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Free ISO 42001 Readiness Assessment
See how ready your organization is for ISO/IEC 42001, the international management system standard for AI. Name your organization, describe what is in scope, rate five areas, then generate an advisory readiness assessment and download it as Word or PDF. It is free and needs no sign-up. Your answers are processed securely to write the assessment and are never stored, sold, or used for training.
Assessment details
Name your organization, describe what is in scope, and rate five readiness areas. You get an advisory ISO 42001 readiness assessment you can download as Word or PDF.
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Readiness areas
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An ISO 42001 readiness assessment tells you how prepared your organization is for ISO/IEC 42001, the international AI management system standard. You rate five areas, your AI management system policy, risk assessment and treatment, roles and responsibilities, operational controls, and internal audit and management review, and this free tool writes back where you stand and what to work on next. Download it as Word or PDF, with no paywall and no sign-up. It is a readiness starting point, not a certification.
How the ISO 42001 readiness assessment works
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Describe your organization and scope
Enter your organization, describe the AI systems in scope, and rate five readiness areas as Ready, Partial, or Not started.
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Generate your assessment
The tool reads your answers and writes an advisory readiness assessment mapped to the areas ISO/IEC 42001 expects an AI management system to cover. Results come back in seconds.
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Download and act
Export the assessment as a PDF or an editable Word file, then confirm each area with a qualified assessor before you rely on it.
Free, private, and mapped to ISO/IEC 42001
Most readiness checks sit behind a lead form or keep a copy of what you enter. This one asks for no sign-up and keeps nothing. Writing the assessment needs a language model, so your answers are sent to our server and processed there, then discarded. The output is mapped to the areas ISO/IEC 42001 expects an AI management system to cover. We built this from our own AI governance programme, not from a summary of the standard: see BlockSurvey's AI Policy for how we apply the same management-system thinking to ourselves.
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Processed, never kept
Your answers are processed securely to write the assessment and are never stored, sold, or used for training. Keep the form to organization-level details and leave secrets, personal data, and PHI out.
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No account required
No sign-up and no email wall. A fair-use rate limit is the only thing standing between you and the tool.
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Free, real download
The complete assessment as an editable Word file or PDF at no cost, not a watermarked sample.
What the assessment covers
A structured read of your five answers, mapped to the areas ISO/IEC 42001 expects an AI management system to address:
- Where you stand overall, summarised from your five ratings.
- Your AI management system policy, and whether it is written and owned.
- AI risk assessment and treatment across the systems in scope.
- Roles and responsibilities, with a named owner for the AI management system.
- Operational AI controls covering how systems are built, run, and monitored.
- Internal audit and management review to keep the system improving.
- The gaps your answers suggest and a suggested order to close them.
- An advisory legal notice added to the end of the document.
Built for every team preparing for ISO 42001
Whether you build models or bought your first AI tool, knowing where you stand against ISO/IEC 42001 is what lets you plan before you spend on a formal audit. This assessment gives you an honest starting point, and it pairs well with an AI survey platform when the data you feed those systems comes from people.
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Compliance & privacy teams
Find your ISO 42001 gaps before you book an audit, not during it.
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Legal & risk
Get a plain read of where the AI management system is thin, so you can prioritise.
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Product & engineering
See which operational controls the standard expects around the AI you ship.
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Researchers & data teams
Check how your risk and oversight practices line up with a recognised standard.
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Startups adopting AI
Answer enterprise AI questionnaires knowing where your real gaps are.
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Vendors selling into enterprise
Show buyers you have measured yourself against the AI management system standard.
ISO 42001 asks how you handle the data behind your AI.
A readiness gap often starts with the data you collect. BlockSurvey is an AI survey platform, encrypted end to end, with a published AI policy you can cite in your own assessment, so responses are never sold, mined, or used to train models.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- An ISO 42001 readiness assessment is a free tool that gauges how prepared your organization is for ISO/IEC 42001, the international standard for AI management systems. You name your organization, describe the AI systems in scope, and rate five areas as Ready, Partial, or Not started: your AI management system policy, AI risk assessment and treatment, AI roles and responsibilities, operational AI controls, and internal audit and management review. The tool writes back a plain-language assessment of where you stand and what to work on, which you can download as Word or PDF.