Security questionnaires // for AI startups

Answer security questionnaires in an afternoon. Honestly.

The 150-question security review is freezing your enterprise deal. Cleared drafts every answer from your company profile — strong on the AI questions, and it never fakes a yes.

No card required · Your first questionnaire is on us

vendor_security_review.xlsx142 questions
Do you encrypt customer data at rest and in transit?
Yes. All customer data is encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.2+) across our infrastructure.
cleared · from your profile
Do you use customer data to train your models?
No. Customer data is never used to train or fine-tune models. Prompts are processed and not retained for training.
cleared · AI-governance
Do you have a completed SOC 2 Type II report?
Not yet — SOC 2 Type II is in progress. We can share our current practices and timeline on request.
gap · honest, not faked
10–40 hrs
to answer one questionnaire by hand
78%
of buyers pick whoever answers first
Weeks → hours
what Cleared changes it to
The problem

The deal is ready. Then the questionnaire lands.

You're a few people, no security team, and a 150-question form just showed up between you and a signature. Here's what founders tell us — and what Cleared does about it.

A deal's frozen and I don't know how to answer this.
Cleared drafts every answer for you from your company profile — never a blank form.
Answering one eats days I don't have.
What takes 10–40 hours by hand becomes an afternoon of reviewing.
If I'm slow, a competitor wins the deal.
Cleared makes you the vendor who answers first — the one buyers pick.
The AI questions about our models scare me.
Built for AI startups and strongest on exactly those questions.
How it works

From blank page to sent answers in three steps.

step 01

Build your profile once

A short guided interview about your hosting, data, AI use, access, and compliance. Saved forever — you never redo it.

step 02

Import the questionnaire

Drop in the buyer's Excel or Word file, or paste portal questions. Cleared reads every question automatically.

step 03

Review honest drafts

Each answer is written from your profile and tagged cleared or gap. Approve, tweak, and export in the same format.

Why not just use ChatGPT?

Because a made-up answer can kill the deal.

Sure, you could paste the questionnaire into ChatGPT or Claude. Here's why that backfires on a security review — and why Cleared is built for exactly this job.

Pasting into ChatGPTrisky
  • Doesn't know your company — invents confident answers that may be false
  • Will happily write "yes, we're SOC 2 compliant" even if you're not
  • Forgets everything — you start from scratch every single time
  • Gives a text blob you re-paste into every Excel or Word cell by hand
  • Answers the same question differently twice — a red flag to buyers
  • Your private security details sit in a public chat
Clearedbuilt for this
  • Answers only from your verified company profile — no guessing
  • Never fakes a yes; flags honest gaps and how to close them
  • Remembers your profile and every answer — the next one is faster
  • Imports and exports in your original file, same format out
  • Consistent, tagged answers with a clear source for each
  • Encrypted and built to handle sensitive security data safely
Why Cleared

The gaps other tools leave open.

Generic questionnaire tools are built for big companies with security teams. Cleared is built for you.

Generic tools
Cleared
Getting started
Weeks building a library first
A short interview — blank page ready
AI-governance questions
Weak — built for generic SaaS
Purpose-built and defensible
Honesty
Copy-pastes stale answers
Never fakes a yes — flags gaps
Pricing
$5k–$20k/yr, quote-only
Transparent and startup-friendly
Pricing

Priced for a startup, not an enterprise.

One closed deal pays for a year. Start free, upgrade when it's paying off.

Starter
$120/mo
For the founder facing their first few reviews.
  • 1 company profile
  • Up to 5 questionnaires / month
  • Honest answer drafting
  • PDF export
Start free
most popular
Growth
$350/mo
Everything you need to close enterprise deals fast.
  • Unlimited questionnaires
  • Answer memory & reuse
  • Excel, Word & PDF export
  • AI-governance answer pack
  • Up to 3 team members
Start free
Scale
$600/mo
For teams handling reviews at volume.
  • Everything in Growth
  • Unlimited team members
  • Shared answer library
  • Public trust page
  • Priority support
Start free

Every plan starts with your first questionnaire free · 2 months free on annual billing

FAQ

Questions, answered honestly.

Why not just paste it into ChatGPT?+

ChatGPT doesn't know your company, so it invents plausible answers that can be wrong — dangerous on a security form. Cleared answers only from your verified profile, never fakes a yes, keeps answers consistent, remembers them, and exports back into your original file.

Is my company data safe with Cleared?+

Yes. Your company profile and answers are encrypted and never shared. Cleared is a security product — protecting your data is the entire point.

Will the answers actually be accurate?+

Every answer is built only from the facts in your profile, and each is tagged so you can see what to send as-is and what to double-check. You review and approve before anything leaves.

What if we don't do something a question asks about?+

Cleared never fakes a yes. If your profile doesn't support a control, it says so honestly and flags a gap, with a note on how to close it.

Which questionnaire formats do you support?+

Import Excel, Word, or pasted portal questions — including common frameworks like SIG and CAIQ — and export back in the same format you imported.

Does Cleared replace our SOC 2 or ISO certification?+

No. Cleared helps you answer the questionnaires buyers send during a deal. It works alongside your certification, never instead of it.

Stop losing deals to paperwork.

Answer your next security questionnaire in an afternoon — honestly, and without the blank-page dread.

Answer your first one free