
Egidijus used to give enterprise software demos for a living. They usually went great, but big companies never bought a licence. Well, one of them bought the whole startup instead.
Thirteen years later, he is the one sending out 300-row security questionnaires. It took him that long to learn to stop worrying and love the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet isn’t asking whether a product is good. It’s asking for evidence that trusting the company behind it is a reasonable decision.
Now that anyone can fill one in with an LLM in an afternoon, polished answers no longer count as evidence.
This talk is about what does count, for anyone building something that a large organisation has to trust