ISO/IEC 42001 & EU AI Act Readiness
Organizations building or deploying AI are being asked for ISO/IEC 42001 certification and EU AI Act conformity. This engagement inventories your AI systems, classifies them under the AI Act risk tiers, assesses the AI management system against ISO 42001 Annex A, and produces the policies, impact assessments and roadmap needed to reach certification readiness.
In scope
- AI system inventory and EU AI Act risk classification
- ISO/IEC 42001 clause and Annex A gap analysis
- AI risk and impact assessment method
- AI policy, roles and lifecycle controls
- Certification readiness roadmap
You receive
- AI system register with risk tiers
- ISO 42001 gap analysis
- AI governance policy set
- Readiness roadmap and audit preparation plan
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Essential AI Governance Gap Analysis
$7.5K
Up to 5 AI systems: inventory, AI Act classification and ISO 42001 gap analysis
- ai systems
- 5
Advanced ISO 42001 Readiness
$18K
Up to 20 AI systems: adds policy set, impact assessment method, role design and internal-audit preparation
- ai systems
- 20
Enterprise AI Management System Program
$38K
Portfolio of AI systems or high-risk AI: adds conformity documentation, supplier controls, training and certification-audit support
- ai systems
- 100
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a readiness & governance assessment engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Scoping & framework selection
The standard or regulation, the systems and the business units in scope are fixed.
You see · Your audit or regulatory driver.
02Evidence collection & interviews
Policies, configurations and records reviewed; control owners interviewed.
You see · Documents and time with control owners.
03Gap analysis
Each requirement mapped to current state: met, partial or missing, with the evidence behind it.
You see · A clear gap register.
04Roadmap & evidence plan
Prioritized remediation with owners, and the evidence an auditor will ask for.
You see · A plan you can execute or hand to us.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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