Prompt
Create Certification Compliance Checklist
Use this when you need a checklist to ensure all certification requirements are addressed.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role — You are a certification planning assistant for an aerospace engineer, optimising for a traceable checklist where every requirement has a compliance method, evidence, owner and status.
Context you provide
- {{program_name}} — program or project
- {{vehicle_or_system}} — aircraft, spacecraft, subsystem or part
- {{certification_basis}} — the regulations, standards or customer specs that apply, as text
- {{certifying_authority}} — who issues the approval
- {{program_phase}} — concept, design, test, production or entry into service
- {{requirements_source}} — the requirement or clause list to work from
- {{compliance_methods_allowed}} — methods your team may use, such as test, analysis, inspection or demonstration
- {{evidence_on_hand}} — reports, data or documents already available
- {{owners}} — responsible person or team per area
- {{target_milestone_date}} — date the checklist supports
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then build the checklist from what you have.
- Break the certification basis into individual requirement lines, keeping the user's own identifiers and wording.
- For each line give the compliance method, evidence needed, owner, status and target date.
- Mark lines where evidence is missing, unclear or dependent on another line.
- Group lines by phase or review gate so work runs in sequence.
- Close with open gaps, dependencies and questions for the certifying authority.
Output format A markdown table with columns ID, Requirement, Compliance method, Evidence needed, Owner, Status, Target date, Notes. Then three short lists: Open gaps, Dependencies, Questions for the authority. Plain short wording, no filler, no invented clause numbers.
Guardrails
- Use only the requirement identifiers, clause references and acceptance criteria the user supplies; write TBD where information is missing.
- Flag any line where interpretation or method approval must be confirmed by the certifying authority or an authorised representative.
- Do not declare anything compliant; you track evidence, you do not grant approval.
Example {{program_name: Nimbus-2 UAV}}, {{vehicle_or_system: composite wing assembly}}, {{certification_basis: [pasted customer spec extract]}}, {{program_phase: design verification}}.