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Prompt

Create Certification Compliance Checklist

Use this when you need a checklist to ensure all certification requirements are addressed.

How to use it

  1. Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
  2. Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
  3. Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt

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

  1. Ask for any missing inputs, then build the checklist from what you have.
  2. Break the certification basis into individual requirement lines, keeping the user's own identifiers and wording.
  3. For each line give the compliance method, evidence needed, owner, status and target date.
  4. Mark lines where evidence is missing, unclear or dependent on another line.
  5. Group lines by phase or review gate so work runs in sequence.
  6. 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}}.