RFP and Compliance Questionnaire Automation for Financial Services Teams

Financial institutions face relentless volumes of regulatory questionnaires, outsourced service provider DDQs, high-stakes RFPs and vendor assurance checklists. Cognaire Respond automates these complex responses using governed corpus content, cutting risk exposure while dramatically accelerating turnaround cycles.

Built for the way financial institutions manage risk, governance and vendor obligations

Answers you can trust, built for your workflow

Cognaire Respond combines knowledge automation, semantic search, and real-time reasoning to ensure every question is answered accurately and aligned with your unique content and compliance guidelines.

Handle regulatory and oversight questionnaires with confidence

Banking, insurance and wealth teams must complete exhaustive regulatory forms (APRA, FCA, GDPR, PCI-DSS, SOX, Basel-aligned DDQs and internal assurance packs). Respond uses governed corpus content, topic-level AI rules and a multi-stage AI pipeline to produce accurate, traceable, regulator-safe responses.

Reduce SME load on risk, compliance and Information Security

Risk and compliance SMEs are routinely buried under repeated DDQs from customers, partners and internal oversight teams. Respond retrieves only approved documents through the corpus → domain → unit hierarchy, eliminating manual rewriting and freeing SMEs to focus on higher-value analysis.

Accelerate complex RFPs while preserving auditability

Large financial institutions expect complete, consistent answers across hundreds of technical, regulatory and operational questions. Respond reduces the effort involved in answering by as much as 80–90 percent through bulk AI jobs, Answer-Using-AI pipelines, and collaborative workflows.

Centralise and govern knowledge across business units

Large FS organisations often struggle with siloed documents across risk, IT, security, commercial and operations. Respond consolidates these into a structured, version-controlled corpus with topic/type filtering, approval workflows and a built-in AI reviewer.

How leading financial institutions stay ahead

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Reduction in manual effort for DDQs, regulatory assessments and customer assurance packs. Respond retrieves governed content and drafts answers in minutes.

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Faster turnaround time for annual due-diligence packages and vendor security reviews. Consistent, always-up-to-date documents from the corpus → domain → unit hierarchy.

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Saved per complex RFP or multi-section regulatory submission. SMEs spend time on validation, not boilerplate rewriting.

How financial services teams use Respond day-to-day

One workspace for every regulatory, security and RFP questionnaire

Respond consolidates regulatory forms, operational risk DDQs, APRA/FCA/PCI-DSS/ISO checklists, vendor assurance packs, and RFPs into a single workflow. Upload Excel, PDF, portal extracts or complex Word documents and let Respond organise questions into topics automatically.

AI-drafted answers based on governed, approved content

Answers are generated solely from your internal, controlled corpus materials – risk policies, security frameworks, internal controls, audit evidence, operating procedures, product documentation and compliance language.

Fit naturally into risk, compliance and InfoSec workflows

Risk leaders can assign questions to SMEs, track status, use automated quality analysis in Post-answer review, and ensure answers meet internal policies.

Auditability and traceability for every response

Every answer has history, change tracking, owner assignment and underlying referenced content.

CVs and case studies for consulting-style FS responses

For firms responding to insurance tenders, wealth-platform RFPs or transformation consulting bids, Respond supports CV and case-study management with version control and tailoring.

How it works for Financial Services & Insurance teams

Answers you can trust, built for your workflow

Cognaire Respond combines knowledge automation, semantic search, and real-time reasoning to ensure every question is answered accurately and aligned with your unique content and compliance guidelines.

Step 1: Import

Import your regulatory, RFP or DDQ questionnaires

Upload Excel, CSV, Word, PDF or paste portal content. Respond auto-detects questions, separates topics and prepares them for answering.

Step 2: Draft

Generate accurate, compliant answers using your governed corpus

Choose which domain/unit content to use (e.g. Security, Risk, Compliance, Insurance Ops). Respond retrieves relevant policy, control or product content and drafts answers through its two-stage AI pipeline.

Step 3: Complete

Review, validate and export

SMEs refine answers inside the collaborative grid or My Questions workspace. Post-answer review runs a deep AI quality and risk review, highlighting gaps, compliance issues and contradictions *before submission*. Export to Excel, PDF or Word in your client’s required format.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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

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