Diligent Entities

What it is

Diligent Entities is the entity management product inside Diligent’s governance, risk and compliance suite. It began as Blueprint OneWorld, which Diligent acquired in 2017. It keeps one permissioned record per legal entity: officers and directors, ownership, signing authorities, registered details, and filing obligations, which Diligent says it tracks across 100+ jurisdictions. Structure charts and statutory registers are generated from that record. Diligent itself is private-equity owned. Insight Partners took it private in 2016, and Clearlake Capital and Blackstone invested in 2020. It is still buying companies: 3rdRisk, a third-party risk platform, joined in January 2026.

The buyer is a corporate secretary or legal ops lead at a group with hundreds of subsidiaries, often one that already runs board meetings on Diligent Boards. Diligent’s own Fortive case study describes 300+ entities centralized in one record. That is the scale the product is built for.

What changed in October 2026

The October 14, 2026 release is why this page exists now. It moves Entities from a record you look things up in to a record other teams can query.

• MCP connector for Claude. The Diligent Entities MCP connector lets approved AI apps, Claude included, answer plain-English questions about directors, shareholders, and entity details straight from the record. Access follows each user’s existing Entities permissions, an administrator has to enable it, and setup goes through your Customer Success Manager. The launch post describes reading and answering only. It describes no writes. Diligent pitches it at tax teams checking ownership for Pillar Two, treasury, and finance, so legal stops being the help desk for “who are the directors of this sub?” Background: MCP server explained.
• AI spreadsheet import. The Entities AI Assistant reads an uploaded Excel register, proposes column-to-field mappings, and produces an action plan you approve. Nothing is written until you confirm it. Company name, registration number, and country are mandatory fields.
• Ownership Map, now GA. One view shows a selected entity’s parents, its subsidiaries, and its parents’ other subsidiaries. You need Structure Store active and the Export Group Structure permission to use it.
• Modernized workflows. Appointment changes, new company and individual records, statutory documents, and register reports now run in a new interface, opened with a “Go to modernized Entities” link inside the classic one.

Pricing reality

Diligent does not publish prices on its own site. The one public price list is its AWS Marketplace listing, “Diligent Entity & Subsidiary Management”. Its 12-month contracts are Starter at $12,000, Essentials at $49,000, Pro at $82,500, and Pro Plus at $126,500. The listing does not say what each tier includes or how many entities it covers, and it states “No Refunds”.

Negotiated deals land lower than the list ladder implies. Vendr’s marketplace data puts the median Diligent contract at $23,800/year, with the top of its observed range at $45,792. Bundling with Diligent Boards and signing multi-year are the usual levers for that discount. Budget $15,000-$50,000/year for a mid-size group, and expect the high end once you need hundreds of entities plus the AI features.

For contrast, Athennian publishes $25,000/year for 100 entities. At list price, Diligent’s Starter tier undercuts it, and its Essentials tier costs about twice as much.

Best for

Corporate secretaries and legal ops leads at enterprise groups with 150 or more entities across many jurisdictions, especially where the board already meets on Diligent Boards. The Boards link carries entity documents into approvals and e-signature, and Data Room handles secure sharing. The October release also makes it the strongest pick when tax, treasury, or finance want to query entity data from Claude without logging into a legal system.

Alternatives and when to pick them

• Athennian — the specialist challenger with published pricing. Pick it when you are not on Diligent Boards, want transparent per-entity economics, and run 50-500 entities.
• CSC Entity Management — the other volume incumbent. Pick it when you want registered-agent service, filings, and software from one provider. Its starting price is listed at $150 per entity per year.
• DiliTrust — the fastest-growing entrant in the segment. Pick it when entities are one of four modules you need in one platform, next to contracts, board, and matters.
• Discern — pick it when the real job is US Secretary of State compliance: registered agent, annual reports, and Delaware franchise tax, without a governance platform.
• Xakia — pick it when entity management is one module beside matters and intake for a small legal team with dozens of entities.

If none fit, the honest interim is a registered agent for filings and a maintained register with a named owner per row.

Watch-outs

• List pricing hides what each tier buys. The AWS ladder runs from $12,000 to $126,500 with no feature or entity-count mapping. Guard: get the tier contents, entity cap, and AI-feature inclusion written into the order form against your current entity count plus 24 months of expected growth.
• The MCP connector exposes whatever your permissions allow. Answers inherit Entities permissions, so permission groups that were sloppy but harmless while only legal logged in now decide what finance sees through Claude. Guard: audit permission groups before the administrator enables the connector, and test with a deliberately restricted user account.
• Spreadsheet import has hard input limits. It rejects nested tables and macros, and it requires a registration number for every company. Guard: flatten your register and backfill registration numbers before migration. Review every generated action plan rather than bulk-approving it.
• Two interfaces are live at once. Classic and modernized Entities coexist, so training and SOPs can drift. Guard: confirm the workflows you run most are in the modernized interface, and write your SOPs for one interface only.
• The public review base is thin. G2 shows 4.2/5 from 7 reviews, and Capterra shows a single review with a 3.0/5 ease-of-use score. Guard: ask for two reference customers at your entity count and jurisdiction mix before you sign.
• Bundle discounts deepen suite lock-in. The cheapest Entities price usually comes attached to Boards and a multi-year term. Guard: price Entities standalone as well, and get full register and document export terms in writing.

For where this sits in a wider build, see the mid-market legal ops stack and best MCP tools for legal ops.