Answering the questionnaire, faster

A SaaS B2B business working with Cloud Combinator on AWS. The client is anonymised at their request.

The engagement had three focus areas, each central to making an assistant that the client could trust with client-facing responses.

The client's governance and compliance documents are indexed into Amazon Q, which connects the corpus to a large language model so that a natural-language question retrieves the most relevant passages and returns a drafted answer grounded in the client's own material. When a new questionnaire arrives, its questions can be put to the assistant and a first-draft response comes back with the supporting content behind it, ready for a specialist to review and finalise.

Cloud Combinator delivered a designed and costed Amazon Q assistant that turns the client's existing compliance documentation into drafted answers for inbound questionnaires, shifting effort from writing from scratch to reviewing a grounded draft.

• Reuse of existing answers — The assistant draws on the client's GDPR, ISMS, quality and policy material, so answers reflect what the company has already documented rather than generic text.
• Grounded drafting — Amazon Q retrieves relevant passages and drafts a response with its supporting content, giving specialists a first draft to check rather than a blank page.
• Cost transparency — The AWS consumption was modelled up front across indexing, query and token usage, so the running cost is understood against questionnaire volume.
• Handover — The client received a designed assistant and a cost model, ready to put against its live pipeline of RFPs and security assessments.

With its own compliance knowledge made queryable, the client is positioned to respond to procurement and assurance questionnaires faster and more consistently, freeing specialist time for the work that actually differentiates a bid.