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ISO 42001

Our end-to-end ISO 42001 program management helps companies build a formal Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS) to build trust in your AI, future-proof your product, and accelerate enterprise sales.

Enterprise AI Demands a New Standard of Trust.

For SaaS companies leveraging AI, ISO 42001 is the new global standard for responsible and ethical AI governance. Demonstrating this level of maturity is quickly becoming non-negotiable for enterprise buyers. But building and maintaining a formal AIMS is a massive undertaking that can drain your resources and stall innovation.

  • The Hidden Tax of an Internal ISO 42001 Effort

  • What starts as a side project quickly consumes your most valuable resources, draining the time of the very people you need focused on building and scaling your AI features.

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CTO Time Sink

Your CTO gets trapped in audit meetings, trying to decipher a brand-new, complex framework they don't have time to learn.

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Your AI/ML Engineers, Sidelined

Your highest-paid developers are pulled from building models to write policies and chase down evidence, a recipe for missed deadlines.

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A Derailed AI Roadmap

The internal effort becomes a shadow project that slows down critical AI innovation, giving competitors an opening.

Our Three-Phase Methodology for ISO 42001 Certification

A structured journey to build, launch, and maintain a security and AI governance program that buyers trust, not just a compliance checkbox.

01

Assess

We start with a comprehensive gap assessment against the ISO 42001 standard and its Annex A controls. The output is a clear, actionable roadmap for achieving audit-readiness.

02

Build

We implement the core components of your Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS): policies, procedures, risk assessments, and the technical controls required to prepare you for the audit.

03

Operate (Ongoing)

We provide ongoing management of your ISO 42001 program, ensuring controls remain effective, evidence is collected efficiently, and your entire team is fully prepared to navigate the audit successfully.

01 Assess

Goal: Establish the scope and find the gaps in your current AI governance posture.

  • ISO 42001 Gap Assessment

  • AI System Scoping & Boundary Definition

  • Actionable Remediation Roadmap

  • Technical & Governance Playbooks

MILESTONES

  • Gap Assessment Report

  • AIMS Scope & Applicability Statement

02 Build

Goal: Implement controls and automate processes for audit readiness.

  • AIMS Foundation (Policies, Processes, Controls)

  • AI Risk Management Program

  • Responsible AI & Governance Training

  • GRC Platform Integration & Evidence Collection

  • AIMS Internal Audit & Management Review

MILESTONES

  • Evidence of Control Operation

  • Successful Stage 1 Audit

03 Operate

Goal: Maintain and improve your compliance posture year-round.

  • Access to Fractional AI Governance Manager

  • Continuous Monitoring & Evidence Collection

  • Ongoing AI Risk & Model Lifecycle Management

  • AIMS Policy Updates & Annual Training

  • Annual Surveillance & Recertification Audit Management

MILESTONES

  • Successful Surveillance Audits

  • ISO 42001 Certification

Warning: Warning: Not All ISO 42001 Advisors Are Created Equal.

The market is being flooded with consultants who focus on one thing: getting a certificate on the wall. This policy-only approach won't stand up to the scrutiny of a savvy enterprise buyer and it won't actually make your AI more trustworthy or responsible.

The Checkbox Consultant

  • Staffed with junior analysts who lack real-world enterprise experience with AI governance.

  • Focuses only on writing policies, leaving your AI models exposed to operational and reputational risk.

  • Lacks the procurement expertise to help your sales team win AI-specific deals.

  • Built on fragile templates that use generic, boiler-plate language, setting up controls that don't match your actual operating environment.

The Truvo Partnership

  • Led by ex-Accenture, enterprise-grade experts with industry certifications.

  • Builds an effective AI governance program where compliance is an outcome, not the only objective.

  • We’ve designed the AI due diligence gates your buyers use, and we help you pass them.

  • Program documentation is custom-built for your stack, ensuring controls are accurate, defensible, and fully operationalized by your team.

Why Our Governance-First Approach is Better

A compliance certificate isn't enough. We focus on building a defensible AI  governance   program that gives you a real competitive edge.

Untrusted AI Destroys Deals

Our primary goal is to lower your actual risk of a breach in trust by implementing robust, operational controls that address real-world AI threats like bias and lack of transparency.

Satisfy Enterprise AI Committees

We build a program that withstands deep-dive enterprise due diligence, proving your AI is responsibly managed and giving buyers the confidence to approve the deal.

Be Ready for What's Next

The AI regulatory landscape is changing fast. We build a forward-looking program that aligns with emerging laws like the EU AI Act, future-proofing your business.

The All-in-One Solution

Our most popular offering. This annual, fixed-price package combines the Build project, the Operate subscription, and includes your GRC platform license, annual penetration test, and external audit fees for a single, predictable price.

Get a Quote for the All-in-One Package

  • Everything in Assess

  • Everything in Build

  • Everything in Operate

  • GRC Platform License

  • Internal Audit

  • External Audit

Trusted by Growing B2B SaaS Companies

"Truvo Cyber are more than consultants; they are an instrumental and integrated part of our team.  We trust them with projects of national importance, and they deliver."

Matt Charette

- CISO, Payments Canada

ISO 42001 Frequently Asked Questions

The simplest way to think about it is that ISO 27001 is about protecting your data, while ISO 42001 is about responsibly governing the AI systems that use that data. ISO 27001 establishes an Information Security Management System (ISMS) to manage security risks. ISO 42001 establishes an Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS) to manage risks specific to AI, like fairness, transparency, and accountability. They are designed to be complementary.

For a typical high-growth SaaS company, the process from kickoff to certification audit takes between 6 to 9 months. The exact timeline depends on the complexity of your AI systems and your current governance maturity. Our "Assess, Build, Operate" methodology is designed to accelerate this timeline by providing a clear, actionable roadmap from day one.

While ISO 27001 and SOC 2 build trust in your security, they don't address the specific due diligence questions enterprise buyers now have about AI. They want to know how your models are built, managed for bias, and governed ethically. ISO 42001 is the global standard for demonstrating that responsible AI governance. For companies selling AI-powered products, it's quickly becoming the new requirement to win enterprise deals.

An AIMS (Artificial Intelligence Management System) is the formal framework of policies, processes, and controls used to govern your AI systems. It's the operational "how" behind your commitment to responsible AI.

Just like an ISMS, it can be difficult to maintain internally because it requires ongoing monitoring, risk assessments, and evidence collection. That's why our "Operate" service is a core part of our offering, we act as your fractional AI Governance manager to ensure the AIMS runs efficiently and you stay compliant year-round.

ISO 42001 provides the "how" to comply with the "what" of regulations like the EU AI Act. The Act sets out legal requirements for developing and deploying AI. An ISO 42001 certified AIMS provides a structured, internationally recognized framework to meet those requirements. Achieving certification is the most effective way to demonstrate conformity and future-proof your business against the changing regulatory landscape.

Ready to Achieve Global Recognition with ISO 42001?

Let's build a compliance program that wins enterprise deals.

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