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What does your management system cost to run?

Not what you'd save with us — we can't know that without knowing your scope, and a made-up saving is worth nothing to you. This is the real annual cost of the system you run today, built from your own numbers, including the parts that never reach a budget line. Then it splits that cost into the work a standard genuinely requires and the administration wrapped around it. Nothing is stored or sent; it runs entirely in your browser.

Scope

ISO 9001, 14001, 45001, 27001, 42001…
Salary + overheads of whoever does this work

Your team's time

Screenshots, exports, "is this policy current?"
Building the pack before an assessment
Planning, auditing, writing up, chasing findings
Assembling the inputs, not the meeting itself
Versions, approvals, review dates, distribution
Interviewed, evidenced, prepped — not just the compliance team

What you pay out

Surveillance visits plus recertification spread over the cycle. Put your own invoice in — the default is a placeholder, not a benchmark.
Whatever holds the system together today

Annual cost of running it

£0
per year, from your numbers — before anyone sells you anything
That's £0 per standard, or £0 a month.
Administration
£0
The standard itself
£0
0%

of what you spend on compliance is administration, not compliance.

Where we'd actually sit: in the amber bucket. We won't reduce your certification body's fee, the hours an auditor spends with your team, or the judgement a good consultant brings. We change how much effort it takes to keep the system current and prove it — which is most of what you're spending. What we'd cost against that number depends on your scope — we won't invent a saving. These figures stay in your browser; they are not sent to us. Book a walkthrough if you want a price.
What this deliberately leaves out: the revenue side. Most organisations pursue certification because a customer or a tender requires it — if certification is the gate to even one contract, that number dwarfs everything above. We also haven't counted the cost of a major nonconformity, a delayed certificate, or a tender missed while the evidence was being rebuilt. We'd rather you put your own figure on those than invent one for you.
How the split is decided — every assumption adjustable

Some costs a standard genuinely requires; some are the administration that has grown around them. Two lines are a judgement call, so you set them:

Scheduling, chasing evidence, writing up, tracking findings — as opposed to the audit work itself. Default 40%.
Policy and procedure drafting, gap spreadsheets, pack assembly — as opposed to strategy and expert judgement. Default 50%.
Investigate, action, evidence, close. Default 6 hours.

Fixed classifications: certification body fees and the wider team's audit hours are counted as required. Evidence gathering, audit preparation, management review preparation, document control, nonconformity closure and point tools are counted as administration. Working day = 7.5 hours. Nothing here is discounted by an efficiency guess — every figure is your input, arithmetic only.

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This is arithmetic on the numbers you entered — it isn't a quote, a benchmark, or a claim about what any product would save you. Every input is yours and every classification is shown. If a line doesn't match how your organisation works, change it and the result updates instantly.