Every security questionnaire platform in 2026 helps vendors answer questionnaires from enterprise customers. VendorAuditly does the opposite — it helps you send questionnaires to your vendors, adapt the questions to what you already know, track responses automatically, and turn every answer into a risk score. Built for the 60-person business assessing 40 suppliers. Not a CISO answering SIG questionnaires.
Before choosing any security questionnaire platform, you need to know which direction the questionnaire flows. The two categories serve opposite audiences with no functional overlap whatsoever.
Assess your suppliers’ security. Evaluate. Score. Track.
Prove your own security posture. Accelerate enterprise deals.
Every other tool sends the same questionnaire to every vendor regardless of what you already know. VendorAuditly reads your existing documents and selects only the questions that actually matter for that specific vendor — then tells you exactly why it chose them.
Select a vendor scenario — see which questions are selected and why
Sending the questionnaire is step one. VendorAuditly handles everything after — chasing non-responses, reviewing completed answers, updating compliance checklists, and generating an AI summary of what the answers mean for this specific vendor.
The system reads your existing documents and vendor type. It selects 8–25 targeted questions, skips what you already know, and shows you exactly why each question was chosen before you send.
8–25 questions, not 54No account creation required. The vendor opens a direct link, sees their targeted questionnaire with a summary of why these questions were selected, and responds in their browser. No portal friction.
Zero vendor account frictionIf no response in 7 days, a chase email fires automatically. Day 14: second chase. Day 21: vendor flagged as uncooperative, risk score penalised +15 points, internal owner escalated. Zero manual follow-up.
Fully automatedOn submission, AI scans every answer and flags: blank answers, breach history reports, MFA not enforced, inconsistencies between answers, and GDPR timeline violations. Flags surfaced immediately in the vendor record.
AI-reviewed on submitNot all questionnaire answers deserve equal attention. These six response patterns reveal that a vendor’s security posture is weaker than their documentation suggests — and require a specific action before the vendor is scored as compliant.
A blank is not a negative answer — it is a deliberately avoided answer. The vendor saw the question and chose not to respond. That decision is itself a signal about transparency and security culture.
“Yes, we had an incident in 2023” or even a vague “there was a minor issue” triggers an immediate flag. AI captures any non-negative answer to the breach history question and surfaces it in the risk summary.
Policy-only MFA means some staff will not have it enabled. Technically enforced MFA means nobody can bypass it. The difference is material — one is a control, the other is a suggestion.
GDPR requires notification within 72 hours. If the vendor answers “More than 72 hours” or “No defined process” to the breach notification question, this is a direct GDPR compliance gap in your vendor relationship.
An untested BCP is a hypothesis. The plan may be complete on paper and fail in practice. “We have a BCP” and “We have a tested BCP” are not equivalent from a continuity risk perspective.
A SaaS vendor running on AWS, using Datadog for monitoring, and Zendesk for support who answers “no sub-processors” has either misunderstood the question or is not tracking their own data flows — both are concerning for a GDPR data processor.
SecurityPal, Iris AI, Loopio, Conveyor, SafeBase, Vanta, Drata, and Skypher all help vendors answer questionnaires their enterprise customers send them. This comparison covers the sender side specifically — VendorAuditly also has a responder tool (the Answer Bank), included in the same account rather than sold separately.
| Capability | VendorAuditly ✦ SMB Sender | SecurityPal / Iris AI / Loopio | Vanta / Drata / Sprinto | Spreadsheet |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary use case | Send questionnaires TO vendors. Assess supplier security. | Answer questionnaires FROM enterprise customers | Prove your own SOC 2 / ISO 27001 compliance | Manual tracking, any use case |
| Who it’s for | SMB ops managers, procurement (15–150 vendors) | Security teams at tech/SaaS companies | Growing startups seeking compliance certification | Anyone with a spreadsheet |
| Annual price | From $499/yr | $6,000–$60,000+/yr | $10,000–$30,000+/yr | Free |
| Adaptive question selection | ✓ 8–25 questions based on vendor context | ✗ Not applicable (answering, not sending) | ✗ | ✗ |
| Send via direct link (no vendor account) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Auto-chase Day 7 / 14 / 21 | ✓ Fully automated | N/A — different use case | ✗ | ✗ |
| AI reviews responses for red flags | ✓ Breach, MFA, BCP, GDPR gaps | AI generates answers, doesn’t review them | ✗ | ✗ |
| Answers feed into vendor risk score | ✓ Risk score auto-updates | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| GDPR / NIS2 checklist integration | ✓ Answers resolve checklist items | ✗ | Your own compliance only | ✗ |
| AI compliance summary per vendor | ✓ Plain English after questionnaire | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Document extraction + expiry alerts | ✓ AI reads PDFs in 60 seconds | ✗ | Your own documents only | ✗ |
| Free tier | ✓ 3 vendors free forever | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Note: SecurityPal, Iris AI, Loopio, and Conveyor are dedicated platforms for security and sales teams at tech companies managing inbound questionnaires from enterprise customers — a genuinely different problem from an SMB ops manager assessing 40 suppliers, which is what this table covers. If that's your problem instead, VendorAuditly's own Answer Bank covers it at $49/month rather than enterprise pricing.
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Security questionnaires are one input into a broader vendor risk programme. These guides and tools cover every adjacent layer.
Targeted questions. Direct link. Auto-chase. AI reviews every answer. Risk score updates automatically. Free forever on 3 vendors.
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