Assess
Understand your current AI readiness.
GAAI Audit & Verification™
How AI-Ready Is Your Organization?
GAAI provides a structured pathway for organizations to assess AI readiness, identify gaps, improve practices, undergo applicable audit processes and demonstrate organizational AI maturity within a defined scope.
Why it matters
AI Adoption Needs Evidence, Not Just Claims.
Organizations are adopting Artificial Intelligence across products, operations, workforce processes and decision-making. As AI adoption grows, organizations need practical ways to understand their readiness, identify gaps and demonstrate responsible AI practices within a defined scope.
GAAI provides a structured framework for assessing organizational AI readiness and maturity.
Improve
Identify gaps and develop an improvement roadmap.
Audit
Evaluate applicable evidence, controls and practices.
Verify
Demonstrate qualifying results through an applicable GAAI verification record.
The organizational journey
From AI Readiness to Verified Maturity.
Assessment establishes a baseline. Audit examines evidence. Verification records the outcome within a defined scope.
ASSESSComplete the GAAI AI Readiness Assessment.
IDENTIFY GAPSCompare applicable practices against GAAI-400 requirements.
IMPROVEDevelop and implement an improvement roadmap.
AUDITA qualified auditor evaluates applicable evidence and controls.
VERIFYGAAI reviews qualifying assessment and audit results.
MAINTAINPeriodic reassessment and renewal help keep the verification current.
For organizations
Where to Start
Step 01
AI Readiness Assessment
Establish your organization’s AI readiness baseline.
Start assessment
Standard
GAAI Organization Standard
GAAI-400 — organizational AI requirements for governance, risk, responsible AI and AI operations.
Explore GAAI-400
Step 04
AI Audit
Independent examination of applicable AI practices, controls and evidence.
How audit works
Step 05
Verification Process
How organizational assessment, audit and verification work together.
See the process
Verification levels
Three Levels. Clear Evidence. Defined Scope.
Every level is recorded against the scope that was actually assessed — never the organization as a whole unless that was the scope.
Level 1
GAAI AI READY™
Organization demonstrates foundational readiness requirements within the assessed scope.
Explore AI READY Level 2GAAI AI VERIFIED™
Organization demonstrates implementation of applicable GAAI organizational AI requirements within the assessed scope.
Explore AI VERIFIED Level 3GAAI AI EXCELLENCE™
Organization demonstrates advanced AI governance, controls, monitoring, responsible practices and maturity within the assessed scope.
Explore AI EXCELLENCE
Directories
Check a Record. Find an Auditor.
Directory
Verified Organizations
Browse organizations with active GAAI verification records.
Search the directory
Directory
Certified AI Auditors
Find professionals holding applicable GAAI AI Auditor credentials.
Find an auditor
Standard
GAAI-500
The audit standard that GAAI-related audits are performed under.
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Credential
GAAI Certified AI Auditor™
The credential held by qualified AI audit professionals.
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FAQ
Assessment, Audit and Verification Explained
These three words are often used interchangeably. In the GAAI framework they are distinct stages.
A structured way for an organization to understand its current AI readiness across applicable organizational areas, and to identify gaps. It is a starting point — it is not an audit and it is not verification.
GAAI-400 is the GAAI AI Organization Standard. It sets out organizational requirements and expectations covering AI strategy, governance, responsible AI, risk, data and security, workforce competency, operations, monitoring and continuous improvement.
An independent examination of applicable organizational AI practices, controls and evidence against the relevant requirements and scope, performed under the applicable GAAI requirements including independence and conflict-of-interest requirements.
An assessment establishes a baseline and is typically self-directed. An audit is an independent examination of evidence by a qualified auditor. Verification is a separate decision made by GAAI on qualifying results. An audit having taken place does not, on its own, mean an organization is verified.
GAAI AI READY™ indicates foundational readiness within the assessed scope. GAAI AI VERIFIED™ indicates demonstrated implementation of applicable GAAI organizational AI requirements within the assessed scope. GAAI AI EXCELLENCE™ indicates advanced governance, controls, monitoring and maturity within the assessed scope.
Not necessarily. Every verification record states the assessment scope. A record may cover a specific business unit, process, product, system or scope rather than the whole organization. A verification level should never be read as applying beyond the scope stated on the record.
Each verification record carries its own issue date and expiration date, and periodic reassessment and renewal help keep status current. Validity periods will be published by GAAI.
Search the Verified Organizations directory for active verification records, and the Certified AI Auditors directory for professionals holding applicable GAAI AI Auditor credentials. Note that holding the credential does not by itself mean an auditor is authorized for every GAAI assessment — where applicable, authorization status is shown separately. Auditors are also subject to independence and conflict-of-interest requirements, which can prevent them from assessing a given organization.
How AI-Ready Is Your Organization?
Start by understanding your current AI readiness and identify practical opportunities for improvement.