Use Case
Vendor onboarding security reviews — days, not weeks
The security review is often the longest stage of vendor onboarding. Not because the decisions are hard — because the preparation is mechanical. Clarito handles the questionnaire normalization, controls taxonomy mapping, and risk scoring so your team arrives at the decision point with the analysis already done.
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The Problem
Why vendor onboarding security reviews drag on
Manual mapping is slow
An analyst reading each questionnaire item and matching it to NIST CSF or SOC 2 controls manually takes 2–4 hours on a standard 40-50 item questionnaire. That's before any gap analysis or response drafting begins.
Format inconsistency
Every vendor uses a different format — CSVs, PDFs, proprietary portals. Normalizing them before you can even start reviewing wastes significant time.
Inconsistent responses
When different analysts write responses to the same control questions for different vendors, the language diverges. Inconsistent responses across your vendor records is a liability when those records are compared in an audit — and they will be.
The Solution
How Clarito accelerates vendor intake
Ingest any format, see one unified view
Forward the vendor's questionnaire to your Clarito intake address — or upload directly. Within minutes, it's normalized into a unified controls view regardless of whether the vendor sent a CSV, XLSX, structured PDF, or a SIG Lite / CAIQ-style portal export. Your analyst sees consistent columns: questionnaire item, mapped control, current response, gap status.
The 12 built-in format parsers cover the most common questionnaire styles used across the VRM/GRC industry. Formats not covered are flagged for manual review rather than silently mis-parsed.
We were spending 6 weeks on every new vendor — cross-referencing their questionnaire answers against our policy documents manually. Clarito collapsed that to a few days of actual review.
Mara Osei
Information Security Manager — Regional financial services firm
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