Solution

Collect ISO evidence from hundreds of organisations at once.

Issue every request in one run, read each document against the standard, and surface only the files with a real gap.

Certification cycle Running
01

Cycle opened

Requests issued to 128 organisations.

done
02

Evidence read

Certificates and manuals extracted.

done
03

Gaps flagged

9 files missing clause evidence.

running
04

Assessor reviews

Only the exceptions are opened.

queued
05

Dossiers delivered

Renewal dates scheduled.

queued
standard ISO 9001 in cycle 128 exceptions 9
Workflow visual: Certification cycle progressing through cycle opened, evidence read, gaps flagged, assessor reviews, dossiers delivered.
Who it's for

One request run, hundreds of organisations.

Blackbird's AI issues every request, reads what each organisation returns, and checks it against the clauses of the standard. Your assessors open only the files with a real gap.

Certification bodies Notified bodies Testing labs Scheme owners Group compliance

The same run can span many organisations, multiple sites per organisation and several standards at once — each with its own evidence set and renewal clock.

Surveillance cycle collected in bulk by AI
ISO 9001 surveillance 128 organisations · 1 request run
Single-site 94 organisations
Multi-site 34 organisations · 96 sites
Complete 112 dossiers
In review 7 dossiers
Deficiency 9 missing clause evidence
One run covers the whole cycle. Bulk is the point: assessors only ever open the nine files that actually have a gap.
How Blackbird runs it

Six stages, mapped to this workflow.

Describe it once. Blackbird builds it, runs it, and keeps a record of every step — against your requirements, not a fixed template.

01

Build

Define the standards, clauses and evidence each certification type requires.

02

Collect

Issue requests to every organisation and site in the cycle in one run.

03

Understand

Classify each document and extract scope, dates and clause coverage.

04

Validate

Check evidence against the standard, catch expired certificates and uncovered clauses.

05

Approve

Assessor reviews the exceptions and records the decision.

06

Deliver

Dossier per organisation, with surveillance and renewal dates scheduled.

What Blackbird collects

It asks for exactly the right documents.

You define what's required — by entity type, risk tier or jurisdiction. Blackbird then requests it from the right party, reads each document, and connects the details to the record. A typical set looks like this:

Requested from

The organisation

What the AI reads from it

Standard Scope Issue & expiry dates Issuing body

Then it checks

In date, and scope matches the application
Who's involved

Every party, one workflow.

Complex workflows are rarely two-sided. Blackbird tracks each party’s obligations separately and chases only the one holding things up.

The organisation

Submits its own evidence

Each site

Multi-site scopes owe evidence per location

Accredited labs

Supply test reports directly

Your assessors

Review exceptions and decide

Scheme or accreditation body

Sets the clauses that must be evidenced

Your certification system

Receives the dossier and renewal dates

What comes back

A dossier per organisation

Verified, typed, and traceable to source.

Assessment record Complete
Standard ISO 9001
Organisations in cycle 128 verified
Complete dossiers 112 verified
Open deficiencies 9 flagged
Next surveillance 2027-04-12 scheduled
source organisation evidence + labs delivery API u00b7 webhook
Integrations & trust

Delivered where the work already happens.

Structured records over REST API, MCP and webhooks, so verified data lands in the system you already use — with the evidence behind every field.

API MCP Webhooks DocuSign Certification systems
SOC

SOC 2 Type II

ISO

ISO 27001

GDPR

GDPR

Verified vs inferred — every field records how it was established.

Full audit trail — every request, check and approval is timestamped and attributed.

People stay accountable — AI collects and validates; your team decides.

FAQ

Common questions.

How do you collect ISO certification evidence in bulk?

Blackbird issues the same structured request to every organisation in a cycle at once, rather than one thread at a time. Each organisation responds against its own item list, and Blackbird reads what arrives, checks it against the standard's clauses, and reports the whole cycle's status in one view.

Which standards does it work with?

Any standard whose evidence you can describe. It is most commonly used for management-system standards u2014 ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, ISO 45001 u2014 because their evidence sets are stable and repeat every surveillance cycle. You define the clauses and the evidence each one requires; Blackbird does not ship a fixed interpretation of any standard.

Can it check evidence completeness against a specific standard?

Yes. Each required clause is an item, and documents are mapped to the clauses they evidence. A clause with nothing against it is reported as a gap and the specific missing document is re-requested, rather than the whole file being returned as incomplete.

How does it handle multi-site scopes?

Each site is tracked as its own set of obligations under the organisation's scope. A site that has submitted nothing is flagged even when the organisation's central evidence is complete, which is a gap that is easy to miss when everything arrives as one bundle.

Does it track certificate expiry, surveillance and renewal cycles?

Yes. Expiry and issue dates are extracted from the certificates themselves, so an expired or soon-to-expire certificate is flagged rather than accepted. Surveillance and renewal dates are scheduled per organisation once a dossier is complete.

Does Blackbird issue certificates or make the certification decision?

No, and it should not. It owns collection, extraction, clause mapping, completeness and the audit trail. Granting, refusing, suspending or withdrawing certification remains your body's decision, recorded against the assessor who made it.

How do you collect ISO certification evidence at scale?

Blackbird issues the evidence request to every organisation in the cycle at once, then reads each document and checks it against the standard's clauses. Your assessors only look at the exceptions.

Run your next certification cycle in one pass.