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1up

AI answers for RFPs and security questionnaires

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What is 1up?

1up is a cloud platform that helps sales, security, and IT teams answer RFPs, security questionnaires, and internal product questions using a centralized knowledge base. It connects to company documents, websites, chat tools, and business systems to generate draft responses, support review workflows, and fill answers across files and web forms. Built for organizations that want faster, source-grounded questionnaire completion and easier knowledge access across go-to-market and compliance teams.

How to evaluate this tool

Start with questionnaire volume and where your team answers questions: files, browser portals, or internal chat. Evaluate questionnaire automation separately from customer-facing Answer Hub and MCP access.

Check during a demo: Use the same approved sources to answer a spreadsheet and a web questionnaire. Check citations, unsupported answers, reviewer handoff, and the capacity included in your chosen product.

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Editorial guidance based on the sources below; not a hands-on product test.

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Overview

1up is a cloud answer engine for sales, security, and IT teams that automates RFPs, security questionnaires, DDQs, and product questions from approved company sources. It connects documents, websites, knowledge systems, chat tools, and business applications into a centralized knowledge base and generates source-grounded drafts across files and web portals.

Key Features

  • Questionnaire Automation: Handles Word, Excel, Google Sheets, PDF, CSV, and web questionnaires.
  • Trusted-Source Answers: Generates answers from connected company content rather than general web knowledge.
  • Chat and Browser Access: Works in Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Chrome, and Edge.
  • Answer Hub: Provides a customer-facing answer experience with human escalation.
  • Collaboration: Supports assignment, comments, review, approval, and role-based access.
  • Multilingual Workflows: Generates and proofreads answers in dozens of languages.
  • MCP Server: A hosted OAuth MCP server exposes Q&A, questionnaires, knowledge-base management, workspace usage, and audit events to supported AI clients.

Integrations

Current named connectors include Salesforce, Google Drive, SharePoint, OneDrive, Egnyte, Highspot, Notion, Confluence, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Google Chat. Chrome and Edge extensions fill web questionnaires.

Security & Compliance

1up displays SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 badges and states GDPR compliance. Customer data is isolated by workspace, encrypted with AES-256 at rest and encrypted in transit, and not used to train AI models. Customers can choose US, EU, or AU availability zones. SSO is included from Starter; public SCIM support was not found. The MCP documentation exposes audit-event retrieval, so audit logging is now confirmed.

Pricing

The Free plan includes one admin, 50 knowledge uploads, and 50 answers per month. Paid RFP questionnaire plans start with Starter at $300/month for one questionnaire. Plus costs $900/month for six questionnaires, and Enterprise is custom. MCP access is a separate product, so it is not treated as 1up's entry RFP software price. The page also presents Answer Hub at $1,000/month and offers 15% savings for annual payment. A 14-day trial is documented.

Best For

1up fits SMB through enterprise teams that want lightweight, source-grounded questionnaire automation plus self-service sales knowledge.

Considerations

The free tier is tightly capped, paid questionnaire capacity starts at $300/month, and no public SCIM documentation or standalone REST API program was found. AI-generated responses still require human verification.

Use Cases
RFP ResponseSecurity QuestionnaireKnowledge Base
Best For
SMBMid-MarketEnterprise

Pricing

$300/mo
Flat rate · starting price
Free plan available14-day free trial

Paid RFP questionnaire plans start with Starter at $300/month. The separate MCP plan is $50/month plus $0.05 per question answered and is excluded from the RFP plan baseline. A separately presented customer-facing Answer Hub offer is $1,000/month. The current page advertises 15% annual savings; exact discounted dollar totals are not printed.

Free
$0/mo
MCP
$50/mo + usage15% discount billed annually
Starter
$300/mo15% discount billed annually
Plus
$900/mo15% discount billed annually
Enterprise
Custom
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Capabilities

5 AI-powered

AI Generation

AI response draftingAI

Produces hundreds of RFP and questionnaire responses in minutes from trusted company sources, with product-specific answers segmented by line of business.

Multilingual generationAI

Generates answers and handles questionnaires in 20+ languages with automatic proofreading.

Knowledge Management

Document ingestionAI

Classifies questions and fields across questionnaire formats for accurate routing and answering.

Centralized content library

Builds from websites, product docs, past questionnaires, Google Drive, SharePoint, Confluence, and Notion.

Quality & Verification

Quality auditAI

Checks grammar and spelling automatically across generated responses.

Workflow & Collaboration

Document automation

Handles Word, Excel, Google Sheets, PDF, and web-based questionnaires including multiple-choice fields.

Delivery & Access

Chat & messaging accessAI

Enables Q&A through Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, and browser extensions.

Answer portal

Provides a branded portal (Answer Hub) for self-service question answering.

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Response Types
RFPsSecurity questionnaires
Collaboration
Review workflows
Approval workflows
Task assignment
Role-based access

Security & Compliance

SOC 2 Type IIISO 27001
Encryption at Rest
Encryption in Transit
Audit Logs
Role-Based Access

Data Residency: US, EU, AU

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Integrations

CRM
Salesforce
Cloud Storage
Google Drive
SharePoint
Egnyte
Microsoft OneDrive
Communication
Slack
Microsoft Teams
Google Chat
Other
Notion
Confluence
Highspot
Chrome extension
Edge extension
Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Who is 1up best for?

Proposal Team

High-volume RFP/RFx response with AI-generated first drafts grounded in approved company content

Security Team

Vendor security questionnaire and due-diligence response across files and web portals

Sales Team

Fast answers inside Slack, Teams, or Google Chat without relying on SMEs for every question

Team Size
SMBMid-MarketEnterprise
Industries
Software & SaaSCybersecurity
Considerations
  • TechnicalNo public SCIM documentation or standalone REST API program; MCP is documented separately
  • DeploymentNo on-premise deployment option

Competitive Overview

What sets it apart
Emphasizes generating new answers from trusted source material instead of relying primarily on a static answer library
Combines questionnaire automation, chat-based answer retrieval, browser-based form filling, and knowledge automation in one product
Multilingual answer generation and translation for distributed global teams
Free tier plus transparent questionnaire-capacity tiers starting with Starter at $300/month
Strengths
  • Free tier and transparent published capacity-based pricing
  • Fast implementation and ease of use reported by customers and reviewers
  • Strong time savings for RFP and security questionnaire workflows
  • Chat-based knowledge access across Slack, Teams, and Google Chat
  • Data residency options in US, EU, and AU
Weaknesses
  • A standalone REST API program is not publicly documented; MCP operations are documented separately
  • Occasional answer inaccuracy noted in reviewer feedback
  • No named SSO providers or public SCIM documentation

Data quality & freshness

Editorial research based on the linked sources, not a hands-on product test.

Current
Sources reviewed
Sep 7, 2026
Next review due
Sep 14, 2026
Sources checked
9 total · 8 official · 1 third-party

The 2026-09-07 review rechecked the cited current product, pricing, integration, and/or security sources. No material factual change was confirmed, and older evidence remains preserved with its original verification dates.

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