Free AI Vendor Due-Diligence Questionnaire Generator
Draft a due-diligence questionnaire to send an AI vendor before you buy or renew, so you can vet their security, privacy, data handling, and compliance posture. Answer a short guided form, generate the questionnaire, then download it as Word or PDF. It is free and needs no sign-up. Your details are processed securely to write the questions and are never stored, sold, or used for training.
AI vendor due diligence is the process a buyer runs to check that an AI vendor is safe to work with: how it secures data, whether your data trains its models, where data is processed, which certifications and frameworks it meets, and how it handles privacy and incidents. This free tool assembles a questionnaire covering those areas from a short form, grouped by topic, and lets you download it as Word or PDF, with no paywall and no sign-up.
Questionnaire details
Tell us who is buying and, if you like, which vendor you are assessing. You get a complete AI vendor due-diligence questionnaire, grouped by area, ready to download as Word or PDF.
Buyer and vendor
Your questionnaire will appear here. Fill in the details on the left and select Generate questionnaire.
How the AI vendor due-diligence generator works
Describe the buyer and vendor
Enter your organization as the buyer and, optionally, the vendor name, what they provide, and any concerns you want to emphasize.
Generate your questionnaire
The tool writes a questionnaire grouped by area, covering the vendor's security, privacy, data handling, AI governance, and compliance posture. Results come back in seconds.
Download and send
Export the questionnaire as a PDF or an editable Word file, adapt it to your procurement process, then send it to the vendor.
Free, private, and built from real vendor assessments
Most questionnaire builders sit behind a lead form or keep a copy of what you enter. This one asks for no sign-up and keeps nothing. Writing the questions needs a language model, so your details are sent to our server and processed there, then discarded. The questions are worded to probe the things that actually matter when you assess an AI vendor, from data training and residency to certifications like SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 27001.
We wrote this from the questionnaires we answer as an AI vendor ourselves, not from a checklist template: see BlockSurvey's AI Policy for how we answer buyers who assess us.
Processed, never kept
Your details are processed securely to write the questions and are never stored, sold, or used for training. Keep the form to high-level details and leave contracts, credentials, and confidential data out.
No account required
No sign-up and no email wall. A fair-use rate limit is the only thing standing between you and the tool.
Free, real download
The complete questionnaire as an editable Word file or PDF at no cost, not a watermarked sample.
What the questionnaire covers
A structured set of questions generated from your details, grouped so you can hand it to a vendor and score the answers:
- Company and product overview, including how the AI is built and deployed.
- Data handling: what data the vendor collects, processes, and retains.
- Training data and model use, including whether your data trains their models.
- Security controls, certifications, and audit reports such as SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 27001.
- Privacy and GDPR, including lawful basis, DPAs, and data subject rights.
- Sub-processors, model providers, and data residency.
- AI governance against frameworks like ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI RMF.
- Human oversight, accuracy, and how the vendor handles model errors.
- Incident response, breach notification, and business continuity.
- Contractual terms, liability, and exit and data-deletion commitments.
- A counsel-review legal notice added to the end of the document.
What to assess in an AI vendor
AI vendor due diligence goes past a standard security review. Alongside the usual controls, you need to know how the vendor treats your data at the model layer and how it governs the AI itself. The questions in this generator are grouped to cover both.
| Area | Why it matters | Evidence to ask for |
|---|---|---|
| Security | Confirms the vendor protects the data you send and the systems it runs on. | A current SOC 2 report or ISO/IEC 27001 certificate. |
| Data and training | Tells you whether your inputs are used to train or improve their models. | A written data-use and training-opt-out statement in the contract. |
| Privacy | Confirms a lawful basis and your rights as a controller under the GDPR. | A GDPR Article 28 data processing agreement and a sub-processor list. |
| AI governance | Shows the vendor manages AI risk, not just infrastructure risk. | Alignment with ISO/IEC 42001 or the NIST AI RMF. |
| Resilience | Tells you how the vendor responds when something goes wrong. | Incident response, breach-notification terms, and continuity plans. |
Built for every team assessing AI vendors
Whether you are buying your first AI tool or renewing a critical one, a written questionnaire is what turns a vague worry into a clear set of answers you can score and file. This generator gives you that starting point, and it pairs well with an AI survey platform when you want to collect those answers or run the assessment as a form.
Procurement & vendor management
Send every AI vendor the same structured questionnaire without starting from a blank page.
Security & IT
Go past a generic security review with questions aimed at the AI itself.
Privacy & compliance
Get the DPA, sub-processor, and data-use questions on record before you sign.
Legal & risk
A framework-aware draft to review and tailor, not a generic template.
Founders & ops at startups
Vet an AI vendor properly even without a dedicated security team.
Vendors preparing to be assessed
See the questions buyers will ask so you can answer them before they do.
You are vetting your AI vendors. What about the tools you collect answers with?
The moment you send this questionnaire, you become a data controller for the responses. BlockSurvey is an AI survey platform, encrypted end to end, with a published AI policy you can cite in your own vendor assessment, so responses are never sold, mined, or used to train models.
