AI system inventory across your organization, including internally built models, fine-tuned models, and embedded third-party AI
Ai Management System
ISO 42001 Certification
Ai Management System
ISO 42001 Certification
Prove Your AI Systems Are Governed, Before a Regulator, Customer, or Incident Forces the Question
ISO 42001 certification is the world's first certifiable standard for AI management systems, and it's quickly becoming the reference point customers and regulators expect. We help you build responsible AI governance around the systems you're actually deploying, and get certified without slowing down the product roadmap that's driving your AI investment in the first place.
The challenge
The Problem We're Usually Called In For
Most organizations deploying AI have moved faster than their governance has. A model gets fine-tuned on data nobody formally reviewed for that use. A vendor's AI feature gets embedded into a product without anyone assessing its risk. A customer's procurement team asks how you manage AI risk, and the honest answer is that nobody's written it down yet.
We work with CISOs, Heads of AI/ML, General Counsel, and CTOs at organizations building or deploying AI systems at meaningful scale, particularly in SaaS, financial services, and healthcare. Some of you are responding to a customer's AI governance requirement. Some are getting ahead of incoming regulation like the EU AI Act. Others simply want a defensible answer when someone asks how your AI systems are actually managed.
Scope
What the Certification Process Covers
Gap analysis against ISO 42001, benchmarked against your current AI governance, if any exists
AI risk assessment covering bias, explainability, data quality, and misuse potential for each system in scope
Data governance review specific to training, fine-tuning, and inference data
Human oversight and accountability structure design, so decisions about AI systems have clear ownership
Third-party and vendor AI risk review, including foundation model providers and embedded AI features
Impact assessment processes for new AI systems before they go into production
Internal audit support and certification body liaison through Stage 1 and Stage 2
Engagement
How the Engagement Works
A proven 7-step consulting process from discovery to sustained process excellence.
Step 01
Discovery & Scoping
Step 02
AI Risk & Gap Assessment
Step 03
Governance Build
Step 04
Internal Audit & Management Review
Step 05
Certification Support
A short call to inventory your AI systems, understand what's driving certification, and agree on scope before any assessment starts.
We assess each AI system in scope for risk and benchmark your current governance against ISO 42001's requirements.
We help design the policies, oversight structures, and impact assessment processes your AI management system needs, built around how your teams actually ship AI features.
We run the internal audit ISO 42001 requires and support the management review that certification depends on.
We prepare your team for the certification body's audits and help resolve any findings quickly.
Outcomes
Proof, Not Promises
SaaS company embedding a third-party LLM into their core product
the AI inventory found the vendor's model had been integrated without any documented risk assessment, a direct gap under ISO 42001. A retrofitted impact assessment closed it before certification and became a template for future integrations.
Client outcome
Financial services firm using ML for credit risk scoring
the governance review found model decisions had no documented human oversight step. Adding a defined accountability structure closed a gap that would otherwise have drawn regulatory attention independent of certification.
Client outcome
FAQ
Questions We Get Asked Before Signing
Typically four to seven months, depending on how many AI systems are in scope and how much governance already exists.
Yes, ISO 42001's scope covers AI systems your organization develops, deploys, or provides, which includes internally used generative AI tools where they carry meaningful risk.
ISO 42001 certification doesn't guarantee EU AI Act compliance, but the governance structures it requires overlap significantly, so it puts you well ahead of that regulatory requirement rather than starting from zero.
Yes, and many clients do, since the two management systems share structural similarities and can be integrated to reduce duplicated audit effort.
We build impact assessment processes to run alongside development, not gate it entirely, so new AI features can still ship on a reasonable timeline with documented risk sign-off.
Certification runs on a three-year cycle with annual surveillance audits, and given how fast AI capabilities move, we recommend more frequent internal reviews than the minimum requires.
Ready to Govern Your AI Before Someone Else Makes You?
AI governance is moving from optional to expected faster than almost any other compliance area. ISO 42001 certification puts you ahead of that curve instead of scrambling to catch up when a customer or regulator asks first.
Schedule a 30-minute AI governance call and find out where your exposure is. When you reach out, we'll ask for your name, work email, company, role, and a brief note on the AI systems you're deploying. That's enough for us to come prepared.