Questionnaire AssistSIG Core · Acme Corp.xlsx

187 / 210auto-answered from your evidence

23flagged for review

Minutesnot weeks

Do you enforce MFA for all privileged access?Yes, enforced via SSO · cited: Access Control Policy

Answered

Is customer data encrypted at rest and in transit?Yes. AES-256 everywhere · cited: Encryption Standard

Answered

Do you run annual penetration tests?Yes, last test Q4 2025 · cited: Pentest Evidence

Answered

How do you manage and disclose sub-processors?Drafted from your vendor register

Needs review

Every answer drawn from your evidence · you approveReview & export

Solution · Questionnaire Assist

Security questionnaires, answered in minutes.

Name: Compyl Questionnaire Assist
Brand: Compyl
Availability: InStock

Security questionnaire automation, both directions. SIG, SIG Lite or a customer review lands: Questionnaire Assist drafts every answer from your own evidence, cited. Assessing a vendor: it scores each answer against your control set and flags the issues to address.

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Minutes, not weeksEvery answer citedConsistent, every vendor

The problem

Questionnaires don’t scale, inbound or outbound

Answering hundred-question reviews by hand stalls deals, and assessing vendors one analyst at a time is slow and inconsistent.

Inbound: hundreds of questions

SIG and customer reviews run hundreds of questions. Answering them by hand stalls deals and burns out the team.

Outbound: inconsistent reviews

Every analyst rates vendor answers differently, and follow-up depends on who’s reading, so assessments aren’t comparable.

Reading answers is manual

Spotting a weak or contradictory vendor answer means reading every line and cross-checking SOC 2s and posture by hand.

How it works

One engine for both sides of the questionnaire

Whether you’re answering an assessment or running one, Compyl reads the questions, grounds in your data, and turns it into action.

Bring the questionnaire

Upload an inbound file, or send a vendor your set.

AI reads it

Parses every question, or every vendor answer.

Grounds in your data

Evidence, policies, control set, Third Party Insights.

Answers or scores

Drafts your answers, or rates each vendor reply.

Flags & hands off

Surfaces gaps; raise a task or risk, you approve.

When you’re assessed

Answer inbound questionnaires from your own evidence

SIG, SIG Lite, or a customer’s bespoke spreadsheet, upload it and Questionnaire Assist drafts an answer for every question from your evidence, prior responses, and policies, each one cited. Hundreds of questions become minutes of review.

Upload CSV, XLSX, DOCX or PDF, it reads the questions
Every answer drafted from your own evidence & cited
Reuses prior approved answers automatically
You review, adjust & export, in minutes

SIG Lite · auto-answeredUploaded 2 min ago · XLSX

Do you encrypt data at rest?

Drafted · citedYes. AES-256 across all stores. ↳ Encryption Standard v3 · SOC 2 CC6.7

Do you perform background checks?

Drafted · reusedYes, pre-hire, all employees. ↳ HR Security Policy · approved answer, Mar 2026

Hundreds of questions become minutes of reviewCited · reusable

When you assess vendors

Assess every vendor the same way, every time

Send the right question set to each vendor on a consistent cadence, and score every answer against your control set, so assessments are comparable, repeatable, and never depend on who’s reading.

Standard question sets & answer scoring
Consistent cadence per vendor & criticality
Tie each assessment to a control set
Comparable scores across your whole portfolio

Vendor assessments · this quarterSame control set · same scoring

All vendorsCriticalQuarterlyMonthly

OktaQuarterly · 84 questions · SOC 2 attached

AWSQuarterly · 84 questions · 3 issues flagged

DataBroker IncMonthly · critical · evidence requested

Comparable scores across your whole portfolioRepeatable

AI reads the answers

AI reads vendor answers and raises the issues

Compyl reads each vendor response, rates it for adequacy, and flags conflicts and gaps, cross-checking the answer against the vendor’s SOC 2, their Third Party Insights, and your own policies. Dive deeper where it matters; raise a task or risk in a click.

AI scores every answer against your control set
Flags conflicts vs SOC 2 & Third Party Insights
Surfaces missing evidence & weak answers
Raise tasks & risks, humans approve

AI review · AWS3 issues flagged

MFA enforced for all admin access?Vendor: “Yes, enforced org-wide” · conflicts with their SOC 2 exception (CC6.1)

Flag

Penetration test in the last 12 months?Vendor: “Yes, completed Q4 2025” · report not attached

Request evidence

Is data encrypted at rest?Vendor: “Yes, AES-256” · consistent with Third Party Insights

Strong

Are all sub-processors disclosed?“Partially disclosed” · 2 missing vs Third Party Insights

Flag

Raise 3 tasksAdd to riskDive deeper

Why Compyl is different

Built by CISOs, questionnaires connected to your whole program

Because Questionnaire Assist lives in the GRC platform that runs your program, answers come from your real evidence and vendor scores fuse with Third Party Insights, your posture, and your policies.

GRC that adapts to complexity

No-code configuration of question sets, scoring, workflows, and reports for every team, without an engineering ticket.

End-to-end, built to flex and scale

Governance, risk, compliance, and third-party risk as one connected source of truth behind every assessment.

No black box, all your data

125+ proprietary integrations and your evidence library mean answers and scores reflect everything, not one system.

Agentic AI that augments your team

Agentic AI drafts answers, scores vendors, and raises issues, with humans in the loop on every decision that matters.

Quantified risk in financial terms

Turn a flagged answer into a risk that FAIR models put in dollars, so the board sees business impact. New in 26.2.

Connected across your program

Assessments that feed the rest of Compyl

Questionnaire Assist doesn’t sit in a silo, it draws on and feeds the rest of your GRC platform.

Vendors

Third Party Insights

Vendor scores read alongside objective intelligence for a fuller risk picture.

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TPRM

Vendor Risk Management

Assessments feed each vendor’s risk profile and your TPRM program.

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Risk

Risk Management

Turn a flagged answer into a quantified risk in your register.

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Ask

Compyl Copilot

Ask Copilot about any assessment, in plain language.

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Framework coverage

Map every question set to the frameworks it covers

One control library, cross-mapped, so a single answer can satisfy requirements across multiple frameworks. Explore any framework below.

SOC 2 ISO 27001 ISO 42001 HIPAA GDPR PCI DSS NIST CSF NIST SP 800-53 MAS CCPA NIS2 70+ frameworks

SOC 2 Trust Center Legal Vendor Risk Management

Recognized by users on G2 · Rated a leader by the teams who use it G2 Momentum Leader, Summer 2026

Minutes

Inbound questionnaires answered, not weeks

Cited

Every answer drawn from your evidence

Consistent

Every vendor scored the same way

AI flags

Issues raised straight from vendor answers

What is Compyl Questionnaire Assist?

Questionnaire Assist is security-questionnaire automation built into the Compyl GRC platform, and it works both directions. When a SIG, SIG Lite, or customer security review lands in your inbox, it drafts an answer for every question from your own evidence and policies, so hundreds of questions become minutes of review. When you assess your own third parties, it sends consistent questionnaires, scores each vendor answer against your control set, and reads the responses alongside Third Party Insights and your security posture to flag the issues to address, with a human approving every decision.

How it works

How does questionnaire automation answer from your own data?

The answers already exist in your controls, policies and evidence. Questionnaire Assist finds them, drafts the response, and leaves the decision to a person.

Step	What happens
Import	Upload SIG, SIG Lite, CAIQ or a customer’s custom spreadsheet
Match	Each question is matched to your controls, policies and previously approved answers
Draft	A response is drafted from that evidence, with the source cited
Review	Owners approve, edit or reject; every change is recorded
Reuse	Approved answers become the source for the next questionnaire
Outbound	The same engine scores the questionnaires you send to vendors and flags the issues

FAQ

Questionnaire Assist questions, answered

What is Compyl Questionnaire Assist?

Questionnaire Assist is security-questionnaire automation built into the Compyl GRC platform. It answers inbound questionnaires (SIG, SIG Lite, customer reviews) by drafting responses from your own evidence and policies, and powers outbound vendor assessments where AI scores answers consistently and flags the issues to address. A human reviews and approves.

How does it answer inbound questionnaires?

Upload a questionnaire file (CSV, XLSX, DOCX, or PDF). Questionnaire Assist reads the questions and drafts an answer for each from your evidence, prior responses, and policies, citing the source. You review, adjust, and export, turning hundreds of questions into minutes of review.

How does Compyl assess my third-party vendors?

Send the right questionnaire to each vendor on a consistent cadence, then let AI rate every answer against a control set. Compyl combines the vendor’s responses with Third Party Insights, your security posture, and your internal policies to score the vendor, dive deeper on focus areas, and surface gaps.

Can Compyl read vendor answers and raise issues automatically?

Yes. AI reads each vendor response, rates it for adequacy, and flags conflicts or gaps, for example, when an answer contradicts the vendor’s SOC 2 or its Third Party Insights. From a flag you can raise a task or a risk, with a human approving the decision.

How does this make vendor assessments scalable and consistent?

Questionnaire Assist standardizes question sets, answer scoring, and cadence so every vendor is assessed the same way, and automates the manual reading and follow-up, so a small team can assess far more vendors, accurately, without it bogging them down.

How accurate are AI questionnaire answers?

Each draft is grounded in your own evidence, policies and prior approved responses, and cites its source so a reviewer can verify it. A person reviews, adjusts and approves every answer before export.

Is my data used to train models?

No. Questionnaire Assist drafts answers from your own Compyl data inside your tenant, and your data is never used to train models.

GRC your way

Make questionnaires a strength, not a bottleneck

See how Questionnaire Assist answers what lands in your inbox and runs consistent, AI-scored vendor assessments, grounded in your own data.

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Last reviewed September 2026 by the Compyl GRC team