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title: "Checklist for AI-assisted verification of offer and disclosure documents"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/capital-markets-and-securities-ecm-dcm-and-disclosure/ai-assisted-verification-checklist"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a4-ai-assisted-verification-checklist"
area_id: "A4"
kind: "checklist"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-17"
---

# Checklist for AI-assisted verification of offer and disclosure documents

> Step-by-step controls for using an AI tool to match statements in a prospectus or other disclosure document to source material, so that AI speeds verification without weakening the due diligence defence.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/capital-markets-and-securities-ecm-dcm-and-disclosure/ai-assisted-verification-checklist  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-17

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## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Practice area: [Capital Markets & Securities — ECM/DCM and Disclosure](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/capital-markets-and-securities-ecm-dcm-and-disclosure.md)
- Jurisdictions: Australia
- AI level: Yellow. AI can help in set ways. A lawyer checks specific points before use.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-17
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-17 against the 3 authorities it cites, for Australia.

## When to use it

Use when the DDC or the legal adviser proposes to use an AI tool in verifying a prospectus, PDS, scheme booklet or similar document. Not for continuous disclosure announcements, which are covered by the disclosure policy.

## How AI may be used

AI may propose matches between statements and sources and flag gaps. Each verification note is confirmed by a person who has opened and read the source.

**AI may:**

- Split the draft document into numbered statements and propose candidate source passages with document and page references
- Flag statements with no candidate source, inconsistent figures or unsupported superlatives
- Re-run comparisons after each draft turn and list changed statements

**AI must not:**

- Must not mark any statement verified
- Must not be treated as a source; its summaries cannot support a verification note
- Must not be used on pre-offer information outside an approved, access-controlled environment

**The lawyer checks:**

- Every verification note names a human verifier who read the source
- Sample of AI-supported matches rechecked and error rate recorded
- DDC report describes the AI use and its limits

## Authorities

- [Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) ss 728, 731, 733](https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A00818/latest/text)
- [Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 1043A (insider trading)](https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A00818/latest/text)
- [Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules 2015 rr 4.1.3, 9.1, 37.1](https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/sl-2015-0244)

## Full text and drafting notes

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*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*