Security questionnaire software that doesn't compromise compliance
SIG, CAIQ, NIST 800-171, vendor security assessments, custom questionnaires. RocketDocs handles the multi-tab Excel files, the 300-plus question deals, and the audit trail your security team relies on. Private AI means your security responses never leave your environment.
Why security teams hate generic response platforms
The seams show
Most response management platforms were built for proposals, then adapted for security questionnaires.
- Generic AI sees your security responses, including the controls you have not implemented yet
- Multi-tab Excel exports lose formatting, break tab structure, or skip required tabs entirely
- Audit trails are sparse: who answered, who approved, and when, all hard to retrieve during audit
- Re-typing the same SIG every quarter, because the platform did not learn from last time
RocketDocs solves all four.
Private AI by design
Private AI by design
Astro runs on Llama 3.3 hosted inside the RocketDocs environment. Customer data, including security control descriptions, vulnerability postures, and compliance attestations, never leaves your environment. No third-party model provider. No external context. The same AI architecture that holds up under audit for financial services and healthcare holds up here.
Multi-tab Excel
Multi-tab Excel handled natively
Most security questionnaires ship as multi-tab Excel files. SIG, CAIQ, vendor SIG derivatives, and custom enterprise assessments all use multi-tab structure. RocketDocs lets you choose which tabs to include in your response, configure response placement per tab, and process them in bulk. Exports preserve the original tab structure, formatting, and any embedded scoring logic.
- Tab selection: choose which tabs to include and which to skip before processing
- Response placement: configure where answers go in each tab (column position/row mapping)
- Bulk operations: assign SMEs, run autofill, and run generative AI
- Filtering: surface content for the topic area or tab you are working on, with the rest hidden
- Formatting preservation: exported file maintains original tab structure, formatting, and embedded scoring or logic
Audit trail
Audit trail by default
Every change to a security response is logged. Every approval is timestamped. When the customer (or auditor) asks who approved the answer to question 247 of last year's SIG, the answer is in the platform.
SME routing
Routes to the right SME, automatically
Security questionnaires need security engineers, IT, legal, compliance, and sometimes HR. RocketDocs assigns sections automatically based on content topic, role, and group.
Lockdown
Lockdown of approved responses
Once a security response is approved, the response can be locked in the library. Future autofill uses the locked version. No accidental drift on the CISO-approved answer because someone inadvertently edited the library record last month.
Questionnaire types we support
Every security questionnaire shape, natively handled
- SIG and SIG Lite (Shared Assessments Standardized Information Gathering)
- CAIQ and CAIQ Lite (Cloud Security Alliance Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire)
- NIST 800-171 (controlled unclassified information for federal contractors and subcontractors)
- NIST 800-53 (security and privacy controls for federal information systems)
- HIPAA security assessments
- PCI DSS readiness questionnaires
- SOC 2 supporting questionnaires
- Vendor SIG derivatives (custom enterprise versions of SIG)
- Custom enterprise security questionnaires (non-standard formats from individual customers)
What customers say
Trusted by the teams whose responses cannot be wrong
The tool itself is very simple and direct. I've trained a lot of people on this and they're like, that's all I have to do? It's the way that RocketDocs works with Word. It's very similar to what they're used to. It's very user friendly.
RocketDocs has competitors in the space. But none of them can do what RapidDocs does. I haven't found any that are as good in product suite. So RapidDocs, from my perspective, is pretty unique. It's a great tool. It can save you time. It can help you to do things a lot easier.
Problems are the same for all RFP teams: finding the correct data at the right time, and organizing data into useful libraries and subtopics. RocketDocs allows us to manage more than 10 different lines of business and keep our data organized and structured.
After over 20 years of using different RFP database management systems, I am impressed with the usability and ease of organization in the system. The speed with which my team can locate and update responses is impressive.
Cycle time on enterprise DDQs dropped from six weeks to under two. The private-AI architecture is the only reason our security team ever signed off on adding generative AI to the response workflow at all.
We run all of our institutional questionnaire responses through RocketDocs. Multi-affiliate library structure handles our three lines of business cleanly; SME assignment and review cycles keep content accurate without anyone having to babysit it.
The Excel multi-tab handling is the feature that closed it for us. SIG Lite, SIG Core, CAIQ, our own customer questionnaires — all multi-tab, all native. The other platforms we evaluated either flattened the tabs or charged extra for the capability.
The audit trail is what finally got us off the spreadsheet-and-email pattern. When 21 CFR Part 11 reviewers ask who approved each answer and when, we have a real answer instead of digging through Slack.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Does RocketDocs support SIG and CAIQ specifically?
Yes. SIG, SIG Lite, CAIQ, and CAIQ Lite are all natively supported. The standard formats import without manual restructuring. Updates to these standards (when Shared Assessments or CSA release new versions) are typically supported within weeks of release.
How does RocketDocs handle 300-plus question security questionnaires?
Volume is a primary design consideration. The platform handles questionnaires with hundreds of questions across multiple tabs without performance issues. Bulk autofill, bulk SME assignment, and bulk AI response generation cut the time from weeks to days for the largest deals.
Will security questionnaire responses ever be sent to a third-party AI provider?
No. RocketDocs generative AI engine runs on Llama 3.3 hosted inside the RocketDocs environment. Your security responses are never sent to OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other external model provider.
Can we lock down certain answers so they cannot be edited without approval?
Yes. Approved security responses can be locked at the content record level. Locked responses are used for autofill but cannot be edited without an explicit unlock from an authorized user. The lock and unlock actions are logged in the audit trail.
Who typically owns RocketDocs in our organization?
In security-focused deployments, RocketDocs is typically owned by the GRC team, the security operations team, or a dedicated trust and assurance function. The proposal team or sales operations may also use the same platform for RFP and DDQ work, with shared content libraries.
How fast can we respond to a SIG after deploying RocketDocs?
Most teams complete their first SIG response in the platform within four to six weeks of go-live. The first response is the slowest because the content library is being built. The second response is materially faster because the library now has approved content. By the third or fourth response, teams typically see the 50 percent turnaround reduction reported by mature deployments.
Ready to see RocketDocs for security questionnaires?
A specialist will walk you through a real SIG or CAIQ scenario, with the multi-tab Excel handling, audit trail, and private AI demonstrated end to end.