Launching ResponsePilot

There's a specific kind of energy that comes with shipping something new. Not the big-company launch energy with coordinated press and polished keynote decks. The scrappy, quieter version. The one where it's mostly you, (maybe) a handful of early users, and a problem that feels sharp enough to matter and interesting enough to hold your attention.

Last week, I launched ResponsePilot.

Over the past couple of years, I noticed a change in the B2B landscape, though mostly from the buyer side. Vendor security questionnaires have gone from something that seemed unique to the enterprise sales process to something that now feels more and more ubiquitous. As an engineer on the buying side, when procurement would jump in and send a questionnaire, I knew it was going to throw the brakes on everything and mean that I had to wait much longer to get the shiny new toy that I wanted.

After chatting with a few people who spent more time on the selling side, it was clear they were just as frustrating. They tend show up right when a deal is getting real. They're clearly important for risk mitigation; but for small teams, they're disruptive in a way that doesn't show up on a roadmap.

Most growing companies don't lack answers, they lack a system. Questionnaire responses live in old spreadsheets, scattered across various docs and compliance tools, and, more often than not, someone's memory. Each new questionnaire feels like starting from scratch.

ResponsePilot is my attempt to fix that.

At a fundamental level, ResponsePilot helps teams reuse and refine their documentation and past questionnaire answers so they can respond faster and with more confidence. It's not about replacing judgment, it's about giving teams leverage when it matters.

But if I'm honest, this post isn't just about the product. It's about the process of building it in the open. Talking to founders. Hearing the same story three different ways. Watching a vague frustration turn into a clearly defined problem. Then slowly shaping software around it.

There's something deeply satisfying about narrowing scope instead of expanding it. About choosing a wedge. About saying, "This is who this is for," and letting everything else fall away.

ResponsePilot is still early. It will change. It will get better. The edges will smooth out. That's what I find most exciting.

Shipping is clarifying. Once something is live, it stops being an idea and starts being a responsibility. People start to use it. They hopefully start to rely on it. They tell you where it breaks. They tell you how to make it better.

And that's the part I'm most looking forward to.