Get assessed, independently of the standard
Assessment is delivered by assessors authorised by Decision Standards Institute under the DSI 001 scheme, independent of the body that publishes the standard. That separation is what makes a GBI result authentic to third parties.
Your path to a classification
For an organisation that runs an autonomous system and wants a classification it can show, here are the steps. Preparation and assessment are deliberately separate parties.
Confirm your system is in scope: an autonomous system that makes, or substantially influences, consequential decisions. The six dimensions define what is assessed.
A Readiness Profile, a document-based diagnostic, shows your priority build areas before a full assessment. It is delivered by the authorised assessor and its fee is creditable against assessment.
Close the gaps and assemble contemporaneous governance evidence across the six dimensions, graded under EIS-01. The body that assesses you cannot be the body that prepared you. Where the assessor is under common control with an evidence-preparation entity, that relationship is disclosed on every report and in the assessor directory.
An assessor authorised by Decision Standards Institute under the DSI 001 scheme, independent of the standard and of anyone who helped you prepare, assesses the system over the evidence window and issues the Governance Benchmark Index.
Assessed, Compliant at or below 2.50, or Certified at or below 1.75, with the dimensional profile, evidence tiers and any remediation roadmap. A result an insurer, board, buyer, lender or regulator can read.
Reassessment on schedule and on material-change triggers. Assessed carries a 60-day reliance window, Compliant is valid 12 months, and Certified runs a 24-month cycle with interim surveillance.
What you receive
- An independently assessed GBI result and the dimensional profile behind it.
- The evidence tier per dimension, and any active compounding-risk flags.
- A classification an insurer, board, buyer, lender or regulator can read.
- A remediation plan where gaps are found; findings are the point, not a failure.
How assessment is priced
A DSI 001 assessment is scoped to the system, not sold from a rate card. A single published figure would either mislead or anchor low, so an assessment is quoted at scoping by the assessor. The Readiness Profile is the fixed-fee entry point, and its fee is creditable against a subsequent assessment.
What scopes an assessment fee:
- Scope: how many decision systems, and the breadth of the use case.
- Dimensional depth: which of the six dimensions are material, and the evidence each requires.
- Evidence window: assessment runs over a minimum 180-day window; contemporaneous evidence reduces effort, reconstructed evidence increases it.
- Classification target: Assessed, Compliant or Certified, where Certified carries surveillance over a 24-month cycle.
- Surveillance and triggers: reassessment cadence and material-change re-tests for ongoing classifications.
- Remediation: whether findings require a remediation cycle before re-test.
Assessment is quoted at scoping by the assessor. Academy programme pricing is fixed and shown separately.