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Artificial Intelligence
Your team is probably already using AI, whether that’s drafting, analysis, estimating, customer service or software with AI built in. The question clients, insurers and tender assessors are starting to ask is: who decided how it’s used, and how do you know it’s under control?
ISO/IEC 42001 is the answer. It’s the international standard for an AI management system, and it can be certified. I help UK SMEs put in place a proportionate version of it, without a heavy bureaucracy.
Is it relevant to you?
It applies to organisations that develop, provide or use AI, so you don’t need to be a tech company. It’s relevant if:
- Your staff use AI tools for work, with or without formal approval.
- You’ve been asked about AI in a tender, supplier questionnaire or client audit.
- You supply software, products or services that contain AI.
- You already hold ISO 9001, 14001, 45001 or 27001 and want AI covered in the same system.
What it covers
ISO 42001 follows the same structure as the other ISO standards, so it fits alongside them. It asks you to:
- Understand where and why AI is used in your business, and who is affected.
- Set a clear policy and assign responsibilities.
- Assess the risks and impacts, including data, bias, accuracy and reliance on suppliers.
- Put proportionate controls in place across the AI lifecycle, from choosing a tool to retiring it.
- Monitor, audit and review, and keep improving.
How I help
- A conversation. I’ll find out what AI you use now, what you plan to use, and what’s driving the need.
- An AI inventory and gap review. A focused look at your current position against the standard, in plain English with clear priorities.
- Building it together. A short policy, a risk and impact process, supplier checks and practical staff guidance, written for how you work.
- Training. Awareness sessions so everyone knows what is and isn’t allowed, and why.
- Audit and certification support. Internal audit, management review and preparation for your certification body, if you want to certify.
Already certified to another ISO standard? Most of the work builds on what you have, with one management review, one set of internal audits and one system. See Integrated Management Systems →
Why work with me
- Independent. I’m not tied to any certification body or software vendor, so I won’t push a tool you don’t need.
- Auditor-led. I know what assessors look for.
- Practical. The aim is a system proportionate to your size that your team will actually follow.
- Practised, not just preached. I use AI in my own consultancy under the same rules I’d ask of you. Read how I use AI →
Contact Trudie for a copy of “ISO Terms in Plain English”
or request a Gap Analysis Checklist for any standard.
07795 802 982
trudie@tlnconsulting.co.uk
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