Readiness report
A PDF of 16 to 24 pages: a band and score for each standard you picked, section scores, stop items, the two-week plan and the reasoning behind each priority.
Are you scheme ready?
Know where you stand before you pay for the audit.
Whether you already hold ISO 9001 or a National Highways Sector Scheme, or you are going for one for the first time, SchemeReady checks your evidence against the published requirements and shows you the gaps before you spend on consultancy days or book an assessment. Six standards: ISO 9001 and sector schemes 12D, 12A/B, 12C, 16 and 23. Pick yours, answer questions written from the documents themselves, and you get a scored readiness report, an audit-day checklist, an evidence list, an action plan and the registers you should already have. Three to five hours at your desk depending on the standard, plus a walk of a live site for the schemes that have one. Your answers are saved to your account, so your colleagues pick them up on any device, and you can export a copy to keep. Nobody at Denver House can read them.
One assessment against one standard is £179 ex VAT; what you pay depends on how many standards you pick and is confirmed when you ask. See pricing. Your answers are saved to your account, and nobody at Denver House can read them. If you choose the Pro review, the documents you pick are sent for that review and nothing else.
Readiness report, summary page
Example Traffic Services Ltd (fictional)
Surveillance visit in 14 days. One site visit recorded. Written from NHSS 12D Issue 5 (July 2025).
Gaps to close
| Section | Score | Band |
|---|---|---|
| A. Certificate, scope and CertCheck | 92 | Ready |
| C. People, competence and skills cards | 61 | Gaps to close |
| D. Vehicles, plant, signals and equipment | 78 | Nearly ready |
| J. Monitoring, audit and management review | 44 | Not ready |
Three stop items. Twelve actions in the two-week plan. Confidence: medium (four answers marked "don't know").
How it works
Four steps, whichever standards you hold. The times are honest estimates from the question counts, not a promise.
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Pick your standards and set your profile
ISO 9001, or one or more of the five sector schemes, whether you hold them now or are applying for the first time, then the categories you work in and how you work. Two minutes. Questions that do not apply to you never appear, and where two standards ask the same thing you answer it once.
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Answer the office questions
Three to five hours depending on the standards you picked, saved as you go in as many sittings as you like. Each question says what an assessor tends to ask to see and which standards it counts toward.
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Walk a live site with your phone
Every sector scheme has a site walk, from about twenty minutes to about an hour and a half. ISO 9001 on its own has no site visit.
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Generate the pack
The report, the checklist, the evidence list, the action plan, the site visit records and the registers workbook, with a score and a band for each standard you picked.
Read how it works in full, including what happens to your data.
What you get
Six files, generated from your own answers. The same six for every standard, each carrying the standards it covers and the issue and date each bank was written from.
Audit-day checklist
Three to five pages of what to have on the table and who should be in the room, also printed inside the report.
Evidence list
Excel and PDF. Every document the questions asked about, where you said it lives, and its status.
Action plan
Excel and PDF. Each gap with a suggested action, an owner column, a target date and an effort estimate.
Site visit records
A dated PDF for each walk, two to four pages, ready to file as an internal site check.
Registers workbook
Excel, twelve register sheets and a how-to sheet, with the current document editions already filled in.
Pro upgrade
Have your documents read against the questions
The Standard licence never sends your answers anywhere. If you add the Pro upgrade, you can pick up to twelve of your own documents, choose the questions you want them checked against, and run one automated AI review. It reports what it found in each document, what it could not find, and which questions it could not match at all.
It is an automated reading, not an opinion from a person. Nobody at Denver House sees the files or the findings. The result is a list of things to look at, not a verdict.
Pricing
One payment for one assessment. No subscription and no email reminders. What you pay depends on how many standards you pick, and it is confirmed before you commit to anything.
Standard
One assessment
For one firm preparing its own visit.
£179 ex VAT, one standard
- One organisation, three people, any devices
- Every deliverable and unlimited site visits
- Results readable for six months after you complete
Several standards are priced when you ask.
Standard plus expert hour
Assessment plus an hour with a consultant
For a firm that wants a person to go through the report with them.
£299 ex VAT, one standard
- Everything in Standard
- An hour on a video call with a CQI and IRCA registered lead auditor
- Booked by email when your assessment is complete
Bought separately the two are £179 and £150.
Standard plus Pro
Assessment with the AI review
For a firm that wants its documents read against the questions as well.
£229 ex VAT, one standard
- Everything in Standard
- AI evidence review: one run on up to twelve documents
- Documents are processed for the run and never kept
The review on its own is £50 if you already hold Standard.
Assessment body
Partnership for the firms you look after
For a consultancy or trade association preparing several firms.
Price on request depends on how many firms you bring
- Bundle it with the service you already offer: clients arrive at your day with the gaps already found
- Read every client's full report the moment it completes
- AI reviews metered per client
Prices are ex VAT; VAT is added on the invoice. Fourteen-day refund, no questions asked.
Accounts are set up by us: tell us which standards you hold or are going for, we invoice you, and when it is paid you get a link to choose your password. Also sold separately: the 12D template pack at £149 or single templates at £29, and the expert hour with a Denver House consultant on its own at £150, the same hour that Standard plus expert hour includes. All ex VAT.
Who it is for
Made for
- Owner-managers and the person who "does the quality" at firms of roughly five to fifty people.
- Firms going for ISO 9001 or a sector scheme for the first time, who want to know what an assessor will look for, and how far off they are, before they book a consultant or an assessment day.
- Firms that already hold ISO 9001 on its own or with one or more of NHSS 12D, 12A/B, 12C, 16 and 23, with a surveillance or recertification visit coming up.
- Firms holding several of those at once. The questions the standards share are asked once, so a firm with 12D and 16 answers 283 questions rather than 359.
- Consultants who prepare several such firms and want the same questions and the same scoring for each one.
Not for
- Firms whose standard is not written yet. BS 99001, ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 are being built, and the other sector schemes are not started; the standards page says where each one stands and you can tell us which you need.
- Anyone who wants an adviser to look at their system. SchemeReady is automated and generic; nobody reads your answers. If you want a person, book an expert hour.
- Anyone expecting a promise about the outcome of an audit. A SchemeReady result is a self-assessment, nothing more.
Where the questions come from
Each bank is written from the published document for that standard and, for the sector schemes, its assessor and client guidance appendices. Every National Highways Sector Scheme applies ISO 9001, so a sector scheme assessment includes the ISO 9001 core and scores you against both; you never pay for ISO 9001 twice. Each question shows the clause or appendix it relates to and which standards it counts toward, so you can check it against your own copy of the document, which Lantra publishes free of charge. No scheme or ISO text is reproduced. Every report prints the bank version and the issue each standard was written against. We check Lantra's Schedule of Suppliers page every month and record the check on the sources page. Written from NHSS 12D Issue 5 (July 2025), last checked 5 September 2026; the issue and date of every other bank are on the standards page.
See the sources and the check log. Read who makes SchemeReady. Preparing more than one firm?