The AI-first back office

A raise, an acquisition, a property closing, a clinical trial, an audit — strip away the specifics and every one of them reduces to documents: who can see them, who signed them, what's inside them, and what has to happen next.

Today that machinery is scattered across half a dozen tools that don't talk to each other. The data room is one product, the signature another, the contracts live in email, the books in a fourth system. Every handoff between them is a person with a download button. The back office is the last part of the company still run by copy-paste.

At the highest-stakes moments in a company's life, teams put their most sensitive documents — the financials, the cap table, the contracts — on Peony, under real access control. 8,000+ teams run on the platform today, and $44.7B+ in client assets have moved through it.

Once the documents of record live on Peony, everything downstream of those documents belongs there too. That's why the platform already spans the workflow: diligence, contracts, e-signature, secure sharing, and a permanent knowledgebase vault are live today — not a roadmap, a product.

The last generation of back-office software made documents easier to store and find. It never touched the actual work — reading them, answering questions about them, acting on what they say. That's the part AI collapses.

In an AI-first back office, every page is understood the moment it's uploaded. Diligence questions are answered from the source, with citations. The NDA drafts itself and gates the documents it governs. A signed contract carries its own obligations, renewals, and line items into the books. The unit of work stops being “a document to manage” and becomes “an outcome delivered.”