Management Systems Certification Body
ISO/IEC 17021-1 management system certification — QMS, EMS, and OH&SMS — under tamper-evident, re-authenticated, decision-independent records.
The complete platform for a management system certification body: client and site management, the Stage 1 / Stage 2 / surveillance / recertification audit cycle, nonconformity tracking from root cause through verified closure, certificate issuance with a 3-year cycle, and the IAF MD 5 audit-duration calculator — with decision independence enforced at the point of certification, not just documented in a procedure.
Built for Management Systems Certification Body
Every capability is purpose-built for your compliance environment — not adapted from a generic platform.
Client & Site Management
Organizations, sites (permanent, virtual, or temporary per IAF MD 5 cl. 1.3–1.5), and management-system scope statements — one or more standards per client for integrated management systems.
Effective Personnel Calculation
Raw headcount, part-time adjustment, and repetitive-process reduction recorded with justification per IAF MD 5 cl. 2.3 — reviewable at any future assessment, not just computed and discarded.
IAF MD 5 Audit Duration Calculator
The methodology is built in: Stage 1+2 baseline, surveillance at 1/3, recertification at 2/3, the factor checklist, the 30% maximum-reduction cap, and half-day rounding. The Table QMS-1/EMS-1/OH&SMS-1 audit-day figures are not preloaded — you hold the controlled copy, you enter your own figures, and your Accreditation Body's stricter approved variant is fully supported.
Stage 1 / Stage 2 / Surveillance / Recertification Cycle
Each audit event — Stage 1, Stage 2, a surveillance visit, or recertification — is its own record with its own duration-calc snapshot, team, findings, and outcome. Status gating prevents editing a decided audit.
Nonconformity Lifecycle
Raised → root cause → correction plan → verified closed, per cl. 9.6.4–9.6.5. An advisory adequacy-review agent flags a superficial response before the auditor makes the closure call.
Auditor Roster & Competence
Standard-by-standard competency levels, training log, and per-assignment COI declarations — the same governance shape as an accreditation body's assessor register.
Certificate Issuance & Registry
Tamper-Evident certificate with a 3-year cycle, SHA-256 content hash, and re-authentication required to issue, suspend, or withdraw.
Transfer & Recertification Continuity
A transferred-in client's prior certification cycle is recorded and reviewed; recertification checks the current standards and sites against the previous certificate for undisclosed scope drift.
ISO 9001:2026 Transition — Both Sides of the Audit
ISO 9001:2026 replaced the 2015 edition in September 2026, with a three-year transition for existing certificates. Every certified client carries its own edition flag — 2015, transitioning, or 2026 — so an audit record says plainly which clause set it was conducted against. Your clients running AILS can work their own readiness against the changed clauses before you arrive, which makes the Stage 1 conversation about evidence rather than about what is missing. It is preparation for the audit, not a substitute for it: the certification decision is yours, and nothing here forms a view on conformity.
Purpose-built agents for Management Systems Certification Body
Each agent operates on your live lab data, scoped to one specific job. Not a generic assistant.
Stage 1 Readiness Reviewer
Reads a client's submitted management-system documentation and flags gaps against the standard's clause structure before a Stage 2 site visit is scheduled.
Audit Team Matcher / COI Screener
Proposes auditors from your roster whose competencies match the client's standard(s) and flags any declared or apparent conflict of interest. Never assigns the team — a human selects it.
Nonconformity Response Adequacy Reviewer
Flags a client's submitted root-cause and correction-plan response as potentially superficial before the auditor makes the verification call.
Transfer-of-Certification Continuity Checker
Reviews a transferred-in client's prior certification body, cycle status, and open nonconformities at the time of transfer.
Recertification Scope Drift Flagger
Compares a recertification audit's current standards and sampled sites against the previous certificate and surfaces undisclosed scope changes.
A separate module from product certification, since a management-system audit has an organization, sites, and a scope statement rather than a product or model.
One platform. Your vertical. Ready today.
The Management Systems Certification Body workflows, compliance frameworks and AI agents ship today — built, tested, and covered by the platform test suite. Configuration, not architectural change, is what stands between you and go-live.