Answers you can prove.
citeproof answers vendor security questionnaires from your actual evidence — policies, SOC 2 reports, pen test summaries — and cites the exact source for every answer. And when that evidence changes, it tells you precisely which past answers no longer hold.
Q14. Is customer data encrypted at rest?
Yes. All customer data is encrypted at rest using AES-256 via the cloud provider's KMS.
Cited · SOC 2 Type II · §4.2Q22. Do you enforce a formal access-review cadence?
Answer cited an earlier Access Control Policy that has since changed.
Outdated · re-verify against Policy v3Security questionnaires don't scale
The same work, redone every quarter — and no way to trust what an AI hands back.
Spreadsheet groundhog day
The same 200 questions, reformatted by every vendor, answered from scratch each time.
SME time drain
Every review drags a security engineer back into Slack to reconstruct an answer they've already given.
Unverifiable AI answers
Generic AI tools generate confident text with no way to check what it's actually based on.
Every answer traceable to its source
Four things citeproof does that a generic AI answer generator can't.
Answer lineage & drift detection
Change a document and citeproof automatically shows which previously answered questions are now invalid — down to the exact cited passage, not just the whole file. Nothing goes stale silently.
Cited answers
Every answer links to the exact document and section it came from.
Honest gaps
No supporting evidence? It's flagged as a gap — never a confident guess.
Evidence versioning
Document versions are immutable; each citation pins the exact version it used.
When evidence changes, you know exactly what breaks
Re-upload a policy or a fresh pen test report and citeproof compares it against every answer that cited it. Only the answers whose specific cited passage actually changed get flagged — the rest stay green.
- Passage-level precision, not "the whole doc changed"
- Every citation pinned to an immutable document version
- Nothing you've signed off on quietly goes out of date
Q7. Latest external penetration test date?
Cited · Pen Test 2024 · p.1Q19. Do you use an accredited testing vendor?
Cited · Pen Test 2024 · p.2 (unchanged)Q31. Were all critical findings remediated?
Cited · Pen Test 2024 · p.6Evidence in, cited answers out
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Upload your evidence
Policies, SOC 2 report, pen test summary — once.
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Drop in the questionnaire
The vendor's spreadsheet as-is — no reformatting.
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Get cited answers
Each answer links to its source; unsupported ones are flagged, not guessed.
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Stay current
When evidence changes later, lineage flags the answers that no longer hold.
Not another AI-questionnaire wrapper
Generic AI tools
- Plausible-sounding text, no source
- Can't tell you when it's guessing
- Answers drift silently as evidence changes
- When a document changes, no idea which answers break
citeproof
- Every answer cites its source document
- No evidence → explicit flagged gap
- Citations pinned to immutable versions
- When a document changes, shows which past answers are now outdated
Questions about answering questionnaires
What is a vendor security questionnaire?
A vendor security questionnaire is a set of questions a prospective customer sends before they will buy from you, covering how you handle encryption, access control, incident response, business continuity and subprocessors. They usually arrive as a spreadsheet of dozens to hundreds of rows, and the deal does not move until they are answered.
How does citeproof answer security questionnaires?
You upload your evidence once — security policies, SOC 2 reports, penetration test summaries. For each question, citeproof retrieves the passages in those documents that actually address it and drafts an answer that cites the specific document and passage it used. Answers are drafted from your uploaded evidence, not from a model's general knowledge of what a security policy usually says.
What happens if there is no evidence for a question?
It is flagged as a gap instead of answered. An unsupported answer sent to a customer's security team is worse than an honest "we need to document this" — so when nothing in your evidence supports an answer, citeproof will not invent one.
What is answer drift, and how is it detected?
Answer drift is what happens when a policy is updated and the answers you already sent, based on the old wording, quietly stop being true. Every citation citeproof creates is pinned to the exact version of the passage it used. When you upload a new version of a document, it compares passages and flags precisely which previously answered questions relied on text that changed — rather than telling you to re-check everything.
Which file formats are supported?
Evidence documents can be PDF, plain text or Markdown. Questionnaires can be uploaded as an .xlsx spreadsheet in whatever layout the customer sent it, or pasted in as text.
How is this different from using ChatGPT or a generic AI tool?
A general-purpose model will produce a fluent, plausible answer whether or not it has any basis in your documents, and it cannot tell you which of those it just did. citeproof cites a source for every answer, flags questions it has no evidence for, and tracks which answers break when the underlying evidence changes.
Does citeproof replace a security or compliance team?
No. Every answer is a draft for a person to review, edit and approve. The work it removes is finding the right passage and transcribing it into someone else's spreadsheet — not the judgement about what your company should be claiming.
Is citeproof available now?
citeproof is pre-launch and onboarding early users directly rather than through public signup. If answering questionnaires is currently costing your team days per deal, get in touch via the contact section below.
Stop letting questionnaires stall your deals
Every vendor security questionnaire is days of work standing between you and a signed contract. If you want to answer them in a fraction of the time — with every answer backed to real evidence — reach out.