Arrive at the survey with a record, not a binder.
Certification evidence comes in two kinds. Policies can be drafted in a focused week — whenever you choose. Monitoring records, committee minutes, and training logs can only accumulate, and their dates cannot be backdated. Survey readiness is the discipline of starting the accumulating kind early. This is the path, in order.
Our founder made this argument on KevinMD: Why AI governance in health care cannot be backdated.
Step 1 — Find your gaps (free, 10 minutes)
The readiness score measures you against the certification's five focus areas and produces a board-ready gap report naming the exact artifacts to fix first. Then face the Mock Surveyor — twelve evidence requests, answered honestly, in the language real findings are written in.
Step 2 — Build the record (free instruments + the reference)
The RUAIH reference answers what each control requires; the evidence template set gives you the committee charter, monitoring plan, validation memo, and twelve more working artifacts. The unit of the record is a model card per system, and the realistic pace of the whole build is set out in the certification timeline. Fix the weakest area first — readiness fails at its weakest artifact.
Step 3 — Let the record keep itself
HAI-OS turns the accumulating evidence into a byproduct of operating: model registry, locked baselines, drift and equity monitoring with automatic enforcement, accountable sign-off chains, and a survey binder generated from the record in one click. The demo is public — no signup, no sales call, including a real equity-threshold suspension on the record.
Start with the score — free Join the live readiness briefing