Before DiligenceWorks, Scot spent years watching deal teams accept sponsor claims at face value. Working in investment banking technology at BMO Capital Markets, where he built middle-office systems and IFRS 9 infrastructure, he saw the same pattern repeat: a sponsor presents a number, the analyst runs it through a model, and nobody interrogates whether the number was real in the first place.
That gap between "what the sponsor said" and "what the evidence supports" became the founding thesis of DiligenceWorks. Every sponsor claim is a claim, not a fact. The platform treats submitted materials the way a forensic accountant treats a set of books: assume nothing, verify everything, flag discrepancies by materiality.
Scot designed the adversarial analysis pipeline, the single-tenant deployment architecture, and the evidence-scoring methodology that powers the platform. His earlier work at NodeRelate, building master data platforms for complex entity relationships, shaped his approach to cross-referencing claims against multiple data sources simultaneously.
He leads the technical team from Thailand, where DiligenceWorks maintains its development operations while the company is headquartered in Singapore.
DRAFT: Scot to review and adjust. Add specific deal examples, quantify years of experience, refine the NodeRelate and BMO descriptions, add any certifications or education details.
Areas of Expertise
Adversarial deal analysis methodology
AI governance and responsible AI deployment
Platform architecture and single-tenant infrastructure
Data sovereignty and self-hosted enterprise systems