ISO 42001 online: from self-assessment to certificate

The whole route runs in a browser. You book no auditor and nobody comes to your office. Five steps lead to the certificate.

1. 01

   Start the self-assessment

   Open the assessment for ISO 42001. It is free and needs no registration.

2. 02

   Answer 40 questions

   Every question is yes or no. They follow the requirements of the standard, from your role as AI provider, producer or user to the controls over data and operation.

3. 03

   Reach the pass mark

   All 13 mandatory questions need a yes. Of the other 27 questions, at least 18 need a yes.

4. 04

   Pay for the first year

   You pay after passing. No account is needed to buy.

5. 05

   Receive the certificate

   SICE reviews your assessment. G6 Agency AG then issues the PDF, within 4 hours after passing and payment.

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The questions ask about things that exist in your company, not about plans. Software vendors with AI features, developers of AI models, insurers, banks, healthcare providers, staffing firms using AI tools in HR and IT service providers will recognise most of them. Collect the following first and you can answer from documents instead of from memory.

Your role

Decide whether you provide, produce or use AI systems. The answer determines which requirements concern you.

AI policy and responsibilities

A written policy, and named people who are responsible for the AI systems in your company.

AI risk assessment

A method to identify AI risks and decide how to treat them, with the results written down.

Impact assessments

A documented look at how each AI system affects the people it concerns.

Statement of Applicability

A list of the Annex A controls that apply to you, and a reason for each one you leave out.

Life cycle controls

Rules for training data, development and operation of every AI system you provide or use.

Two conditions decide the result. Both must be met.

Zertify is the platform. It runs the self-assessment, takes the payment and delivers the PDF. The certificate itself is issued by G6 Agency AG under licence from SICE, the Swiss Institute of Certification and Education. It rests on your self-assessment, with no on-site audit, and a short online re-audit confirms it every year.

Your customers can check it without asking you. They enter the number or scan the QR code and land on the verification page. That helps when a purchasing department or a supplier questionnaire asks for proof of your AI governance.

What the standard itself requires is explained on the ISO 42001 page.

• ISO 42001 standard page
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On the classic route with an on-site audit by a certification body, an auditor visits you and the audit follows an agreed plan. Some customers and tenders name that route explicitly. For many small and medium businesses the online route answers the same question in the supplier questionnaire with far less effort.

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The price is CHF 849 (€849) in the first year, then CHF 569 (€569) per year including the yearly online re-audit. The certificate is valid for 3 years.

The yearly fee runs as an automatic subscription. You can cancel at any time in your customer account, effective at the end of the current year. The certificate then ends with the paid year.

If you certify against several standards, you get 20% off for two and 30% off for three or more, also on the yearly fee. For customers in Switzerland and Liechtenstein the prices include 8.1% Swiss VAT.

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