Quadrasystems.net India Private Limited has become one of the first organisations in India to achieve ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification, the world's first international standard for Artificial Intelligence Management Systems. The audit was conducted by TUV SUD, placing the Coimbatore-headquartered firm's AI practice in a small group of certified entities worldwide. The certification arrives as enterprises face mounting pressure to demonstrate AI governance to boards, regulators, and procurement teams.
ISO/IEC 42001:2023 establishes auditable requirements for how organisations govern AI across its full lifecycle-risk management, accountability structures, data practices, deployment controls, and incident response. Certification requires an independent external audit; organisations cannot self-attest. For clients, this provides an independently verified governance framework that reduces their own compliance and vendor-risk burden.
Boards increasingly require assurance before AI systems touch revenue, customer data, or regulated operations. Procurement and vendor-risk teams in banking, pharmaceutical, and healthcare sectors have begun assessing AI governance as part of vendor due diligence. Major regulations, including the European Union's AI Act, are converging on management-system requirements that ISO/IEC 42001 directly addresses. For executives and boards driving AI strategy, the certification provides a concrete, auditable response to due-diligence queries-a development that sits squarely within AI for Executives & Strategy.
Client impact: a due-diligence answer
Prashanth Subramanian, Co-Founder and Director, said, "For our clients deploying AI in regulated industries, ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification is a due-diligence answer. When a board or a regulator asks how their AI vendor is governed, our clients now hold an independently audited response."
The certification scope covers Quadra's AI practice, which designs and deploys production-grade AI systems for clients across banking, manufacturing, healthcare, and pharmaceutical sectors. Visharg Shah, Senior Specialist - Data Science at Asian Paints Limited, noted that Quadra's engagement "significantly accelerated validation and progress across key use cases." He added, "Quadra's ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification reflects the level of rigor, discipline, and best practices that were clearly evident throughout the engagement."
Building on existing certifications
Quadrasystems.net already holds ISO 9001 (quality management) and ISO 27001 (information security management) certifications. ISO/IEC 42001:2023 extends the organisation's independently audited governance framework to its AI practice, a move that reflects the growing need for structured AI for Management in enterprise environments. All three certifications are issued by TUV SUD.
Quadra, a global cloud and AI solutions provider, has served over 3,000 enterprises across 25 years, holding 750+ professional certifications and premier tier partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, and Google. The company architects the Intelligent Enterprise for India's most ambitious businesses, translating cloud and AI innovation into competitive edge.
Why this matters for management
For managers in regulated industries, the certification provides an independently audited framework that answers the due-diligence questions boards and regulators increasingly ask. It reduces the vendor-risk burden for procurement teams and offers a clear benchmark for assessing AI vendors. As AI regulation tightens globally, having a certified AI management system becomes a practical requirement for doing business with large enterprises-and a signal that a vendor's governance practices have been externally validated.
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