Product & Innovation

At Mintz Group, Innovation is Just the Start

Today, the corporate risk landscape—from screening executive candidates to conducting due diligence on potential third parties or acquisition targets—is more complex than ever. Artificial Intelligence and other technologies play an increasingly integral role in navigating that landscape.

Mintz Group was founded more than 30 years ago, at the beginning of the Digital Age. In the years since then, our approach to helping clients resolve uncertainty and manage risk has evolved with each advance in data access, management, analytics and connectivity. But even though technology has changed, the fundamentals of sound research and analysis—maintaining a healthy skepticism, following leads and looking below the surface—are still the same since our founding.

At Mintz Group, technology informs what we do today and how we are preparing for tomorrow:

A range of solutions for a range of client needs: We use technology to provide best-in-class solutions for our clients, and it is central to how our teams conduct every assignment to help clients meet their strategic goals.

Many companies in our space fall into two distinct categories: either traditional investigations and due diligence companies with limited technology solutions, or data aggregators with easy-to-use platforms but little actual due diligence or investigative experience. 

But screening, intelligence gathering and analysis often fall outside neat categories. Some client needs are a good fit for automated solutions. Other times—when information is ambiguous, offline or requires a discreet conversation—the input of an experienced investigator is essential. Mintz Group’s combination of technology offerings and hands-on, global expertise allows us to provide solutions that are simple and fast when they can be—and scale up to boots-on-the-ground intelligence gathering when needed. 

In-house innovation capabilities: Due diligence, risk analysis and litigation support are constantly coming up against new challenges, whether how to analyze the ever-increasing volume of online content, process new types of unstructured data, or ensure compliance with new regulations regarding data privacy. Mintz Group’s industry-leading Product Innovation department brings expert investigators, software developers, product managers, designers and data analysts together to create proprietary tools that meet these challenges and provide faster, more accurate and more insightful results to our clients. We augment our in-house innovation with carefully curated and vetted partnerships with firms at the cutting edge of research technology.  

Client service and internal efficiency: As part of our efforts to ensure seamless client experience, we developed and refined an internal workflow and research platform—leveraging years of experience and client feedback—that helps us ensure that our work is accurate, comprehensive and efficient, while providing clients with flexible audit and reporting capabilities. Our state-of-the-art online portal allows clients and third parties—such as candidates or counterparties being vetted—to seamlessly and securely exchange information with the Mintz Group team.

A focus on security and privacy: Privacy and security are integral to our product development approach. We understand that clients, candidates, and third parties trust us with personal and sensitive information—and we take this responsibility seriously. Data privacy is built into everything we do, and internal controls help ensure the data we receive is only used for its intended purpose. The Mintz Group is SOC 2 Type II certified and complies with best-in-class cybersecurity and data privacy protocols.