Introducing ComplyReady: Answer Security Questionnaires From Your Real Cloud

If you sell software to enterprises, you know the moment. The deal is going well, everyone's excited, and then procurement sends over a 200-question security questionnaire. Suddenly your momentum stalls while someone on your small team spends days copy-pasting answers about encryption, access controls, and incident response — answers they're half-guessing at, hoping they're accurate enough to not blow up the deal.

I built ComplyReady because I watched this happen one too many times, and because the existing tools that solve it cost more than an early-stage startup can justify.

The problem with how questionnaires get answered today

Most security questionnaire tools work the same way: you build up a knowledge base of past answers, and AI drafts new answers by matching against it. That's better than starting from a blank page, but it has a fundamental weakness — the answers are only as true as what you typed in.If your knowledge base says “all data is encrypted at rest” but someone spun up an unencrypted S3 bucket last month, the tool will confidently tell your enterprise customer something that isn't true. On a security questionnaire, that's not a small problem.

The answer to “is your data encrypted at rest” shouldn't come from what you remember configuring. It should come from what your infrastructure is actually doing right now.

What ComplyReady does differently

ComplyReady connects to your cloud (AWS today, with more coming) and your source control (GitHub), with read-only access, and verifies your actual security posture against the SOC 2 Common Criteria. Then it answers your security questionnaires from that verified configuration — not from a guess.

Concretely, that means:

• It scans your real infrastructure.Connect AWS read-only and ComplyReady checks dozens of controls — encryption, IAM, logging, network configuration, and more — and shows you exactly what's compliant and what needs fixing, with remediation steps. Connect GitHub and it checks 2FA enforcement, branch protection, secret scanning, and other change-management controls.
• It answers questionnaires from that data.Upload a vendor questionnaire — PDF, Excel, or Word — and ComplyReady answers each question from your verified config where it can. When a question maps to something it actually scanned, the answer carries the evidence and the scan date: “Verified from cloud scan.” When the scan shows a problem, it tells you honestly, with the remediation, instead of papering over it.
• It generates the rest. Audit-ready security policies tailored to your actual stack, a SOC 2 readiness view where controls are auto-verified from your scans, and a public trust center you can share with prospects.

The thing I care about most: when ComplyReady tells your enterprise customer something is true, it's because a scan of your real environment confirmed it. Not because someone typed it into a box once.

Who it's for

ComplyReady is built for early-stage SaaS teams selling into enterprise — the teams who hit security questionnaires before they can afford a $10,000-a-year compliance platform, and who'd rather their answers reflect reality than hope.

It's not trying to be everything an established compliance suite is. It's focused, it's lightweight, and right now it's free.

It's in open beta, and it's free

ComplyReady is in open beta. It's completely free while I build it out — no credit card, no payment, no trial that converts. I'm looking for early users whose feedback shapes where it goes next. Paid plans will come eventually, and beta users will get plenty of notice before anything changes.

I'm a solo founder building this in the open, and the honest truth is that the product gets better fastest when real people use it and tell me what's missing. Several already have, and the roadmap is being shaped by exactly those conversations.