ISO 42001 For Companies Building With AI
ISO/IEC 42001:2023 is the AI management system standard. If you ship AI features or answer procurement questions about AI governance, Auditara runs the programme: AI risk and impact assessment built in, a guided intake, and your documents generated from your answers.
Who Needs It
Companies Building AI Products
Buyers now ask how the AI is governed before they buy it.
Companies Deploying AI in Decisions
Credit, hiring, pricing: where AI affects outcomes, governance is expected.
Vendors Into Regulated Industries
Due diligence increasingly covers AI alongside security.
Teams Preparing for the EU AI Act
A management system that organises the evidence those obligations expect.
Why ISO 42001 Matters
AI Questions Are Now in Procurement
Buyers ask what your model does with their data, who reviews it, and what happens when it gets something wrong. ISO 42001 is the structured answer.
Regulation Is Arriving
AI governance expectations are hardening across markets. A certified management system gives you a defensible position rather than a policy document written after the fact.
Governance Is a System, Not a Memo
Roles, risk assessment, impact assessment, monitoring, and review. Auditara enforces the sequence so your AI story holds up under an audit.
What Is Inside the ISO 42001 Programme
The lifecycle, the assessments, and the document set the standard expects.
21 Activities Across 4 Phases
Define and Establish, Assess and Treat, Implement and Operate, Audit and Certify, each with a deliverable and a gate criterion before the phase can close.
AI Risk and Impact Assessment
Assess the risks your AI systems carry and the impact they have on people, recorded inside the programme rather than in a side spreadsheet.
Generated Documents
AI policy, roles and responsibilities, and the supporting document set generated from your intake answers and exported as branded Word or PDF.
Audit Ready Evidence
Evidence linked per activity, approvals recorded with sign-off, and a read only auditor room you open when the audit is booked.
How Auditara Runs It
Book the Call
Fifteen minutes with a PECB certified ISO 42001 Lead Auditor and Lead Implementer. We confirm which AI systems are in scope and what your route looks like, then your workspace opens.
Answer the Intake
A guided intake asks about your organisation and your AI systems in plain English, and sets the programme up from your answers.
Assess and Document
Run the AI risk and impact assessments, give every action an owner and a date, and generate your document set. AI drafts wording from your notes, which you confirm.
Reach Audit Ready
Evidence organised per activity, documents approved, an auditor room ready to open. On Guided Implementation, we run this with you to a written guarantee.
Two Ways to Run It
At Your Own Pace
Readiness Workspace: the guided workspace, free to start, opened after your onboarding call.
With Us Delivering
Guided Implementation: we run the programme with you to audit readiness, with a written guarantee. Scope is agreed on your onboarding call.
Every route starts with a call with a certified ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 Lead Implementer.
Book A CallQuestions
What is ISO 42001?
ISO/IEC 42001:2023 is the management system standard for artificial intelligence. It asks how you govern AI systems: the risks they carry, the impact they have on people, and the controls and oversight you put around them.
Do I need ISO 27001 first?
No, but the two sit well together. Many organisations run ISO 27001 for information security and ISO 42001 for their AI story. Auditara runs either on its own or both in the same workspace.
Who is ISO 42001 for?
Companies that build AI features, resell AI capability, or answer procurement questions about how their AI is governed. It is the credible answer when a buyer asks what oversight sits behind your model.
Is the control level gap assessment available?
The ISO 42001 lifecycle programme, AI risk assessment, and AI impact assessment are live now. The control level gap assessment is coming next, and it lands in your workspace automatically.
Does Auditara issue the certificate?
No. Certificates are issued by accredited certification bodies after an independent audit. We prepare you, help you choose the body, and coordinate the process. Their fees are separate.
Ready to Get Certified?
Readiness Workspace is free to start. Guided Implementation adds delivery to audit readiness, agreed with you on the call.