One firm, one kind of client. Audit Readiness Group prepares your quality system for the audits your customers and your registrar run: gap assessments, internal audits, and mock audits, run the way a registrar runs them.
A registrar audit and a customer audit test the same thing: whether your system holds when someone from outside works through it.
Someone arrives, checks, writes a report, and leaves. The report starts aging the moment the door closes. People are hired, vendors change, processes drift. The next audit meets a different company than the one in the report.
We run your system the way the outsider will: clause by clause, evidence first, from the floor up. Findings come with a remediation plan you can actually work, and the gaps close before they cost you a certificate or a customer.
Two to four weeks, depending on what the assessment finds. Which makes the day to call the day the audit gets scheduled, not the fortnight before it.
We get you ready before they arrive. Three engagement types, sold separately or in sequence. Every one is a defined project with a defined deliverable.
An on-site review of your quality management system against ISO 9001, run the way a registrar runs it: clause by clause, evidence first. We interview the people who do the work and read the records they actually keep, not the ones in the binder.
Fixed-scope projects against named gaps: documentation that matches the floor, process design, an internal audit program that runs without you chasing it, corrective action discipline that survives the next surveillance visit.
Preparation ahead of your Stage 1, Stage 2, surveillance, recertification, or customer audit. We run it under the conditions the auditor will, so your team has already answered the hard questions once.
Companies with physical facilities, distributed workforces, and real audit calendars. Fabricated metal, electrical and electronic equipment, machinery, aerospace and defense suppliers, and the shops that feed them.
If your audit prep consists of the two weeks before the registrar arrives, you already know how that feels.