Where does the computation happen?
Ask every candidate, us included, and ask for the answer in writing. A stated regional hosting location says nothing about where processing happens or which law applies to it. What sovereignty covers.
2026 landscape of tender and questionnaire response solutions: the grid to help you choose.
No ranking, no “best”: a grid of fourteen verifiable criteria, in which Optivalue.ai appears as one column among the others. It is designed to be reused in your own selection file: filter, compare, request it.
Survey date
25 July 2026. Every cell is dated in the downloadable file.
Source of the cells
The vendors’ public claims, with a link. An absence is written “not stated”, never “does not do it”.
Scope
Named international vendors; the family of young European sovereign players is described as a category, without naming any French vendor.
Corrections
Error reported: corrected within 5 working days, with a date. Write to us.
The grid
14 criteria shown
Criterion Optivalue.ai In-house development Loopio Responsive AutoRFP AutogenAI
Document analysis Included, with a librarian agent and version history Achievable, building blocks available Stated Stated Stated Stated
Automated questionnaire response Multi-tab Excel, Word, PDF, portals via extension Achievable for free text Stated Stated Stated Stated
Proposal or technical-bid generation Included, structured around the criteria in the tender rules Achievable, a strong point of general-purpose assistants Stated Stated Stated Stated
Collaboration and approval workflow Included, named approver required before submission Must be built entirely Stated Stated Stated Stated
Stated integrations SharePoint, Drive, Word, PowerPoint, browsers Achievable, often already in place Stated Stated Stated Stated
Jurisdiction of the publishing entity France (SAS registered in Grasse) Yours for the application; the model vendor’s for the processing Canada United States Australia United Kingdom
Stated hosting location Over 80 countries, chosen by the customer; data and processing in the same instance Your data on your premises; processing depends on the inference service chosen Survey being verified source by source Survey being verified source by source Survey being verified source by source Survey being verified source by source
Stated deployment modes SaaS, private cloud, on-premise including air-gapped Depends on the model; fully offline = model hosted in-house Survey being verified source by source Survey being verified source by source Survey being verified source by source Survey being verified source by source
Stated languages 109 languages, local regulatory vocabulary Broad, depending on the model; local vocabulary needs tooling Survey being verified source by source Survey being verified source by source Survey being verified source by source Survey being verified source by source
Range of questionnaire types covered Tenders, security, DDQ, customer, ESG, external audits One use case at a time Survey being verified source by source Survey being verified source by source Survey being verified source by source Survey being verified source by source
Stated vendor certifications ISO/IEC 27001 (vendor); hosting provider certifications documented separately Yours, if the application falls within your certified scope Survey being verified source by source Survey being verified source by source Survey being verified source by source Survey being verified source by source
Analyst recognition (dated fact) Cited by Gartner in June 2026 (domain-specific models, regulatory compliance); European Sovereignty Award 2026 Not applicable Survey being verified source by source Survey being verified source by source Survey being verified source by source Survey being verified source by source
Help drafting missing documents Gap detected, an expert named, the document co-written from what you already have Will draft without knowing whether the practice exists Not stated on the vendor’s site as of 25/07/2026 Not stated on the vendor’s site as of 25/07/2026 Not stated on the vendor’s site as of 25/07/2026 Not stated on the vendor’s site as of 25/07/2026
Built-in regulatory watch Optivalue Watch, 193 jurisdictions Your responsibility, on an ongoing basis Not stated on the vendor’s site as of 25/07/2026 Not stated on the vendor’s site as of 25/07/2026 Not stated on the vendor’s site as of 25/07/2026 Not stated on the vendor’s site as of 25/07/2026
The family of young European sovereign players
Several recent European vendors address the same category, with regional hosting and a specialised approach. We describe them as a category without naming any French vendor: a named comparison with a player of comparable size adds nothing to your decision and a lot of noise to the market.
Our limits, in our own column
Pricing on quotation, with no public figure. We do not offer self-service access: the demonstration is done on your documents. The evidence mechanism cannot be switched off; that is a choice, not an option.
How to read this grid
Three questions that settle more than a table does
What happens when the answer does not exist?
This is the most discriminating test. A tool that produces a plausible answer anyway exposes you; a tool that declares the gap protects you. Try it during the demonstration, on a question for which you know the evidence is missing.
Who keeps the frameworks up to date?
An answer library ages, and an assessment grid based on an amended text becomes wrong. Ask who maintains this material, how often, and how you are notified.
Reuse this grid in your selection file.
We send it to you as a PDF and a spreadsheet, with the source links and the date of every cell. Add your own criteria: that is what it is for.