Responsive

AI-powered RFP and security questionnaire response platform

Est. 2015Portland, ORLateStage

What is Responsive?

Responsive (formerly RFPIO) is a cloud-based strategic response management platform for RFPs, RFIs, DDQs, security questionnaires, trust centers, and other recurring information requests. It combines a reusable content library, workflow automation, integrations, reporting, and AI agents to help response teams draft, review, and reuse approved answers at scale. Built for SMB through enterprise teams that manage high volumes of sales, proposal, and security-response work.

Use Cases

RFP ResponseSecurity QuestionnaireProposalWritingKnowledge BaseDocumentGeneration

Best For

All

Pricing

Custom pricing

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Lite

Custom

Emerging

Custom

Growth

Custom

Enterprise

Custom

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Capabilities

8 AI-powered

AI Generation

AI response draftingAI

Drafts fully sourced answers with TRACE quality scoring and pre-submission checks, including AI-assisted completion for standardized security assessment frameworks.

Executive summary generationAI

Creates executive summaries from proposal content and RFP requirements.

Knowledge Management

Centralized content library

Stores reusable approved answers, documents, and templates with unlimited storage on paid plans.

Semantic searchAI

Ask by Responsive provides conversational search over approved content with cited answers.

Intelligence & Analysis

Go/no-go evaluationAI

Scores opportunities for strategic fit and resource priority using AI-driven analysis of RFP content and team-defined criteria.

Requirements extractionAI

Extracts mandatory submissions, evaluation criteria, and key requirements from RFP document packages.

Quality & Verification

Confidence scoringAI

Evaluates AI-generated responses for clarity, relevance, and completeness before submission.

Quality auditAI

Quality Check flags issues across responses before final submission.

Workflow & Collaboration

Document automation

Handles templates, dynamic fields, imports, exports, and branded questionnaire completion.

Review & approval workflows

Step-by-step workflows with built-in best practices for RFPs, questionnaires, and assessments.

No-code agent builderAI

Agent Studio lets teams build custom AI agents tailored to specific response workflows.

Delivery & Access

Trust center

Public or private trust profiles with NDA-gated access and licensed SIG/CAIQ templates.

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Response Types

RFPsSecurity questionnairesProposals & bids

Collaboration

Co-editing

Commenting

Review workflows

Approval workflows

Task assignment

Progress tracking

Guest access

Reporting & Analytics

Activity dashboard

Executive dashboard

ROI reporting

Win/loss analysis

CRM-linked reporting

Usage tracking

Security & Compliance

SOC 2 Type IIISO 27001GDPR

Encryption at Rest

Encryption in Transit

Audit Logs

Role-Based Access

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Integrations

CRM

Salesforce

HubSpot

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Cloud Storage

SharePoint

Communication

Slack

Microsoft Teams

SSO

Okta

Other

Highspot

Door

Public API

API Docs

Who is Responsive best for?

Proposal Team

High-volume RFP/RFI/proposal response with reusable approved content and governed AI assistance

Security Team

Security questionnaire, DDQ, SIG, and CAIQ response programs with collaboration and review workflows

Sales Team

Trust-center self-service and engagement analytics tied to revenue workflows

Team Size

SMBMid-MarketEnterprise

Industries

Software & SaaSHealthcareProcurementHR & Workforce

Considerations

Team sizeSolo operators or very small teams
PricingNo transparent self-serve pricing or free tier

Competitive Overview

What sets it apart

Broader Strategic Response Management positioning beyond proposal drafting, including trust centers, requirements analysis, and guided response workflows

Strong emphasis on governed AI grounded in approved content, with TRACE Score, Quality Check, Ask, and no-code Agent Studio

Only tool in the space with a dedicated Trust Center product for self-service security reviews

Strengths

Most mature and widely adopted platform in the space — founded 2015, PE-backed, broad enterprise customer base
Strong centralized content library and AI-assisted search over approved answers
Broadest workflow coverage across RFPs, DDQs, security questionnaires, trust centers, and proposals
Open API access and developer docs for extensibility
Visible ROI and engagement analytics including trust-center and Salesforce-linked reporting

Weaknesses

No public pricing transparency — all plans are quote-based
Public review feedback points to a learning curve and occasional response-quality issues
Public documentation is thinner on some admin/security details such as SCIM and data residency