Consulting only. We do not issue certificates.

WAC Standards Studio

Contact the studio

Send the standard and the headcount. A written scope comes back within two working days.

WAC is a quality management system consultant at 1325 6th Ave in Seattle. Write to us about ISO 9001, 14001, 45001, 13485 or 27001 documentation, and the first reply is a scope on paper, not a sales call.

Reply in 2 working days No fee for the scope We do not certify
A ruled notebook with notes from a scoping call beside a desk phone
The phone that answers (206) 464-3067Seattle, WA

Form Inquiry, one page

Request a scope from an ISO 9001 consultant in Seattle

Five minutes of typing saves a forty-minute call. Tell us what exists today. A shared drive full of drafts counts.

Kent, Everett, Tacoma. If there are three sites, list all three.

Filled in for you if you came from the scope builder. Edit it freely.

Inquiries are kept for 36 months and never sold. Nothing you send here is passed to a certification body.

What happens after you press send

Four steps. The first two cost you nothing. You decide at step three whether there is an engagement.

  1. Same day

    We read it and log it

    The inquiry lands in our inbox as one line: standard, headcount, sites, date. If something obvious is missing, such as which clause 4.3 scope you intend to certify, we write back and ask rather than guess.

  2. Within 2 working days

    A written scope arrives

    One or two pages. Which engagement fits, the indicative consulting days, what we need from you and what we will not do. For a gap assessment that means a fixed fee per site. For implementation, a fixed fee agreed after a 30-minute scoping call.

  3. Week 1

    Scoping call, if you want one

    We ask for your org chart, the process list and any document you already control. You ask us anything. Then an engagement letter, or a polite no from either side.

  4. Week 2 onward

    First day on site

    Usually a floor walk and the document master list. If your document control lives in a shared drive called FINAL_v7, we start there.

Questions people ask before they write

Can you get us certified by a date?

No. We do not issue certificates. A certification body does, and it cannot also be your consultant. We get your system ready for the stage 1 and stage 2 audits and tell you plainly when a date is not realistic. Full implementation needs at least three months of records before stage 2.

We are 12 people. Is this overkill?

Often it is, if someone sold you a 140-page manual. A 12-person shop can run ISO 9001 on a handful of procedures and honest records. Say the headcount in the form and the scope will be sized to it.

Do you work outside Seattle?

Yes, across Washington and elsewhere in the United States. On-site days outside the Puget Sound area carry travel time, and the scope will say how much.

Who should not write to us?

Anyone who wants a certificate without changing how work is done, or a set of procedures for processes nobody runs. We will not write those. Everyone else, including organisations whose last audit went badly, is exactly who we work with.

Not sure which engagement fits? Compare all five, or build the scope yourself.