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Quick summary
  • The Questionnaire Assistant, a mode of Ask Assuric, drafts answers to a customer’s security questionnaire from your documents and evidence.
  • Read every answer and its sources before sending: you’re accountable for what you submit.
  • The assistant drafts the NHS DSPT, but you copy the answers into the DSPT portal yourself.
Customers send supplier security questionnaires, and this mode answers them from your workspace, so you don’t rewrite the same answers.

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Answer a questionnaire

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Open the assistant in Questionnaire Assistant mode

Press Ctrl+J, or click Ask at the top of the sidebar, and choose Questionnaire Assistant.
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Paste the questions or upload the file

Paste the questions into the message, or click + and choose Upload file. For example:
Here is a security questionnaire from a GP practice customer. Please answer each question from our policies.
  1. Do you have a documented information security policy, and when was it last reviewed?
  2. Do you carry out multi-factor authentication for staff access to systems holding patient data?
  3. Do you hold Cyber Essentials certification?
  4. How do you report and manage data breaches?
Click Send.
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Open the questionnaire

The assistant builds a Security Questionnaire. When its card shows Completed, click Open questionnaire.
Questionnaire Assistant chat with a completed Security Questionnaire open in the viewer beside it

The chat on the left, and the questionnaire the assistant built on the right. Each question has its drafted answer beside it.

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Read each answer

The viewer lists each question with its answer and a Citations number.
The Security Questionnaire viewer with four questions, their answers and a citation count for each

The completed questionnaire. Each answer has a copy button and a regenerate button, and a citation count on the right.

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Check its sources

Click a Citations number to see the answer’s source documents:
  • Click Open source to read it beside the questionnaire, with the cited passages highlighted and a list of citations to jump between.
  • Use Open in editor to go to the document and Back to questionnaire to return.
  • A web link citation opens with an Open Link in New Tab button instead.
A citation popover naming the Cyber Essentials Certificate with an Open source link

Clicking a citation number shows the source. Here, the answer about Cyber Essentials cites the Cyber Essentials Certificate.

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Fix what's wrong, then copy the answers out

Use the tools below, then copy the answers into the customer’s form or reply.

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Work on the answers

In Add question, the Section list files the question under a section, or General if you have none. To return to a questionnaire, open its chat from Chat History and click Open questionnaire. Your edits and added questions are kept.

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When an answer is weak

Answers can only cite what’s in your workspace, so keep your policies and evidence up to date.
  • No source found: the answer reads “Information not found in your Assuric workspace.” with no citations. The policy or evidence isn’t in Assuric yet: add it, then click the answer’s regenerate button.
  • Source doesn’t back the answer: read the source, then edit or regenerate the answer.
AI can make mistakes, and a questionnaire answer is a statement to a customer, so you’re accountable for what you submit. Check each one against its source, especially dates, certifications and anything about how you handle patient data.

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For the DSPT

The same mode drafts answers for the NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT), with these differences:
  • Start from the home page: click Complete on the Complete your DSPT assessment prompt, which shows on your home page only while your DSPT submission is due for renewal. The assistant opens with the DSPT questionnaire already loaded, so there’s nothing to paste or upload.
  • Asking in the chat: this doesn’t start the assessment.
    • In Auto mode, “Help me complete my DSPT assessment” returns where you stand (progress, requirements met, outstanding tasks) and the steps to submit.
    • In Questionnaire Assistant mode, it asks you to upload the file or paste the questions.
  • Copy the answers into the portal: the DSPT has no API, so for each answer, click the copy button and paste it into the matching question in the DSPT portal.

DSPT: what it is and how Assuric tracks it

The DSPT’s categories, requirements and yearly versioning.

Ask Assuric: what it can do

The other modes, sources and settings.