Frequently asked questions

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Clear answers to common questions about automating business questionnaire responses with Cognaire Respond.

What is Cognaire Respond?

Respond is an AI-powered SaaS platform by Cognaire that helps organizations automate responses to complex questionnaires such as RFPs, compliance audits, due diligence, or security assessments. It combines your company’s knowledge with advanced AI to generate accurate, high-quality answers — fast.

Who is Cognaire Respond for?

Cognaire Respond is built for:

  • B2B SaaS and enterprise tech vendors
  • Legal and compliance teams
  • Sales and presales professionals handling RFPs
  • ESG and DDQ teams

If you regularly respond to structured documents with hundreds of questions, Respond can save you hundreds of hours.

What types of documents can I use it for?

Cognaire Respond supports:

  • RFPs and RFIs
  • Security questionnaires (e.g., SIG, CAIQ)
  • ESG questionaires
  • Due diligence questionaires

You can also customize workflows for other document types.

How does the AI generate answers?

Respond uses a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) engine:

  1. It pulls relevant knowledge from your approved content library.
  2. It uses chained large language models (LLMs) to draft and refine answers.
  3. The result is a high-quality, tailored response ready for subject matter expert review.

What’s the content library review and approval process?

Cognaire Respond includes a configurable multi-stage workflow:

  • Optional pre-approval by AI (with quality thresholds)
  • Human review and final approval
  • Audit trail of every action

You control who reviews what, with group-based permissions.

Is my content secure?

Yes. Cognaire Respond runs on secure, cloud-native architecture built on AWS, with encrypted storage, role-based access control, and audit logging. You retain ownership and control of all uploaded content.

Does Respond support multiple users and teams?

Absolutely. You can:

  • Create accounts and projects for different teams
  • Assign roles and permissions
  • Collaborate in real-time via shared answer grids
  • Manage multiple questionaires at once using a tabbed interface

Can it handle large questionnaires?

Yes. Respond is designed for scale — import and answer hundreds or thousands of questions in parallel without performance loss.

What makes Cognaire Respond different from other tools?

Unlike legacy tools that recycle old answers, Cognaire Respond:

  • Generates new, context-aware responses using your current content
  • Includes AI-driven completeness, tone, and risk scores
  • Supports modular workflows and custom content control
  • Offers collaborative editing in a spreadsheet-style interface

Automate answers. Accelerate results.

Streamline RFPs, due diligence, and compliance.