ISO 42001 certification consultants
Secure a competitive edge with ISO 42001 certification for your AI services — ensuring safety, ethics, and compliance. Stand out in the market by being among the few to achieve this essential standard early.
In April 2025, David passed his examination for ISO 42001 Artificial Intelligence.
What is ISO 42001?
AI is evolving fast. If your business is predominantly using or selling AI services, it's important to be aware of the ISO AI standards.
ISO 42001, also known as ISO/IEC 42001, is the latest global standard for using AI in businesses by the ISO and IEC to ensure AI systems are being managed responsibly.
By being ISO 42001 registered, it assures your customers that your AI services are safe, ethical, and compliant, and ensures you are up to date with any future legal changes. With very few businesses in the UK having ISO/IEC 42001 certification, achieving it early gives you a competitive advantage, instilling confidence in your customers and stakeholders.
Why attain ISO 42001 certification?
Achieving ISO 42001 registration shows your business commits to using AI responsibly and ethically. Here are some more benefits.
More trust and credibility
More trust and credibility in your AI systems since you're actively managing risks and ensuring that your AI system is safe and reliable, improving performance.
A competitive advantage, early
Achieving the certificate early on gives your business a competitive advantage, ensuring you're prepared for future regulations and that you adhere to global standards.
A route into European partnerships
It could be useful when interacting with EU businesses that are already using the EU AI Act, and helps establish relationships with partners who are looking for businesses that responsibly use AI.
What an AI management system covers
The ISO AI standards focus on the following.
- Risk management and impact — identify risks associated with AI systems throughout their lifecycle and evaluate the impacts of using AI, helping mitigate negative effects
- Security and safety — ensuring AI systems are protected from cyber attacks and unauthorised access, and keep them operating reliably
- Ethical AI development — fairness and transparency in AI decisions, and accountability for outcomes. Data quality must be accurate to train AI systems and avoid errors and biases
- Performance optimisation — processes for monitoring AI systems and enhancing them in future, ensuring efficient operation and legal compliance
Who needs the ISO AI standards?
If your business is selling AI services, it will need the ISO 42001 certificate. No matter if you are a start-up or a large enterprise, this standard is designed to be used for the development and management of AI systems. Industries in tech, finance and healthcare need to prove their AI is ethical, unbiased and safe — even if a company is using AI tools like chatbots. The more AI in your business directly impacts the customer, the more important it is that you meet these standards.
How our ISO consultants help you achieve ISO 42001
Our experienced ISO consultants can help your business achieve its ISO 42001 certificate without stress. We help by doing the following:
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Stage 1
Gap analysis
We analyse your current setup and see what needs updating and what already meets the current standard.
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Stage 2
AI system check
We help you understand and implement the necessary controls in the standard to manage your AI ethically and safely.
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Stage 3
Documentation
We take care of all the documentation and policies, ensuring they are written correctly and compliant.
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Stage 4
Training
We give training to help your team understand how the requirements of ISO 42001 relate to them.
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Stage 5
Ongoing support
After you receive your ISO 42001 certificate, we are still here to give you advice about future changes and offer support with ongoing consultancy and auditing, if required.
Not sure whether ISO 42001 applies to you?
If you build AI, resell it, or have put a chatbot in front of customers, it probably does. Tell us what your AI actually does and we'll give you a straight answer.
Use AI responsibly with our ISO 42001 consultants
At ADL Consultancy, we are based in Essex and have been helping businesses for over 20 years get up to date and compliant with ISO standards for all industries, such as fintech and healthcare.
Our family consultancy is made up of experienced ISO consultants who can help you navigate managing your AI systems responsibly and ethically to meet the ISO 42001 standards and gain certification.
- David passed his ISO 42001 examination in April 2025
- Experience in fintech and healthcare, where AI scrutiny is heaviest
- Built onto an existing ISO 9001 or ISO 27001 system rather than beside it
- Support continues after certification, including ongoing auditing if you want it
Sectors under the most AI scrutiny
- Fintech
- Healthcare
- Technology & SaaS
- Finance
- Recruitment
- Legal
- Customer service & chatbots
- Start-ups
We work from Harlow across Essex, London and the surrounding counties — including a dedicated page for businesses in Suffolk.
How we work, from clients on other standards
ISO 42001 is new, and we have not yet taken a client through it — we would rather say so than imply otherwise. What we can show you is how we work on the standards we have delivered for over twenty years.
“David's expertise in his field is second to none but also his patience and understanding of our position as business owners, ensuring day to day productivity wasn't effected was invaluable.”
“They are unlike many consultants who absorb what you tell them, write it down, and then give it back to you with an invoice! It is impossible for businesses of our size and resource to be 100% familiar with all the standards changes and requirements, but we are happy to say ADL Consultancy are keeping us on the right tracks.”
“I have always felt confident that I was making a wise decision when contacting ADL Consultancy. They have always taken the time to educate my staff and I about our options, and advised us where business practices needed to be changed.”
A certificate is only worth what the body behind it is worth. We work with UKAS approved registration bodies, and hold a 100% success rate across the standards we deliver
Where ISO 42001 fits with your other standards
ISO 42001 extends a management system you may already have, rather than replacing it.
ISO 27001 Information Security
The system ISO 42001 most naturally extends. If you already control how data is held and who can reach it, governing the models that use it is the next step.
ISO 27001 consultancyISO 9001 & AS9100
The quality core. Its management review and audit cycle are the machinery an AI management system can run on rather than duplicate.
ISO 9001 consultantsMeet the family
Eight people, and the qualifications behind each of them — including David's ISO 42001 examination and his Lead Auditor status with IT Governance.
Meet the teamGet ahead on ISO 42001
Start getting ahead of your competitors today and show your commitment to using AI responsibly, by getting your ISO 42001 certification and meeting global AI standards with ADL Consultancy.