Quick answer

If every enterprise deal triggers a security review, you need three things: a framework certification path (usually ISO 27001 or SOC 2), a public Trust Center where prospects can self-serve answers, and AI-assisted questionnaire responses. OptiTech's Professional plan bundles all three, so the security review stops being the longest step in your sales cycle.

The pattern: compliance as a sales requirement

For B2B SaaS companies, compliance pressure rarely comes from a regulator first. It comes from procurement. A bank, an insurer, or a public-sector buyer sends a 200-row security questionnaire, and the deal stalls until someone answers it. Each questionnaire takes 10 to 20 hours to fill in manually, and the questions repeat across customers with slightly different wording.

The fix is to do the work once and reuse it everywhere:

  1. Build one control set mapped to ISO 27001 and SOC 2, with evidence collected automatically from your stack.
  2. Publish a Trust Center, a public security page showing your certifications, subprocessors, and control status. Many buyers accept it instead of a custom questionnaire. See how to share a read-only view of your compliance status.
  3. Let AI draft questionnaire answers from your actual control data, so a 200-row Excel file becomes an hour of review instead of two days of writing. See can AI answer security questionnaires for you.

What to look for in a platform

  • Evidence automation, not document storage. If the platform can't verify MFA coverage or offboarding through integrations, you'll still do the work by hand.
  • Cross-mapped frameworks. Your enterprise customers in the EU will start referencing NIS2 and DORA. One control should satisfy all of them at once.
  • A questionnaire answering workflow with human review before anything is sent.
  • EU data residency, because your customers' security teams will ask where your compliance data lives too.

When DORA enters the picture

If your customers include banks or insurers, DORA makes them contractually responsible for their ICT suppliers, which means you. Expect stricter contract clauses and a demand to appear in their ICT register. A platform with supplier-facing compliance sharing lets you answer once and share the result with every regulated customer.

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