly within ActiveDisclosure or exported to Excel.

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Introducing AI Peer Analysis

Active IntelligenceTM Peer Analysis, embedded directly within ActiveDisclosure, delivers secure, disclosure-driven insights by comparing filings across true peer sets and equivalent SEC sections. Designed to cut through noise caused by formatting or structural differences, it helps teams identify disclosure gaps, trends, and anomalies while improving consistency and quality.

Announcing AI Historical Analysis

DFIN Historical Analysis compares current SEC filings against a company’s prior‑period disclosures to surface meaningful changes, inconsistencies, and emerging trends over time. By highlighting what has shifted from one filing to the next, it helps teams maintain a consistent narrative, reduce risk, and approach each filing with greater confidence.

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Active Intelligence in Action 

AI-Powered Solutions

AI iXBRL Tagging in TSRs & N-CSR Filings

DFIN’s AI-powered tagging capabilities are designed to streamline the most time-intensive aspects of TSR and N-CSR compliance. By leveraging Active Intelligence iXBRL Tagging, DFIN can rapidly identify and apply the required iXBRL tags across TSR content - allowing teams to move faster, reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and shorten cycle times while maintaining the oversight required for confidence in compliance.

DFIN’s AI-powered tagging capabilities are designed to streamline the most time-intensive aspects of TSR and N-CSR compliance. By leveraging Active Intelligence iXBRL Tagging, DFIN can rapidly identify and apply the required iXBRL tags across TSR content - allowing teams to move faster, reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and shorten cycle times while maintaining the oversight required for confidence in compliance.

AI Peer Review in ActiveDisclosure

Active Intelligence™ Peer Analysis, embedded directly within ActiveDisclosure, delivers secure, disclosure-driven insights by comparing filings across true peer sets and equivalent SEC sections. Designed to cut through noise caused by formatting or structural differences, it helps teams identify disclosure gaps, trends, and anomalies while improving consistency and quality.

Active Intelligence™ Peer Analysis, embedded directly within ActiveDisclosure, delivers secure, disclosure-driven insights by comparing filings across true peer sets and equivalent SEC sections. Designed to cut through noise caused by formatting or structural differences, it helps teams identify disclosure gaps, trends, and anomalies while improving consistency and quality.

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Responsibilities & Governance AI - Built to Scale with Confidence

AI capabilities, built around data, to deliver innovation you can trust, not a bolt-on feature.

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Commitment to Responsible AI

  • Enterprise-grade security and privacy: Protects confidential draft disclosures during AI analysis

  • Human-in-the-loop oversight for trust: Keeps reviewers in control of all disclosure decisions

  • Transparent, opt-in adoption model: No AI actions without user intent or visibility

  • Purpose-built for regulated disclosure workflows: Designed to operate safely in regulated workflows

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AI Leadership and Advisory

  • AI Panel on Client Advisory Board (CAB): Ensure AI features are shaped by real SEC reporting team feedback
  • DFIN AI Advisory Committee: Provides ongoing oversight to ensure AI quality, risk management, and regulatory alignment
  • Executive oversight of AI strategy and risk: Clear leadership accountability for how AI is deployed and governed across DFIN products

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