Introducing ComplyDeck: I Built an AI to Answer Security Questionnaires 10x Faster - Bala Murali

If you’ve ever worked in a security or compliance role, you know the pain.

A customer sends you a 300-question security questionnaire. It’s due in two weeks. You already have three others sitting in your inbox. Each one takes 20+ hours of digging through policy documents, copying from previous responses, and hoping you’re consistent with what you said last time.

I’ve been there. I’ve spent countless nights copy-pasting the same answers about our encryption standards, our incident response procedures, our access control policies. It’s mind-numbing, repetitive, and—frankly—a terrible use of human expertise.

So I built ComplyDeck to solve it.

The Problem Nobody Talks About

Here’s what happens in most companies:

Customer requests a security questionnaire (could be 50 questions, could be 500)
Someone in security/compliance opens a spreadsheet and starts hunting through policy PDFs
They answer questions from memory or scroll through a folder of “previous questionnaire answers”
Inconsistencies creep in — you say one thing to Customer A, something slightly different to Customer B
20–40 hours later, you submit… and wait for the next one

The real problem? This cycle never ends. As your company grows, questionnaire volume grows faster. You can’t hire your way out of it.

What ComplyDeck Does

ComplyDeck is an AI-powered compliance assistant that uses your own policies to answer questionnaires automatically.

1) Upload Your Policies Once

Drop your security policies, SOC 2 reports, and compliance documentation into the Knowledge Base. ComplyDeck parses, chunks, and indexes everything so it can retrieve the right context later.

2) Build a Q&A Database (The Secret Sauce)

This is where it gets interesting. Every time you answer a question and approve it, it goes into your Q&A database. Over time, this becomes your institutional knowledge—exactly how your company answers compliance questions.

When a new questionnaire comes in, ComplyDeck first checks: “Have we answered something like this before?” If yes, it retrieves that approved answer. If not, it generates a fresh response grounded in your documentation.

3) Drag, Drop, Done

Export your customer’s questionnaire as a CSV. Drag it into ComplyDeck. Click “Process.” Watch as the AI works through each question in real-time—matching against your Q&A database, pulling context from your policies, and generating answers.

4) Review, Edit, Export

Every AI-generated response is editable. Tweak the wording if needed. When you’re satisfied, export the completed CSV and send it back.

The Tech Under the Hood

Since this is my personal blog, let me nerd out for a minute.

ComplyDeck is built on a RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) architecture—meaning it doesn’t “guess” answers from thin air. It retrieves relevant context from your approved knowledge first, then generates responses based on that evidence.

The magic happens in the matching pipeline:

Question comes in
    ↓
Search approved Q&A knowledge (semantic similarity)
    ↓
If match found with high confidence → Return approved answer
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Else: Retrieve relevant policy/document context
    ↓
Generate response grounded in retrieved evidence
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Return answer + sources + confidence

The system tracks confidence scores, flags questions that need human review, and includes references back to the source material. It’s designed to be accurate and auditable.

Why I Built This

I’ve spent years dealing with security questionnaires at various companies. The inefficiency always frustrated me:

Smart security professionals wasting time on copy-paste
Tribal knowledge locked in individual heads (or worse, departed employees)
Inconsistent answers creating audit risks
No leverage—answering 100 questionnaires takes 100x the effort

ComplyDeck turns questionnaire answering from an O(n) problem into something that compounds. Every answer you approve makes the system smarter, more consistent, and faster over time.

What’s Next

This is v1. Live today at app.complydeck.com.

On the roadmap:

Multi-user collaboration with approval workflows
Framework mapping (auto-tag answers to SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.)
Native integrations (CRM, ticketing, and portal workflows)
Analytics dashboard (track question trends, response times, coverage gaps)

Try It Free

If you’re drowning in security questionnaires, give ComplyDeck a try.

Upload a policy. Drop a CSV. See the magic happen.

→ Get Started at complydeck.com

Want to know more? Ping me at mail@balamurali.in — or just DM me.