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Stop chasing stale answers across static libraries.

Respond turns RFPs, security questionnaires, ESG assessments and DDQs into structured workflows that generate client-ready answers from your source material, with clear ownership, SME review and risk controls built in.

62%

faster RFP turnaround after the first 90 days.

+30%

more client-ready answers by the second RFP, as the corpus improves.

100s

of questions managed through one response workspace.

24hours

setup time if you have an urgent submission.

See it in action

Watch Respond turn a 200-question RFP into a reviewable draft.

A four-minute walk-through of question ingestion, AI-assisted answering from your content library, and the review workflow before anything leaves the business.

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How it works

From complex questionnaire to client-ready answers.

Bring in spreadsheets, unstructured copy-pastes from portals or Word content. Respond extracts the questions, organises the work, generates complete answers from selected source material, routes exceptions to owners, highlights risk and helps the team export a clean final response.

  • Capture real-world formats
    Import Excel, CSV and multi-tab workbooks, or paste text copied from Word documents and client or procurement portals. Respond turns the request into a structured question grid.
  • Plan before generating
    Analyse the question set to spot buyer priorities, response risks, knowledge gaps and questions that need specialist input before answer generation begins.
  • Generate answers from approved content
    Generate answers from selected product, security, policy, case study and compliance material. Tuned corpus content and Language Rules help produce client-ready responses, with the source material visible for review.
  • Assign owners and SMEs
    Give every question a clear owner, status and topic. SMEs work from focused queues instead of digging through spreadsheets, inboxes and shared folders.
  • Review the answers that need attention
    Completeness, risk and compliance indicators help bid, security and legal reviewers focus on weak, sensitive, unsupported or strategically important answers before they reach the customer.
  • Check quality before submission
    Run a response-level review to find contradictions, missing content, inconsistent messaging and risky claims across the completed questionnaire, so final review becomes targeted assurance rather than line-by-line rewriting.
  • Improve the source library
    Human edits, review findings and low-completeness answers show where approved content is thin, outdated or missing, so future questionnaires generate stronger answers with less intervention.
  • Export for the buyer
    Move reviewed answers into the required submission format, from spreadsheet-style responses to procurement, ESG, standards-based and open formats.
Acme 2026 — Security Review · 142 questions
98% drafted · 34 in review

Q44.Describe your data retention policy for customer content.

Customer data is retained for 90 days after contract termination. Backups are encrypted at rest (AES-256) and purged on a 30-day rolling schedule. A formal retention exception process is documented in policy SEC-3.2.
0.91 policy:security §3.2 prior:caiq-2025 Q44 Owner: Priya S.

Q45.What is your incident response SLA for critical severity events?

Critical incidents are acknowledged within 15 minutes and communicated to the customer within 1 hour. A full root-cause analysis is delivered within 5 business days.
0.72 policy:ir §2.1 Needs SME review

Q46.Do you support customer-managed encryption keys (BYOK)?

Yes. Customer-managed keys are supported via AWS KMS on Enterprise plans. Key rotation policies are customer-controlled; envelope encryption is used end-to-end.
0.94 policy:encryption §1.4 Owner: Alex T.
Questionnaire families

Built for the response work that slows deals down.

The workflow

Import. Generate. Review. Submit.

A structured response process for teams that want more than a static answer library. Respond helps generate complete, client-ready answers from governed content, while keeping SMEs, reviewers and final approvers focused on the questions that need judgment, context or escalation.

1Import

Bring in the questionnaire

Upload a spreadsheet, paste portal text, or bring in RFP, security, DDQ or ESG content from the format the buyer supplied. Respond extracts questions, keeps sections together and creates a structured workspace for the team.

2Generate

Create complete answers at scale

Generate answers from selected product, policy, security, compliance and prior-response material. With a well-maintained corpus and tuned Language Rules, Respond is designed to produce complete, client-ready answers for the majority of questions — often 70–90% of a mature questionnaire set — with human review focused on exceptions, sensitive topics and strategic responses.

3Review

Focus review where it matters

Use completeness, risk and compliance signals to prioritise the questions that need human judgment. Route exceptions to SMEs, refine strategic or sensitive answers, and track progress by topic, status and person instead of chasing spreadsheet comments.

4Submit

Check quality and export

Run a final review for missing content, contradictions, weak claims and sensitive answers. Resolve flagged items, approve the response set, then export into the format needed for the buyer or procurement process.

Why this matters

Move beyond static answer libraries.

Legacy platforms use static libraries that cause a maintenance and accuracy nightmare. Past questions rarely match new questions one-hundred percent. Respond lets teams maintain approved source material, then generate tailored, client-ready answers with ownership, review and progress tracking built into the workflow.

Static answer library

  • Answers decay across old Q&A pairs
  • New questions depend on manual search
  • SMEs rewrite the same answers repeatedly
  • Progress lives in spreadsheets and inboxes

Cognaire Respond

  • Source updates improve every future answer
  • Tailored responses are generated from approved content
  • SMEs focus on exceptions, gaps and strategic answers
  • Owners, statuses and quality checks stay visible
FAQ

Your questions, answered.

What formats can Respond import?

Respond imports Excel spreadsheets, CSV files, multi-tab workbooks and pasted text from Word documents, PDFs and buyer portals. It extracts questions, preserves useful structure and organises the work into a response workspace.

Where does the AI get its information?

Respond generates answers from the content sources your team selects, such as product documents, security policies, prior responses, compliance material, case studies and approved boilerplate. It is designed to use your approved material, not public internet content.

Will the AI make unsupported claims?

Respond reduces that risk by anchoring answers in selected approved content and surfacing responses that need review. If the source material is thin or missing, the workflow exposes the gap so the team can resolve it before submission.

Do SMEs still control the final answer?

Yes. Respond is designed to generate accurate, well-supported answers, and SMEs and reviewers remain in control of what is submitted. They can approve, edit, reject or rewrite answers, while bid managers track ownership, status and review progress across the questionnaire.

How do SMEs contribute without accessing everything?

SMEs can work from focused queues of assigned questions across active questionnaires. They review and edit only the items relevant to their expertise, without needing to navigate the full response workspace or content library.

Can Respond handle security questionnaires like SIG and CAIQ?

Yes. Respond supports SIG, CAIQ, vendor risk reviews and custom security assessments. Security answers are generated from policies, certifications, architecture documentation and other approved evidence.

How is Respond different from ChatGPT or Copilot?

Chat tools can help write isolated answers. Respond manages the full response process: questionnaire import, bulk answer generation from governed content, ownership, SME review, progress tracking, quality checks, source context and export.

How is Respond different from a static answer library?

Legacy RFP automation tools use static libraries that force teams to maintain many canned answers. Respond lets teams maintain source documents and generate tailored, source-backed answers from them, so new questions do not depend only on finding the closest historical answer.

What happens when the answer is not in the content library?

Missing content becomes visible as a knowledge gap. The team can answer manually for the current questionnaire, then improve the approved source library so future questionnaires generate stronger answers with less intervention.

How does Respond protect sensitive response data?

Respond uses access controls, encryption, tenant isolation and data residency options. Your content is not used to train external models. Regional deployments can be arranged when data needs to stay in a specific jurisdiction — ask us about available options.

See how Respond handles your next questionnaire.

Bring a redacted RFP, security review or DDQ. We will show how questions are captured, answered from approved content, prioritised for review, checked for risk and exported for submission.