Notes from building a measurement instrument
What standards and assessors actually ask for, why the usual proxies do not hold, and
what we get wrong along the way. We publish the failures too, because a company
selling evidence should be able to show its own.
29 Sep 2026
ISO 42001
9 min read
Clause 7.2 asks for documented evidence that your people are competent,
not that they attended something. The market answers with four kinds of proxy, and
every one of them is an inference from a different activity. What the proxies miss,
why self-assessment explains under six percent of demonstrated competence, and what is
achievable if your audit is 90 days out.
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What is coming. How to tell whether your AI training worked, the
confidence gap and why overconfident teams do not escalate, and what a workforce
competence report should actually contain. If there is something you would rather read
first,
tell us and we will write that one next.