Due Diligence

Overview A Fortune 500 renewable energy company was struggling to keep pace with its growing network of vendors and suppliers across India. Their verification and onboarding process relied heavily on manual reviews, scattered workflows, and inconsistent checks. This slowed down operations and left room for risk. By adopting OnGrid’s Third-Party Due Diligence framework, the company…

Vendor onboarding often feels like a paperwork-heavy formality. Documents are collected, bank details are verified, contracts are signed—and business moves on.  But in reality, vendor onboarding is one of the most critical trust decisions an organisation makes. Vendors don’t just supply goods or services. They gain access to money, data, systems, facilities, and sometimes even…

Most enterprises don’t ignore vendor and third-party risk. They believe they’re doing it right. Files exist. Forms are filled. Vendors are “approved.” Somewhere in a shared drive or procurement system, there’s proof that due diligence happened. And for a while, that feels reassuring. Until it doesn’t. A regulator asks questions that can’t be answered cleanly.…

Renewable energy projects are often spoken about in the language of optimism—clean power, sustainability goals, climate commitments, and future-ready infrastructure. But anyone who has actually worked on a solar park, wind farm, green hydrogen unit, or transmission-heavy renewable rollout knows the truth: behind every megawatt installed is a long, complex web of vendors, contractors, suppliers,…

Picture this. You’re sitting in a boardroom, about to sign a multi-crore partnership deal.  The pitch was perfect.  The deck was glossy.  The numbers looked promising.  The founder spoke with charisma. Everyone in the room is excited. But there’s one truth that rarely gets said out loud: Business gets risky the moment you start trusting…

With the world more connected than ever through modern commerce, supply chains today are more intricate than ever. Goods travel between cities, nations, and continents before they arrive in the hands of final consumers. Along the way, several vendors—manufacturers, distributors, logistics companies, and subcontractors—have a key role to play in making sure products are distributed…

In today’s hyper-connected economy, businesses don’t operate in isolation. Your organization’s performance depends not only on internal teams, but increasingly on a web of vendors, suppliers, contractors, partners, and service providers. While this ecosystem enables scale and specialization, it also introduces a serious threat: vendor fraud. Often operating silently, vendor fraud can manifest as inflated…

Growing through franchising is typically regarded as a quicker method of building a brand and providing aspiring business owners with the assurance of a tested business model. Behind the thrill of new logos outside stores and lofty revenue estimates, however, is a key phase most companies take for granted, due diligence. Franchise due diligence is…

In 2025, due diligence isn’t what it used to be. Once upon a time, checking an official ID, scanning a credit report, or calling a reference might have been enough to confirm someone’s trustworthiness. But today? That’s barely scratching the surface. We live in an era of synthetic identities, deepfake scams, and sophisticated shell operations.…