UK ISO compliance software built by an IRCA Registered Principal Auditor. Manage ISO 9001, 14001, 45001, 27001, 27701 and 42001 — evidence, gap analysis, audits and certification readiness — in one auditor-credible platform designed for UK SMEs and ISO consultants.
Document control, evidence mapping, risk and opportunity registers, internal audits, corrective actions and management review — covering the high-level structure clauses 4–10 shared by every modern ISO management-system standard.
Run ISO 9001, 14001, 45001, 27001, 27701, 42001 and more as an integrated management system — one document estate, not siloed modules.
Upload a procedure, calibration record or contract — PICMS identifies it, embeds it, and links it automatically to the right clause of the right standard.
Multi-standard gap analysis with AI: see exactly which clauses you have evidence for, which are partial, and which still need work before the auditor arrives.
Internal audit programme with finding tracker, evidence pack export, ISO 19011 audit trail, and direct CAPA generation from any finding.
Version history, approver, effective date, distribution. ISO 9001 7.5 compliant out of the box — no SharePoint folder restructure required.
NCRs from audits, complaints, incidents — through to root cause, corrective action, and effectiveness verification with documented closure.
Per-standard readiness scoring, mandatory-document checklists, evidence coverage heatmaps. Know your audit risk before the certification body does.
Single 5×5 risk register feeding 9001+14001+45001+27001. One management review covering every standard in scope. One audit trail.
Pick the standards in your certification scope. PICMS runs them as an integrated management system rather than as parallel disconnected modules.
The most-implemented ISO standard worldwide. Context, risk, document control, customer focus, internal audit, management review, CAPA.
ISO 14001:2015Environmental aspects register, legal register, compliance evaluation, KPI tracking, life-cycle thinking, operational control.
ISO 45001:2018Hazard register, incident command, RIDDOR workflow, legal register, worker consultation, internal audit, management review.
ISO 27001:202293 Annex A controls, Statement of Applicability, risk register, document control, internal audit, ISMS management review.
ISO 27701PIMS extension to ISO 27001 — adds controllers/processors controls, DPIAs, UK GDPR alignment.
ISO 4200138 Annex A AI controls, bias detection, AI audit logs (input/output tokens), responsible-AI governance.
ISO 22301BCP plans, activity register, BCP test scheduling, recovery time objectives, BIA workflow.
ISO 13485, 22000, 50001Medical devices, food safety, energy management — supported on the Certification and Enterprise tiers.
Most ISO compliance platforms on the UK market were designed for the US SOC 2 audience and bolted on ISO 27001 later. Their legal registers default to US OSHA, their date formats to MM/DD/YYYY, their certification logic to the AICPA trust services criteria. UK SMEs and ISO consultants end up bending the tool to fit their context — or worse, accepting that the platform's idea of "compliance" doesn't actually match what their UKAS-accredited certification body will ask for on audit day.
PICMS was built the other way round. Every workflow starts from UK regulatory context — HSWA 1974, CDM 2015, UK GDPR, COSHH, RIDDOR, the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016 — and the clause structures map onto what an IRCA Registered Principal Auditor expects to see on a real UK audit.
ISO consultants need three things from a software platform: strict client-data isolation, a way to bring their own brand to the client-facing experience, and pricing that doesn't penalise growth. PICMS gives you all three.
The Consultant Starter tier (£599/month) provides a consultant dashboard with isolated workspaces per client. Switch between client tenants from a single login, run cross-client compliance reports, manage your engagement portfolio in one view. The White-Label add-on (£350/month) lets you put your own logo, custom domain (e.g. compliance.yourconsultancy.co.uk) and colour palette in front of clients — they log in to "your" platform rather than a generic PICMS-branded one.
Pricing scales by workspace (£150/month per additional client) rather than per-user, so adding a junior consultant or associate to your team does not increase your licence cost. Most consultants break even against billable hours saved at three managed clients; from there, each new engagement is essentially margin.
A purpose-built ISO compliance platform sits in a different category to both Excel-and-SharePoint estate management and seven-figure enterprise GRC suites. Here's how PICMS compares for a typical UK SME.
| Capability | Spreadsheets & SharePoint | PICMS (ISO compliance software) | Enterprise GRC (ServiceNow, MetricStream) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup time | Already there — but no clause structure | Same day; import existing documents | 3–9 months of implementation services |
| UK ISO clause structure | Build it yourself | Built in, auditor-credible | Built in (but US-centric defaults) |
| Evidence-to-clause traceability | Manual; rots over time | AI-mapped automatically | Manual or services-led |
| UK data residency | Wherever your tenant lives | AWS eu-west-2 (London) only | Often US-default; UK on request |
| Designed by an IRCA auditor | No | Yes | Generally no |
| SME pricing | Free (your time isn't) | From £149/month (public) | Typically £50k+ per year |
| Free trial | — | 14 days, no credit card | Demo-only via sales rep |
| Walk-away cost (data export) | Free — your spreadsheets | Standard formats; documented exit | Often proprietary; expensive to leave |
Spreadsheets work fine for ten documents, three risks and a quarterly meeting in a five-person business. They stop working the moment the auditor asks you to demonstrate traceability between a non-conformity in 2024 and the corrective action that closed it out in 2025 — by which point the spreadsheet has been edited 200 times by 12 people and the change history is gone. Enterprise GRC tools do everything PICMS does and more — but their implementation cost, services dependency, and feature surface area are sized for FTSE 350 estates, not for a Berkshire-based engineering firm with 30 staff chasing first ISO 9001 certification.
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ISO compliance software is a purpose-built platform that helps organisations meet the requirements of one or more ISO management-system standards (such as ISO 9001, 14001, 45001, 27001, 27701 or 42001) and stay audit-ready between certification visits. A credible product covers document control with version history, risk and opportunity registers, internal audit programmes, corrective action (CAPA) tracking, management review records, and evidence mapping against the clauses of each standard.
The best fit for a UK SME is software that (a) is built around UK regulatory context (HSWA 1974, CDM 2015, UK GDPR, COSHH, RIDDOR, Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016), (b) has been designed by an IRCA Registered Principal Auditor or equivalent so the clause structure is auditor-credible, and (c) hosts customer data in the UK. PICMS was designed against all three criteria — but we publish a transparent comparison at /best-iso-compliance-software-uk so you can shortlist alternatives like Mango QHSE, Citation, Cority and Vanta against the same lens.
Yes — PICMS covers the full ISO management-system ladder used by UK SMEs: ISO 9001 (quality), ISO 14001 (environmental), ISO 45001 (occupational health and safety), ISO 27001 (information security), ISO 27701 (privacy information management) and ISO 42001 (AI management). The Professional tier (£449/month) includes three of these standards; the Certification tier (£699/month) includes five; the Enterprise tier removes the cap entirely. Standards run as an integrated management system, not as siloed modules — one document, one audit, one management review for everything in scope.
No. ISO certification is issued exclusively by accredited certification bodies (in the UK, those audited and accredited by UKAS — the United Kingdom Accreditation Service). Software like PICMS supports certification readiness and ongoing compliance management — it does not issue certificates, replace independent third-party audits, or substitute for legal or regulatory advice. The role of the software is to make sure that when the auditor arrives, every piece of evidence they need to see is in one place, current, and traceable.
Yes. The Consultant Starter tier (£599/month) gives consultants a multi-client workspace with strict data isolation between each client tenant. The White-Label add-on (£350/month) lets the consultant brand the client-facing experience with their own logo, domain and colour palette. Per-workspace pricing (£150/month per additional client) scales with engagements rather than per-user, so growing a consulting team does not inflate the licence. Most consultants break even against billable-hours saved at three managed clients.
PICMS uses retrieval-augmented AI agents to map uploaded documents to specific clauses of each ISO standard automatically — for example, a calibration record uploaded to the platform is identified, linked to ISO 9001 clause 7.1.5 (monitoring and measuring resources), and made available in the auditor pack against that clause. The Golden Thread feature links evidence across modules (a risk to its mitigating procedure, that procedure to the training records of staff who follow it, those records to the audit that verified them) so the auditor can follow the traceability chain in one click rather than ten file-server folders.
Yes — PICMS ships UK industry packs at £89-£199/month on top of (or instead of) the core ISO ladder. Construction (£89/month) covers CHAS, Constructionline, SafeContractor and CDM 2015. Healthcare (£89/month) covers CQC fundamental standards and NHS DSPT. Cyber & Privacy (£89/month) covers Cyber Essentials, ISO 27701 and UK GDPR. Commercial Diving (from £199/month) is aligned with DWR 1997, HSE ACoP L103/L104 and IMCA D018/D023/D040 reference areas. PICMS is independent of CHAS, IMCA, CQC and other accreditation bodies — not affiliated, endorsed or certified by them.
For a UK SME (5-50 staff) covering a single ISO standard, expect £100-£250/month at the entry tier. For the integrated EHSQ triad (ISO 9001 + 14001 + 45001) with autonomous AI evidence mapping, expect £350-£600/month. Above £700/month per organisation typically buys enterprise features like multi-site groups, federated reporting and full API access. PICMS pricing sits inside these ranges and is published publicly: Essentials £149/month, Professional £449/month, Certification £699/month, Enterprise on application. Free 14-day trial, no credit card surprise.
Auditor-credible vendors don't pretend software replaces management:
What PICMS does is give you, your team and your auditor a single source of truth — so the certification visit is a verification exercise rather than a documentation hunt.
14 days free, full feature access, no credit card surprise. Built by an IRCA® Registered Principal Auditor — the kind of person who'd be on the other side of your certification visit.