Interrogate what must be true
The Trustworthy Technology & Innovation Consortium (TTIC) develops practitioner-informed requirements that help investors examine whether consequential technology claims are supported by evidence and what unresolved operating requirements may mean for capital.
Most diligence asks whether the technology is promising. These resources help investors ask whether it can survive the environment in which it must actually operate.
These resources were developed in the course of supporting the investing purpose of a Catholic consortium whose work serves dozens of investing processes.
TTIC provides requirements. Investors own diligence and capital decisions. Companies own execution.
The investment loop
Find earlier. Verify deeper. Price risk. Allocate capital.
| Step | Investor activity | TTIC contribution and boundary |
|---|---|---|
| Find | Identify the opportunity and its material claims | TTIC resources surface consequential requirements that conventional diligence may miss. |
| Verify | Examine whether claims are supported | TTIC defines relevant evidence categories, operating questions, and cross-functional dependencies. |
| Price | Determine the economic meaning of unresolved requirements | Investors interpret findings and determine whether risk, cost, timing, or value assumptions change. TTIC does not price investments. |
| Allocate | Decide investment size, structure, timing, conditions, remediation funding, or viability | Investors own every capital decision. TTIC does not participate in investment committee decisions. |
Investor activity: Identify the opportunity and its material claims.
TTIC contribution and boundary: TTIC resources surface consequential requirements that conventional diligence may miss.
Investor activity: Examine whether claims are supported.
TTIC contribution and boundary: TTIC defines relevant evidence categories, operating questions, and cross-functional dependencies.
Investor activity: Determine the economic meaning of unresolved requirements.
TTIC contribution and boundary: Investors interpret findings and determine whether risk, cost, timing, or value assumptions change. TTIC does not price investments.
Investor activity: Decide investment size, structure, timing, conditions, remediation funding, or viability.
TTIC contribution and boundary: Investors own every capital decision. TTIC does not participate in investment committee decisions.
The value is not access to experts for its own sake. The value is whether better information changes the capital decision.
Resources
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- Published by
- Trustworthy Technology & Innovation Consortium (TTIC)
- Author
- By Sherri Douville, Founder & Chair, Trustworthy Technology & Innovation Consortium (TTIC)
- Originally published
- Last updated
- Canonical resource
- https://trustworthytechnologyinnovation.com/investor-diligence
Provenance: This resource is an original practitioner architecture from the Trustworthy Technology & Innovation Consortium (TTIC), developed to operationalize healthcare AI governance standards into institutional practice. External standards and source materials are cited separately.
Cite this resource
Sherri Douville. “Investor Diligence Resources for High-Consequence AI.” Trustworthy Technology & Innovation Consortium (TTIC), 2026. https://trustworthytechnologyinnovation.com/investor-diligence.