Platform
Ready for the audit without the six weeks before it
Evidence attached to the requirement it proves, findings tracked to closure, and a change history that answers who changed this and when - so preparing is a view rather than a project.
What does audit readiness actually mean?
That the evidence sits where the requirement lives, all year, rather than being assembled in the six weeks before an auditor arrives. A compliance register is most of it already. If every obligation carries an owner, a frequency and the record proving it was met, an audit becomes a view of the register rather than a hunt through shared drives. Frontline adds the parts an audit needs on top of that: an audit programme, findings, corrective actions tracked to closure, and a change history on every record.
- Evidence attached to the requirement, not filed beside it
- Findings and corrective actions tracked to closure, with owners
- Full change history - who changed what, and when
- Internal, client and certification audits on one structure
- 0
- weeks of evidence gathering before the audit
- 100%
- of findings carry an owner and a due date
- 1
- trail across every recordAttributed, timestamped, reversible
- 24h
- from your audit programme to a live one
The problem
Six weeks of finding things you already had
The evidence almost always exists. It is just not where the requirement is.
So the month before an audit turns into archaeology. Someone emails site managers for inspection records, digs training certificates out of an LMS, and rebuilds a picture the organisation genuinely had all along. The work is not proving compliance, it is locating proof.
Then the auditor finds something, a corrective action gets raised in a spreadsheet, and by the next audit nobody can say whether it closed. Findings that do not close are how a good audit result becomes a bad one the following year.
- Evidence stored against the requirement, as the work happens
- Findings with owners, due dates and a closed state
- A change history you do not have to reconstruct
What it does
The programme, the evidence and the findings in one place
Evidence where the requirement is
Inspections, certificates, training records and returns attach to the obligation or control they prove, so the pack assembles itself instead of being collected.
Audit programmes
Schedule internal audits against sites, standards or clauses, each with a scope and an owner. What is due, what is overdue and what is done is one view.
Findings that close
Every finding carries an owner, a due date and a state. Corrective actions are tracked to closure rather than to the bottom of a spreadsheet.
Change history on everything
Who raised it, who changed it, what it said before, and when. Insurers and regulators ask this, and it should not need an email thread to answer.
Clause mapping
Map controls and evidence to the standard's clauses, so an ISO or client audit reads against the framework the auditor brought with them.
Client and second-party audits
The same structure serves an auditor from a customer as from a certification body. Most groups face more of the first kind than the second.
How it works
From a register to a state of readiness
Start from the register you already have
Obligations, risks and controls. If those carry owners and evidence, most of audit readiness is already true and you are checking rather than building.
Add the audit programme
Which audits, against what, on what cycle, owned by whom. Internal and external on the same schedule.
Findings land as records
With an owner and a due date, in the same system as the work that fixes them, so closing one is visible rather than asserted.
The pack is a view
When the auditor arrives the evidence is where the requirement is. Preparation becomes checking, not collecting.
Included
What you get on day one
- Audit programme with scope, cycle and owners
- Evidence linked to the requirement it proves
- Findings with owners, due dates and closure states
- Corrective actions tracked in the same system
- Clause and standard mapping
- Full change history on every record
- Internal, client and certification audits on one structure
- Read-only auditor access, scoped to what they should see
Questions we get asked
Can we give an auditor access directly?
Yes, read-only and scoped. It saves the step where someone exports a pack of everything and hopes it contains what was actually asked for.
Which standards does it map to?
Whatever you are certified or audited against. The clause structure is configured rather than built in, because groups are usually audited against several and one of them is a customer's own framework.
Do we need the compliance register first?
It helps a lot, and most of the value is there. A compliance obligations register with owners and evidence is audit readiness with a different label on it.
What about audit findings we already have open?
Import them. Starting a new system with the open findings left behind in the old one is how they stay open.
See how ready you actually are.
Bring your last audit's findings. When your spot comes up we show you what closing them looks like in one system.
- Evidence where the requirement is
- Findings tracked to closure
- Scoped auditor access