Halderstone Audit Services

AI Management Audits

Independent assessments of AI governance, management systems, controls, and compliance obligations

Halderstone Audit Services

AI Management Audits

Independent assessments of AI governance, management systems, controls, and compliance obligations

Auditor and AI system owner review governance evidence on a technical workflow during an AI management audit.

Understand whether your AI governance works in practice

Assess whether governance structures, controls, and oversight mechanisms are operating as intended across your AI initiatives.

Auditor and AI system owner review governance evidence on a technical workflow during an AI management audit.

Understand whether your AI governance works in practice

Assess whether governance structures, controls, and oversight mechanisms are operating as intended across your AI initiatives.

Auditor and AI system owner review governance evidence on a technical workflow during an AI management audit.

How we support you

AI systems create unique governance, risk, compliance, and accountability challenges.

Independent audits help organisations understand whether AI governance arrangements, management systems, and control activities are designed appropriately and operating effectively.

Assessments can focus on entire AI management systems, selected AI initiatives, suppliers, business units, or specific regulatory obligations.

Audit contexts

  • Internal audits

  • Readiness assessments

  • Supplier assessments

  • AI governance reviews

  • Regulatory compliance reviews

  • Integrated audits

Supported frameworks

  • ISO/IEC 42001

  • EU AI Act

  • NIST AI RMF

  • OECD AI Principles

  • Internal AI governance frameworks

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Discuss your audit challenge

A short conversation to understand your current situation and discuss possible next steps.

Business meeting with people sitting at a conference room table

Discuss your audit challenge

A short conversation to understand your current situation and discuss possible next steps.

Business meeting with people sitting at a conference room table

Discuss your audit challenge

A short conversation to understand your current situation and discuss possible next steps.

Why Halderstone

Our approach

  • Audit planning informed by risks, objectives, and the intended use of audit results

  • Audit activities aligned with recognized auditing principles and guidance, including ISO 19011 where appropriate

  • Findings based on objective evidence obtained through interviews, documentation review, observation, and sampling

  • Conclusions supported by corroboration across multiple evidence sources and audit methods

  • Practical reporting focused on decision-making, assurance, and continual improvement

What we deliberately do not do

  • Mandates that compromise auditor independence

  • Audit engagements where we influence the selection of samples, evidence, or interview partners

  • Conclusions based solely on interviews without corroborating evidence

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Related training modules

Halderstone Academy offers focused training modules on relevant audit capabilities.

Halderstone Academy

Related training modules

Halderstone Academy offers focused training modules on relevant audit capabilities.

Auditing AI Risk & Impact Management

Evaluate harm, impact and risk reasoning, intended use alignment, and decision traceability in ISO/IEC 42001

Auditing AI Risk & Impact Management

Evaluate harm, impact and risk reasoning, intended use alignment, and decision traceability in ISO/IEC 42001

Auditing AI Lifecycle & Data Governance Controls

Evaluate lifecycle and data governance controls across data sourcing, training, validation, deployment, monitoring, and change in ISO/IEC 42001

Auditing AI Lifecycle & Data Governance Controls

Evaluate lifecycle and data governance controls across data sourcing, training, validation, deployment, monitoring, and change in ISO/IEC 42001

AI Systems & Architectures

Practical AI literacy for understanding AI types, deployment models, agentic patterns, current trends and where AI is heading

AI Limitations & Failure Modes

Build practical AI failure-mode literacy across predictive, generative and workflow systems

AI System Lifecycle & Inventory

Define AI system scope, set lifecycle boundaries, and maintain an AI system inventory aligned with ISO/IEC 42001

AI Risk Management

Assess AI risks across use context, affected parties, GenAI and agency, then turn findings into treatment, monitoring and residual risk

Operational Control of AI Systems

Define, implement and maintain operational controls for AI systems across deployment, change and monitoring

Auditing Context & Scope

Assess whether organisational context, interested parties, scope and system boundaries credibly reflect how the organisation operates

Auditing Leadership & Governance

Assess whether leadership commitment, policy direction and governance structures credibly steer the management system

Auditing Context & Scope

Assess whether organisational context, interested parties, scope and system boundaries credibly reflect how the organisation operates

Auditing Context & Scope

Assess whether organisational context, interested parties, scope and system boundaries credibly reflect how the organisation operates

Auditing Leadership & Governance

Assess whether leadership commitment, policy direction and governance structures credibly steer the management system

Auditing Leadership & Governance

Assess whether leadership commitment, policy direction and governance structures credibly steer the management system

Auditing Risk & Opportunity Management

Assess whether risk and opportunity management credibly informs organisational decisions and priorities

Auditing Risk & Opportunity Management

Assess whether risk and opportunity management credibly informs organisational decisions and priorities

Auditing Documented Information

Assess whether documented information is fit for use, internally consistent and credible as audit evidence

Auditing Documented Information

Assess whether documented information is fit for use, internally consistent and credible as audit evidence

Auditing Objectives & Performance Evaluation

Assess whether objectives and KPIs credibly measure and steer organisational performance

Auditing Objectives & Performance Evaluation

Assess whether objectives and KPIs credibly measure and steer organisational performance

Auditing Operational Control

Assess whether operational controls and process interactions work reliably in day-to-day practice

Auditing Operational Control

Assess whether operational controls and process interactions work reliably in day-to-day practice

Auditing Supplier & Outsourcing Management

Assess whether supplier and outsourced process controls manage risk effectively and achieve intended outcomes across organisational boundaries

Auditing Supplier & Outsourcing Management

Assess whether supplier and outsourced process controls manage risk effectively and achieve intended outcomes across organisational boundaries

Leading with Management Systems

Use management systems to drive performance, risk control and organisational credibility beyond certification

Leading with Management Systems in Practice

Apply executive judgement to turn management systems into drivers of reliability, trust and strategic performance

System Framing

Analyse organisational context, stakeholders and system boundaries to support effective management systems

System Leadership

Define clear policy direction and accountability through effective leadership responsibilities in management systems

Policy Management

Design coherent, auditable policy frameworks that align with strategy, scale across entities, and stay current without excess bureaucracy

Governance Design

Build the decision rights, governance meetings, escalation paths and evidence trails that make management systems work in practice

Resource Management

Ensure management systems are supported with sufficient people, time, budget, infrastructure and external support

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Ready to improve your management systems?

We support continuous improvement by embedding ISO requirements into everyday practice and daily operations.

Office scene with people standing, walking and sitting

Ready to improve your management systems?

We support continuous improvement by embedding ISO requirements into everyday practice and daily operations.

Office scene with people standing, walking and sitting

Ready to improve your management systems?

We support continuous improvement by embedding ISO requirements into everyday practice and daily operations.