Consulting only. We do not issue certificates.

WAC Standards Studio

Estimate before you call

Six choices give you the consulting days your ISO project will likely need.

Pick the standard, the engagement, headcount, sites, where you are starting from and when you want the certification audit. The estimate, the phases and the mandatory documented information for that standard update as you click. When it looks right, send the scope to us and we reply within two working days.

Estimate for scoping, not a quote ISO 9001 · 14001 · 45001 · 13485 · 27001
A scoping worksheet with a site sketch, headcount tallies and a calculator
Scoping worksheet, first passHeadcount, sites, starting point

Build the scope

It opens on the smallest job we do: an ISO 9001 gap assessment for up to 25 people on one site. Change any line and the ledger on the right recalculates.

The pre-filled inquiry

Send the scope to the studio

Press "Send this scope" in the ledger above and your six choices, the day estimate and the sequence length land in the specification field here. Add a name and a way to reach you. A person reads it and replies within two working days.

  • No fee is agreed through this form. The written quote comes after a scoping call.
  • Prefer the phone? Call (206) 464-3067 and read us the numbers.
  • Or write to [email protected] and paste the specification in.

Filled in by the builder. Edit anything that does not match your floor.

Days are an estimate for scoping, not a quote. Certification audit days are set by your certification body under IAF MD 5.

How the number is made

The arithmetic, in the open

Base days times five multipliers, rounded to the nearest half day. Nothing hidden. A full ISO 9001 implementation for 60 people on one site with a partial system comes out at 14 × 1.3 = 18.2, which we show as 18. The same job at a medical device maker with nothing written moves to 14 × 1.3 × 1.25 × 1.4 = 31.85, shown as 32.

The multipliers come from where time actually goes on our jobs. Headcount matters less than people expect, because twelve operators on the same cell share one work instruction. Sites matter more, because each one has its own document control habits and its own drawer of uncontrolled copies. A lapsed certificate is cheaper than a blank page. The records exist, they just stopped.

Gap assessment base
2 days
Audit readiness base
6 days
Full implementation base
14 days
People 1–25 / 26–85 / 86–175 / 176–500 / 500+
1 · 1.3 · 1.6 · 2 · 2.6
Sites 1 / 2–3 / 4+
1 · 1.35 · 1.7
Nothing written / partial / lapsed
1.25 · 1 · 0.85
9001 / 14001 / 45001 / 13485 / 27001
1 · 1.1 · 1.1 · 1.4 · 1.3

Consulting days are not elapsed time. Eighteen days spread over five months is normal for implementation, because your people need weeks between our visits to run the new procedures and generate records. Nobody can compress that part.

Why the tool warns you about dates

A certification body auditor at stage 2 samples records. If there are no records, there is nothing to sample.

Full implementation needs at least three months of records before stage 2. One internal audit cycle complete, one management review held, corrective actions opened and some of them closed. Pick "under 3 months" with full implementation and the result panel says so in red. That is not us being cautious. It is what the certification body will find.

Audit readiness under three months is often fine, provided the system has been running. Gap assessment has no date constraint at all: two days on site, a ledger in your inbox within a week.

What the estimate leaves out

Travel outside the Seattle area, translation of documents, 27001 technical controls work such as configuring systems, and anything your certification body charges. For 27001 we support the documentation only. We do not do penetration testing or configure your cloud tenancy.

After you press send

What happens to the scope

  1. Now

    Form fills itself

    The inquiry form on this page takes your six choices and the estimate into its specification field. Add a name, an email and anything the chips could not say.

  2. 2 working days

    A person replies

    We read it and reply with questions, usually three or four. How many shifts, who owns document control, what the certification body has already said.

  3. Scoping call

    Forty minutes

    By phone or video. At the end we tell you whether the estimate holds, and which engagement you actually need.

  4. Within a week

    Written quote

    A fixed fee, a fee per site, a day rate or a price per audit cycle, depending on the engagement. See the comparison ledger for which basis applies to which.

Happy with the numbers? Send the scope and we will check them against your floor.

Back to the builder

Read more before you commit: gap assessment · ISO 9001 implementation · audit readiness · documented information · internal audit.