How do I answer a customer's security questionnaire with Maditon?
Upload the file the customer sent — XLSX, DOCX, CSV or PDF. Maditon keeps the question identifiers, sections and order, then drafts an answer to every question it can from your compliance profile, your supplier register, your systems and the answers you approved before, naming the source of each. You review, edit and approve; only approved answers go into the file you export back, in the customer's own format.
Security and privacy questionnaires are how your customers do their own supplier due diligence, so answering them well is part of being a supplier. Maditon treats a questionnaire as a document to answer from a record, not a form to type into.
The record it draws on. Your compliance profile — the facts about your company you fill in once: hosting, encryption, incident handling, roles. Your supplier register — the sub-processors are derived from it, so that part of the answer stays true by itself. Your systems and services. And the answer library: every answer you approved on an earlier questionnaire, ready to be reused when the same question comes back in different words.
What a draft is. Each drafted answer shows where it came from — profile, register, library — so the reviewer can check it. A question the record cannot answer is marked needs input rather than answered with a guess. Documents you marked private are never used: the workspace tells you when a supplier or system you rely on has one, so you know to check that agreement by hand.
What leaves the building. Nothing until a named user has approved it. Approved answers are exported into the customer’s own file layout, and the export is kept so the last thing you sent can be downloaded again. Every draft is produced by Mistral on an EU endpoint; the questionnaire itself is your company’s material and never goes anywhere else.
Related API endpoints
/api/questionnaires bearer Upload a questionnaire and extract its questions
/api/questionnaires/{questionnaire_id}/draft bearer Draft answers from the organisation's own record
/api/questionnaires/{questionnaire_id}/questions/{question_id}/approve bearer Approve one answer
/api/questionnaires/{questionnaire_id}/export bearer Export the answered questionnaire as XLSX, DOCX or PDF
Base URL https://api.maditon.app ·
full specification at openapi.json
Regulation references
- Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) · Art. 28 · CELEX 32016R0679
- Directive (EU) 2022/2555 (NIS2) · Art. 21 · CELEX 32022L2555
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