Find the ISO standards your business actually needs. In 60 seconds.
The smart place to start — one description replaces the catalogue crawl and the consultancy discovery phase.
ISO DNA · Live specimen · — standards
The scoping tax
The most expensive question in certification is the first one.
“Which standards apply to us?” Every certification project starts there — and most companies pay a consultancy a discovery phase to answer it. Weeks of workshops and stakeholder interviews later, you get what you needed on day one: a list.
| Discovery, the old way | ISO Explorer | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Thousands of pounds before implementation begins | Free to run. No account required. |
| Time | Two to six weeks of workshops and interviews | About a minute — no workshops, no interviews |
| Deliverable | A slide deck, and a proposal for more work | A ranked, explained standards map you keep |
Consultants are worth paying for implementation. They are not worth paying for the table of contents.
What comes back
Not 48,000 results. The dozen that matter.
Ranked
A shortlist in priority order
Standards that fit your operations, ordered by how much they matter — core requirements first, adjacent options behind them.
Translated
Plain-language briefings
What each standard covers, why it applies to you, and what adopting it involves. Written for the person making the decision, not the auditor.
Foundations
The anchors, flagged
Cross-cutting management standards — quality, security, environment — are marked as foundations, so you sequence certification in the right order.
Portable
A brief you can forward
Send the result to your board or your consultant. Scoping is settled; spend the first meeting on the actual work.
Specimen index
No two come back the same.
Profiles generated by real searches, saved to the public gallery. Colour is the industry mix; width is how much each standard matters.
Process
From description to shortlist.
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Step 1
Describe your operations
Industry, processes, markets, plans. Two sentences work; more detail sharpens the result.
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Step 2
The catalogue, read for you
Your description is weighed against all 48,000+ standards and ranked by fit for your industry, scale, and risks. Only what applies comes back.
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Step 3
Walk in prepared
Keep your shortlist, read the briefings, and engage consultants for implementation — not orientation.