Thames Kay Consultancy LLCGovern AI the way you govern quality and security.
AI is no longer experimental — it powers customer interactions, business decisions and entire product lines. ISO/IEC 42001:2023 is the world's first certifiable AI Management System (AIMS) standard: a structured way to manage AI responsibly across its whole lifecycle, and to prove it to regulators and stakeholders.
A management system built specifically for AI.
Where ISO 9001 focuses on quality and ISO 27001 on information security, an AI Management System focuses on responsible AI: managing AI risk, ethical practice, oversight of operations, transparent decision-making and lifecycle management from concept to retirement. In practice it gives you a structured governance framework, an AI-specific risk and impact-assessment method, defined roles and responsibilities, and the evidence and auditability to demonstrate responsible AI.
At a glance
The challenges AI created — and 42001 answers.
Opacity
AI models often operate as complex, non-transparent systems.
Ethical concerns
Bias, fairness, inclusivity and unintended consequences.
Data governance
Ensuring data quality, provenance and reliability.
Legal risk
Misalignment with emerging legislation, including the EU AI Act.
Operational drift
Lifecycle management, monitoring and model-drift detection.
Accountability
Clarifying who is responsible for AI decisions, and demonstrating why systems behave as they do.
If you use AI in any meaningful way, 42001 is relevant.
The standard is flexible — it scales from early-stage AI initiatives to complex enterprise operations, regardless of size or maturity.
- Organisations that build or train AI models
- Organisations that deploy or use third-party AI applications
- Teams running internal AI projects or experiments
- Public-sector bodies delivering AI-supported services
- Teams implementing AI as part of digital transformation
AI needs governance — not guesswork.
We design your AIMS to the standard and assemble the evidence regulators and certification bodies expect — so readiness is documented, not assumed.
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