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The security questionnaire arrives last and decides the close date.
Every enterprise deal ships one: SIG, CAIQ, SOC 2, ISO 27001, a VPAT, the buyer’s own spreadsheet. It lands late, with the people who have least time, and every answer has been written before.
Built for sales engineering, security and GRC, the proposal desk, and revenue leadership.
Add the RFP queue next and it draws on the same control answers.
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Security questionnaires
First workflow live
SIG, CAIQ and the buyer’s own spreadsheet, answered from the trust evidence already published.
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Enterprise RFPs and technical narrative
Same answers, second document
Architecture and roadmap answers reused, not rewritten for each buyer.
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Live deal questions
Once the foundation holds
The AE gets the answer on the call instead of routing it to the deal desk.
- Security
- Product
- Proposal desk
- Account teams
- Deal desk
Tribble Brain
- KnowledgeEvery approved answer, with the document it came from
- GovernanceAn owner, a version and a review state on each one
- AutomationThe same answer, wherever in the business it is asked for
- Security and complianceSOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, penetration tests, subprocessor list
- ArchitectureTenancy model, data residency, SSO and SCIM, API limits
- Product and roadmapWhat ships today, what is committed, and what is not
- Pricing logicPackaging, metering, discount bands, renewal and uplift terms
- Customer proofNamed references, outcomes, who is reference-able and for what
- Prior responsesSIG and CAIQ answers, each with the owner who approved it
Fed fromCRM · Confluence · Drive and SharePoint · Slack and Teams · trust centre · prior RFP library
The technical answer already exists. Somebody gave it last week, to a different buyer, in a thread nobody else can find.
Where the enterprise deal actually slows down.
Not for want of a product that works. The technical answer exists and somebody on the team has already given it. Usually last week, to a different buyer, in a thread nobody can find.
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The security questionnaire queue
SIG, CAIQ, SOC 2, ISO 27001, VPATs and every buyer’s bespoke spreadsheet — arriving late, in a format nobody chose, against a close date already in the forecast.
The control evidence is written, approved and current. Finding which version applies to this buyer is the work.
A solved problem re-solved on every deal, by the people with the least slack.
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The RFP and technical diligence desk
Long RFPs with architecture, integration, scalability and roadmap sections, scored by people who will compare your answer against three competitors’ on the same page.
Sales engineering is the constraint, and the constraint gets spent on questions that recur rather than on the part of the bid that actually differentiates.
SE time is the scarcest thing in the company and it’s going to repeat work.
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Answers in the live deal
Between the documents, an AE is on a call being asked something about security posture, a competitor, or a roadmap commitment — and the honest answer is “I will get back to you.”
The approved answer usually exists. It’s in a thread, a deck, a past RFP, or in an SE’s head, and none of those are available at the moment the buyer asks.
Every “I will get back to you” is a day added to the cycle.
What Tribble does about it.
One approved answer per control, with its evidence attached. Every questionnaire you clear makes the next faster.
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Load it
Control sets, prior questionnaires and product docs arrive with permissions and versions intact.
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Answer from it
Drafted before the questionnaire arrives. Each answer shows the control, the evidence, and when it was last tested.
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Keep what you learn
A security reviewer’s edit becomes next time’s answer. They see the 10–20% that is genuinely new.
The documents an enterprise software company actually files.
Same route for all of them. Follow one.
- Enterprise RFPs and RFIs Architecture, integration, scalability and roadmap sections, scored against competitors. RFP automation →
- Security questionnaires SIG, CAIQ, SOC 2, ISO 27001, VPATs and buyer-specific assessments, with cited control language. Security questionnaires →
- Vendor risk and procurement diligence Third-party risk packs, residual-risk narratives, control evidence, onboarding questionnaires. DDQ automation →
- Technical narrative responses Architecture and approach write-ups where the buyer wants prose, with a source behind every claim. Longform →
- Live deal questions The standing Q&A an AE needs mid-call — security posture, competitive position, what is committed on the roadmap. Portal & chat intake →
Chat tools draft. Your security team won’t sign a draft.
The output has to survive a reviewer who is paid to be suspicious of it.
| Generic AI | Tribble | |
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| Answers from | Public training data | Your control set and product documentation |
| Control language | Paraphrased, plausibly | Cited to the control, with its owner |
| Customer and deal context | Staff paste it into consumer tools | Permissioned on intake |
| Security sign-off | Nobody can approve the output | The reviewer checks a citation |
| Roadmap and competitive claims | Invented confidently | Only what has been approved to say |
| Gets better with use | Every prompt starts over | Reviewer edits fold back in |
| Cost as usage grows | Rises with seats | Reused answers, not re-derived |
What we would measure.
Agreed up front, and judged against your current close times.
Proof.
Salesforce, UiPath, Sprout Social, Snowflake, Cisco, OutSystems and PandaDoc all run on Tribble. If you want a reference call with the difficult questions left in, ask for one.
The first engagement: one workflow, four to six weeks.
One team, one questionnaire type. We baseline today’s turnaround before changing anything.
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Connect · week 0
Scope and owners named. Sources ingested from prior RFPs and security questionnaires, your control set, product documentation and the answers already sitting in Slack. We measure how the work runs today first.
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Build · weeks 1–2
Assembled from prior questionnaires and your control set. Security owners approve it.
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Pilot · weeks 3–4
Live on a real security questionnaire. We tune against what the reviewers change.
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Prove · weeks 5–6
Measured against the baseline: time to a returned questionnaire, and its effect on close dates.
What people ask
A few are worth asking your own security reviewers first.
Our security team won’t accept a paraphrase of a control. How is that handled?
They shouldn’t accept one, and the design agrees with them. Answers come only from approved control language with the source document, its owner and its last-changed date attached, so the reviewer is checking a citation rather than judging a rewrite. Anything below the confidence threshold or touching control language routes to security before it ships.
Is this a replacement for our SEs?
No, and the measure we would agree with you is deliberately not headcount. It’s whether SE time moves off the questions that recur and onto the part of the bid that actually differentiates. The target is that experts see the 10–20% that’s genuinely new for this buyer instead of re-approving the same forty answers every deal.
We already have an AI assistant in Slack. Why this as well?
The question is what it answers from. A general assistant answers from the open internet and whatever it can reach; this answers from your approved control set, product documentation and prior submissions, with the source attached. If your security team can’t sign off on where the answer came from, the speed isn’t worth much.
Can it help the AE mid-call, or is this only documents?
Both, from the same source. The material that answers a security questionnaire is the material that answers an AE asking about security posture on a call — which is the point of keeping one approved source rather than a document tool and a chat tool that disagree.
Who are you actually live with in software?
Salesforce, UiPath, Sprout Social, Snowflake, Cisco, OutSystems and PandaDoc, among others. Salesforce ran a 973-question RFP at 93% first-pass completion. UiPath returned $864K and five FTE of productivity in year one. This is the segment where we have the most deployed evidence, so ask hard questions about it.
Where would you start?
The security questionnaire queue, almost always. It’s the most repetitive, the most measurable, and the one whose delay is visible in the forecast. One workflow, we measure how the work runs today, then measure it again at the end.
Bring the security questionnaire currently blocking a deal.
We’ll map your control set and prior submissions, run the questionnaire together, and leave you with a draft your security owner can review rather than rewrite.
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