Standard · ISO 9001:2015

ISO 9001 compliance, run as a three-stage workflow.

One workspace for the Quality Management System — from gap analysis against the clauses through evidence collection and the final assessment report. Roles split across creator, business liaison, GRC liaison and control owner. Editing follows the platform billing state.

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The three stages.

Stage 1 — Gap analysis
  1. Answer a clause-by-clause questionnaire across Clauses 4 to 10 of ISO 9001:2015.
  2. Capture an optional justification with each answer.
  3. Review the gap analysis — per-clause scores and the controls implicated by your answers.
  4. Submit. Stage 1 is the hard gate — the remaining stages unlock once it is submitted.
Stage 2 — Document readiness
  1. Open the catalog of every QMS document required — Quality Manual, procedures, work instructions, records.
  2. For each document, record its status — Available, Partial, Not Available, N/A.
  3. Optionally upload a controlled copy.
  4. Generate the Document Readiness Report.
Stage 3 — Evidence collection
  1. Capture evidence per control against the QMS clauses, assign owners, and upload files.
  2. Use AI-assisted policy drafting alongside to draft any missing policies.
  3. The GRC liaison fills the internal audit findings column — compliance status, notes, required actions.
Output — Assessment report
  1. At the end of Stage 3, generate a unified assessment report.
  2. The report rolls clause status, evidence references, audit findings and corrective actions into a single document.
  3. Export as .docx or .pptx.

What ISO 9001 compliance involves — and how a guided workflow helps

ISO 9001:2015 is the world’s most widely adopted management-system standard: a certification that your Quality Management System (QMS) consistently delivers what customers and regulators expect. For engineering firms, professional services, manufacturers and contractors, it is routinely a tender requirement — no certificate, no bid. The standard is organised around ten clauses covering context, leadership, planning, support, operation, performance evaluation and improvement, with the process approach and risk-based thinking running through all of them.

Getting certification-ready means demonstrating each applicable clause in practice: a defined quality policy and objectives, documented processes with owners, control of documents and records, competence and training evidence, supplier evaluation, handling of nonconformities and corrective actions, internal audits and management review. None of it is conceptually hard — the failure mode is coordination, because the evidence lives with different people across the business and nobody can see what is still missing.

regXperience runs ISO 9001 readiness as a guided three-stage workflow. Stage one is a clause-by-clause gap analysis against the 2015 requirements, producing an honest picture of where you stand. Stage two is document readiness: each required document and record type has a template to download, complete and upload. Stage three collects operating evidence per requirement, with owners assigned per item and progress visible per clause — ending in an exportable assessment report you can hand to your certification body or use to brief management. Small quality teams and external consultants work in the same view, at a per-day price with no annual contract.

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Frequently asked questions

Who needs ISO 9001 certification?

Any organisation whose customers ask for demonstrated quality management — most commonly engineering and construction firms, manufacturers, logistics providers and professional-services companies bidding into government or enterprise tenders. ISO 9001 is industry-agnostic and sized for organisations from a few people upwards; certification bodies scale the audit to your headcount and scope.

How long does ISO 9001 certification take?

A typical SMB is audit-ready in two to four months if processes broadly exist and mainly need documenting, longer if core processes must be defined from scratch. The certification audit itself is a two-stage process a certification body schedules over a few weeks. A structured gap analysis at the start is what keeps the timeline honest.

What documents does ISO 9001:2015 require?

The 2015 revision replaced the old mandatory-procedures list with "documented information": you must document the QMS scope, quality policy and quality objectives, plus retain records proving your processes ran — monitoring results, competence evidence, design and supplier records where applicable, nonconformity and corrective-action records, internal-audit results and management-review minutes. regXperience provides a template per required document in its document-readiness stage.

Can ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 share one system?

Yes — both follow the same harmonised high-level structure, so leadership, document control, internal audit and management review can be run once for an integrated management system. On regXperience each framework runs as its own workflow, and evidence you collect for shared clauses can be reused across them.

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