Solution
ISO compliance and audit readiness with EtherAssist.
Use EtherAssist to structure ISO compliance work, draft reviewer-ready policies and procedures, run assessments, prepare audit evidence, and keep ownership visible across controlled compliance workflows.
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ISO-led
support for ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 42001, Cyber Essentials, and internal controls
Reviewable
policies, procedures, assessments, and evidence prepared for human approval
Traceable
owners, actions, decisions, and audit notes kept in the workflow record
The problem
Compliance work breaks down when evidence and ownership are disconnected.
ISO and audit readiness work often becomes a document chase. Policies drift, procedures age, evidence sits in inboxes, and assessment actions lose their owner before the next review. Teams need a practical way to prepare compliance material without losing control of approvals.
Policies are hard to keep current
Security, quality, AI governance, and operational policies need regular review, but ownership and change history are often unclear by the time an audit arrives.
Assessments become manual spreadsheets
Control checks, gap notes, evidence requests, and action owners are rebuilt repeatedly because the assessment workflow is not connected to day-two work.
Processes and procedures drift
Procedures are written once, then fall behind real operating practice. Teams need a way to update them from actual workflow context.
Audit evidence needs review
Evidence must be complete, current, and explainable. AI can help prepare the pack, but reviewers still need approval points and accountability.
What changes
What changes
Policy creation and review
Draft, update, and route policies for review across ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 42001, Cyber Essentials, and internal control requirements.
Assessment workflows
Prepare control assessments, capture gaps, assign owners, and keep review notes connected to the evidence trail.
Process and procedure records
Turn repeat operational activity into maintained procedures that compliance, operations, and service teams can review together.
Audit evidence preparation
Gather evidence, draft summaries, record decisions, and keep final approval with the responsible team before anything is presented externally.
Start here
Start with one audit-ready workflow.
See this working on your own tenant.
Compliance workflow view
Policies, procedures, assessments, evidence, and approvals in one controlled trail.
EtherAssist helps compliance and IT teams move from scattered documents to a reviewable workflow where controls, owners, evidence, and next actions stay connected.
Walkthrough
See ISO readiness workflow.
Watch EtherAssist help draft policies, prepare evidence, and keep reviewer checkpoints visible across ISO readiness work.
How we deliver it
Product mapping
This route is led by EtherAssist. Use it when the buyer is asking how to prepare ISO evidence, draft policies, assess controls, keep procedures current, and manage audit readiness without relying on scattered documents. Use agentic operations when the need is broader day-two workflow execution. Use IT operations and compliance when the team is still framing the wider operating model.
EtherAssist gives IT and compliance teams the speed of AI without giving up data control, auditability, or practical governance. It supports troubleshooting, scripting, documentation, policy work, and repeatable internal support workflows.
Where this fits
- ISO 27001 readiness where security controls, policy ownership, and evidence need a cleaner workflow.
- ISO 9001 quality-management support where processes, procedures, review records, and improvement actions need structure.
- ISO 42001 AI management preparation where AI governance policies, risk notes, and review records need control.
- Cyber Essentials and internal audit preparation where evidence gathering and owner sign-off need to be repeatable.
- MSP or multi-tenant compliance services where the same assessment and evidence workflow needs to run consistently across customer estates.
FAQ
Questions teams ask before using AI for compliance work.
The decision is not whether AI can draft documents. It is whether the workflow keeps policies, assessments, procedures, evidence, and approvals controlled.
Does EtherAssist certify us for ISO standards?
No. EtherAssist supports compliance preparation, policy work, assessments, procedure drafting, evidence capture, and reviewer workflows. Certification decisions remain with the organisation, auditors, and accredited certification bodies.
Which frameworks can this support?
The route is designed around repeatable compliance work for frameworks such as ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 42001, Cyber Essentials, and internal control programmes. The workflow can be adapted to the controls, owners, and evidence model the team uses.
How is this different from generic document drafting?
Generic drafting creates files. EtherAssist is positioned around controlled workflow: policy creation, owner review, assessment notes, process and procedure records, evidence capture, and audit preparation in one traceable operating model.
Where does this sit next to agentic operations?
Agentic operations covers broader day-two IT workflows. This route is narrower and compliance-led: ISO readiness, audits, policies, procedures, assessments, evidence packs, and reviewer sign-off.
Some compliance platforms now claim their AI agent runs the whole programme. Why does EtherAssist keep a human reviewer instead?
Unlike compliance tools built to run your programme autonomously, EtherAssist prepares the work and keeps a named reviewer as the final approval on every policy, assessment, and evidence pack, because a compliance decision that turns out wrong is the organisation's liability, not the AI's. The scope is also deliberately narrower and deeper: evidence is pulled from the Microsoft 365, Azure, and Entra estate you already run on, not a separate GRC platform integration project, so audit-ready systems and evidence stay grounded in the tenant an auditor will actually check.
Does EtherAssist replace Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager?
No, they sit at different layers. Purview Compliance Manager scores your tenant against its own library of regulatory templates and tracks control status natively in Microsoft 365. EtherAssist doesn't replace that scoring engine; it prepares the evidence behind each control, drafting policies, capturing procedure records, and building the reviewer-ready evidence pack, so what you feed into Compliance Manager or hand an auditor directly is current and traceable.
Does this only work for ISO 27001, or does it cover ISO 9001 too?
The workflow model is framework-agnostic: policy, assessment, procedure record, evidence, reviewer sign-off. That applies to ISO 9001's quality-management requirements the same way it does to ISO 27001's security controls; the controls you're proving change, the workflow that proves them doesn't.
ISO and audit-readiness sources
Reviewed 25 August 2026.
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Start here
Start with one audit-ready workflow.
Pick one ISO policy, assessment, process, or evidence pack. We will map the owners, reviewer checkpoints, source evidence, and output format before expanding the compliance workflow model.
- EtherAssist supports controlled compliance workflow rather than unmanaged document generation.
- Reviewer checkpoints keep policy, process, procedure, and evidence outputs accountable.
- The route connects ISO compliance work to day-two operations without promising certification outcomes.