Skip to main content
AI doesn’t set its own limits. We do.

Services

Four ways to work with us

Every engagement is delivered by our team — the legal work and the technical work happen in the same room, at the same time. No handoffs, no "we'll check with our technical partner".

ai42001 offers four ISO/IEC 42001 engagements: a Gap Assessment to find out where you stand, a Full AIMS Implementation to build the management system, Certification Audit Support to get you through Stage 1 and Stage 2, and a Fractional AI Governance Retainer to keep the system alive afterwards. Most clients start with the Gap Assessment and continue into implementation.

  1. 013–4 weeks

    AI Governance Gap Assessment

    An AI governance gap assessment is a structured review that measures your current practices against all of ISO/IEC 42001's clause requirements and Annex A controls, then reports precisely which ones you already meet, partially meet, or fail. ai42001 delivers this in 3–4 weeks as a clause-by-clause scorecard, a prioritised remediation roadmap with effort estimates, and a certification readiness verdict you can take to your board.

    Timeline
    3–4 weeks
    Your effort
    4–6 hours of your team's time per week
    Pricing
    Fixed fee — quoted after a 30-minute scoping call
  2. 023–6 months, depending on scope and AI system count

    Full AIMS Implementation

    A full AIMS implementation is the work of designing and operating an AI Management System that satisfies every ISO/IEC 42001 requirement, from AI policy and risk methodology through to impact assessments, control implementation, internal audit, and management review. ai42001 delivers this in 3–6 months and, unusually, builds the technical controls alongside the documentation: our team implements the AI system registry, evaluation gates, logging, and evidence automation directly in your stack, and writes the policy set, risk and impact assessment methodology, and contractual language that makes it legally defensible.

    Timeline
    3–6 months, depending on scope and AI system count
    Your effort
    A named internal owner at ~1 day per week, plus engineering time for control work
    Pricing
    Fixed-fee phases, or monthly for longer scopes
  3. 034–8 weeks, plus audit days

    Certification Audit Support

    Certification audit support is hands-on preparation and representation for your ISO/IEC 42001 Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits, including evidence assembly, a mock audit, interview coaching, live support during audit days, and nonconformity remediation afterwards. ai42001 runs this over 4–8 weeks: we assemble the audit pack against the certification body's own checklist, run a full mock audit with the same questioning style the auditor will use, and prepare each interviewee for the questions they will personally be asked.

    Timeline
    4–8 weeks, plus audit days
    Your effort
    Interview prep sessions for 4–8 named people
    Pricing
    Fixed fee per audit stage
  4. 04Monthly, 3-month minimum, cancel with 30 days' notice

    Fractional AI Governance Retainer

    A fractional AI governance retainer gives you ongoing access to a senior AI governance lawyer and a senior AI/DevOps engineer on a monthly basis, covering new AI system reviews, regulatory change monitoring, surveillance audit preparation, customer security questionnaires, and the internal audit and management review cycles ISO/IEC 42001 requires. ai42001 offers this from a defined number of days per month with a named response SLA.

    Timeline
    Monthly, 3-month minimum, cancel with 30 days' notice
    Your effort
    A standing monthly review plus ad-hoc access
    Pricing
    Monthly retainer, tiered by days per month

Not sure which one

Most people start with the gap assessment

It is the cheapest way to find out whether the rest is worth doing, and it produces the roadmap everything else is scoped against. If you already know what you need, say so on the call and we will skip straight to scoping it.

Book a 30-minute callRead the FAQ first