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Evidently, a lot.
Evident ships every day. Since mid-July that’s more than 70 new features, plus hundreds of smaller improvements. Here are the highlights from each week, and what they do for you.
A new Trust Center, and answers that say what is left
- Pick a side when your sources disagree When two sources say different things, the answer shows each side and the evidence behind it. You pick one on the web, in Slack or in Teams, and Evident offers to update the saved answers that relied on the other side.
- Evident answers what it can, then asks When your evidence covers only part of a security question, Evident answers that part with sources and asks one direct question about the rest. Reply under the answer on the web, or in Slack and Teams forms.
- A new Trust Center for your buyers Your Trust Center has a new look and lives at evident.security, and old links still work. Buyers request access once, stay signed in until their access ends, and read watermarked PDFs right in the browser.
- Every visitor in one list Invitations, approved visitors and access requests sit in one Visitor access list. Members can invite buyers from the app, chat, Slack or Teams. Approvers get an alert and a reminder, you renew access for the length you choose, and the Activity Log shows each visitor’s full history.
- Questions go to the right person Smart Routing now covers Word and portal questionnaires. It assigns only the questions that still need a person after Evident answers, and tells each assignee why the question came to them.
- Re-answers only when they matter A new upload re-answers only the open questionnaires it is relevant to, so statuses stay put and your edits are not interrupted.
- More from your documents and Notion Long policies keep their details, SOC 2 and ISO questions are answered from your reports, and Notion imports keep properties, tables and links, with a faster page picker and hourly sync.
Plus 33 smaller improvements, across chat, Slack and Teams, sign-in, questionnaire downloads, the Knowledge Base and assignments.
RFIs, RFPs and review requests
- RFIs and RFPs as their own questionnaire type Choose RFI or RFP when you upload in the app, Slack or Teams, and Evident answers from your approved company and product content, with the same sources and review as a security questionnaire. In Slack, Evident can spot one for you.
- A live Slack card for every questionnaire A questionnaire dropped in Slack gets a card that shows its progress while Evident works, and lets you change the customer from its side panel. Questions assigned to you arrive as cards you can answer from.
- Upload older .xls files Send Evident a legacy .xls questionnaire as it is. You get the questions and an answered .xlsx workbook back.
- Clear open questions one at a time After the first pass, Evident says what it answered and why each remaining question needs you. One button walks you through them in Slack or Teams, with a skip on every step.
- Choose which questionnaires to fill on a portal When a portal holds several questionnaires, pick the ones you want before Evident starts filling. The others stay untouched.
- Review requests Ask a teammate to check answers Evident already wrote. They see how many answers wait for them, get reminders by email, Slack or Teams, and can approve from the link in the reminder.
- Portals with frames, pop-ups and custom dropdowns Evident fills portals built with embedded frames, pop-up dialogs and custom dropdowns, and sends exact choice values, multi-select answers and attached files.
Plus 65 smaller improvements, across answer history, Word and Excel output, chat and MCP, the Knowledge Base and integrations.
More of Evident in Slack, Teams and MCP
- New actions in Slack, Teams and MCP Invite people, send reminders, read or change any answer, reopen questionnaires, resolve conflicts, send portal answers, manage Trust Center groups, updates and subprocessors, and pull reports from Reporting. Each action follows the same permissions as the app.
- Corrections become knowledge When you fix a fact in an answer, Evident saves that fact and uses it on later questionnaires, even if none of your documents say it. Changes to wording alone are not saved as facts.
- The questionnaire reads like your file Questions follow the order of the original file in one list, follow-ups are numbered 9a and 9b, and a Next gap button takes you to the next question that needs you.
- Every customer in one place A customer’s questionnaires sit together on one card, with a page for everything you have sent them.
- Answer from Confluence Connect Confluence on any plan, choose the pages to sync, and answers come from the docs your team already keeps there.
- Stop and resume portal runs Stop a portal run at any point and pick it up later. When every browser is busy, a run waits its turn and tells you so.
- One-time instructions at upload Add an instruction when you upload a questionnaire, and Evident follows it for that questionnaire only, ahead of your usual answer style.
- Approve Trust Center requests from Slack or Teams Approve or deny a buyer’s access request from the notice itself, and choose which channels those notices go to.
- Recipient watermarks on questionnaire attachments Documents you attach to a questionnaire can carry the receiving company’s name as a watermark.
Plus 77 smaller improvements, across Google Drive, Notion, Slack, the Knowledge Base and the Trust Center.
The right documents for each audience
- Show each audience only the documents meant for it Set Trust Center rights per audience and per customer company, so a prospect, a customer and a partner each see the right set without manual sharing.
- Answer from GitHub and Notion Sync documents from your GitHub organizations, and pick single Notion pages or whole trees, so answers come from the docs your engineers already keep.
- Portal sign-in from 1Password Evident signs in to customer portals with credentials from your 1Password vault, so nobody passes passwords around.
- Hand out work in one move Assign many questions at once, and undo it if you picked the wrong person.
- Browse the Knowledge Base by source and folder Open each source one level at a time, filter by what is shareable or on your Trust Center, and change visibility or remove a whole folder in one step.
- Choose the framework badges on your Trust Center Badges for 17 more frameworks, and you decide which ones appear on your public page.
Plus 85 smaller improvements, across the Knowledge Base, portals, Trust Center seals, integrations, Slack and Teams, and emails.
TrustMind becomes Evident
- Evident, everywhere you work The app, emails and the Slack and Teams bot carry the Evident name, and the bot still answers to “TrustMind” so nobody’s habits break.
- Settings you can find your way around One sidebar for people, permissions, answer style, notifications and workflow, plus a single catalog for every integration.
- See exactly what Google Drive is syncing See which folders sync, how many files each one brings in and why a file was skipped, and remove a folder from sync in one step.
- Suggested answers that explain themselves When Evident infers an answer, it says what it was based on, so a reviewer can accept it or change it quickly.
- Markdown, MDX and HTML files as knowledge Upload Markdown, MDX and HTML files to the Knowledge Base, where they are previewed and used for answers.
Plus 23 smaller improvements, across conflict checks, portals and Slack.
Less effort in Slack
- Quicker answers in Slack Type “yes” in a direct message to approve, see the question above any field still open, and ask Evident who holds a questionnaire’s open questions or set a due date right from chat.
- A check before you hand off Evident warns you before you hand a questionnaire that still has open questions to someone else.
Plus 9 smaller improvements, across portals, comments and Knowledge Base summaries.
Settle conflicts from chat
- Settle a knowledge conflict from chat Resolve a disagreement between sources right in the conversation, without opening the app.
- Portals that load as you scroll Evident reads and fills portals that load their questions as you scroll, and a portal waiting on you says what it needs.
Plus 27 smaller improvements, across Slack answering, custom rules, skipped-file messages, Reporting and Teams.
Answers for the product they are buying
- Answer for the product they are buying Tell Evident which products a document or questionnaire covers, so answers come from that product’s evidence only.
- Undo shows what it reverses An undo lists every follow-up it will remove, so you know exactly what changes.
Plus 16 smaller improvements, across portals, Google Drive, the dashboard, member management, and Slack and Teams delivery.
Smoother for everyone who answers
- Search long answer lists Questions with seven or more choices have a search box, so nobody scrolls through a wall of options.
- Start with a questionnaire on day one A new team can upload its first questionnaire before adding any documents, and see results in the first session.
- Deactivate a teammate everywhere at once Turn off a person’s access across the web app, Slack and Teams in one step, and restore it later with their role intact.
Plus 19 smaller improvements, across portals, assignments, Excel output, voice answering and chat.
Finish every questionnaire
- Finish a questionnaire on purpose, even with gaps Complete a file or portal questionnaire that still has open questions, after seeing exactly how many are left.
- Document requests get documents When a question asks you to attach a document, Evident treats it as a request for a file, not a question to answer in a paragraph.
Plus 21 smaller improvements, across portals, Excel and Word output, Slack and Teams, follow-up answers and Reporting.
More ways to close out work
- Mark portal questionnaires complete Close out a portal questionnaire in Evident, the same way as a file questionnaire.
- Questionnaires without a customer Give an internal or one-off questionnaire its own name, with no customer attached.
- Data types on your subprocessor list Pick data types from a shared list, and buyers see them as consistent labels on your Trust Center.
Plus 14 smaller improvements, across Word and Excel output, Google Drive, Teams, comments, Reporting, Trust Center navigation and chat.
Show buyers more
- A subprocessor list on your Trust Center Keep your subprocessors in one list and publish it on your Trust Center.
- Preview your Trust Center before publishing See the public page as a visitor or an approved buyer would, before any change goes live.
- Workbooks that print their choices When a spreadsheet lists the options inside each answer cell, Evident marks the right one and leaves the others in place.
- Evident asks when an upload is unclear If Evident can’t tell how to read a questionnaire, it asks you, then carries on with your answer.
Plus 12 smaller improvements, across Excel output, comments, Google Drive, Teams, the Trust Center and the Knowledge Base.
Control who sees what, and for how long
- Trust Center access can expire Set how long buyer access lasts and how often it is reviewed, and renew people when their review comes up.
- An updates feed for your Trust Center Post updates to your Trust Center, and subscribers get them by email.
- Watermarks on shared documents Turn on watermarks for documents buyers download from your Trust Center.
Plus 16 smaller improvements, across the Knowledge Base, the Trust Center, Excel output, integrations and Slack.
Tighter control of your Trust Center
- Know when buyers ask for access Admins are notified when someone requests access to the Trust Center.
- Take back access in one step Revoke a buyer’s Trust Center access from the admin page.
- Shorter-lived access links Trust Center access links expire after 14 days.
Plus 13 smaller improvements, across the Trust Center, Slack and questionnaire status.