ISO 42001, AI management
system, made practical
The world's first AI management system standard is here. ISO 42001 turns responsible AI into an operating model, not a slide deck. VerifyWise translates its requirements into a plan with owners, timelines, and evidence your auditor can trust.
What is ISO 42001?
ISO 42001 is an international standard that sets requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving an Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS). It is built for organizations that provide, develop, or use AI systems, making responsible AI measurable and auditable.
Why this matters now: It gives you a structured way to govern AI, prove accountability, and prepare for regulation, while keeping innovation moving.
AI Providers & Developers
Build or deploy AI systems
AI Users
Rely on third-party AI in products or workflows
Regulated Industries
Need to prove AI governance to customers & regulators
ISO-certified Organizations
Integrates with ISO 27001 & ISO 9001
90 Days to Audit-Ready
Your implementation roadmap with clear phases and deliverables
- Confirm scope, roles, and objectives
- Import systems into model inventory
- Stand up policy set and training plan
- Run risk and impact assessments on priority systems
- Implement high-value controls
- Turn on logging and evidence capture
- Complete internal audit and management review
- Finish Statement of Applicability
- Generate Stage 1 evidence pack
- Dry-run interviews with owners
- Collect samples for Stage 2
- Lock improvement plan and schedule audit
38 Annex A Controls, Simplified
Apply controls based on risk - you justify choices in your Statement of Applicability
- AI policy
- Objectives
- Roles
- Competence
- Awareness
- Requirements management
- Change control
- V&V
- Deployment gates
- Data quality
- Dataset suitability
- Model versioning
- Evaluation
- Risk methods
- Thresholds
- Treatment
- Acceptance
- Model cards
- User information
- Logging
- Traceability
- Oversight design
- Fallback
- Rollback
- Incident response
- Threat modeling
- Adversarial robustness
- Vulnerability handling
- Supplier evaluation
- Contracts
- Intake
- Monitoring
- Internal audits
- Management reviews
- Corrective actions
- KPIs
What Auditors Will Look For
Certification uses a two-stage audit by an accredited body, then annual surveillance
- AIMS documentation
- Scope & policies
- Risk & impact methods
- Control design
- Internal audit
- Management review
- Control implementation
- Process interviews
- Sample testing
- Lifecycle records
- Performance data
- Incident handling
- Control updates
- New risks addressed
- Corrective actions
- Continuous improvement
- Scope changes
- Recertification prep
Evidence Your Auditor Will Expect
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