AI QA Manual

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AI QA Manual

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For a company that has never been certified and has no manual to import. This is the front matter an auditor looks for before reading a word of the content: whose manual it is, its number, the scope it claims, and who approved it.

What the company does, in the words that will appear on the certificate. It can be changed later, but an auditor reads it first and measures everything else against it.

Creates the manual with a draft Revision 1, then opens it at clause 4.1 to work through.

Then: every clause, one at a time

Creating the manual opens the writing screen — the clause tree on the left, and for each clause what this company actually does to meet it. Nothing reaches a copy holder until you issue a revision, so there is no harm in a half-written manual.

Clauses marked not applicable need a justification: an auditor accepts an exclusion that is reasoned and refuses one that is merely missing.

Calibration register

Clause 7.1.5: the instruments this company's conformity decisions rest on. An auditor who finds an uncalibrated gauge does not raise a finding about the gauge — they raise one about everything it has measured since.

Record an instrument

The laboratory and its certificate number matter as much as the dates. A register that cannot say who proved the instrument, and against what, proves nothing itself.

Calibration history

Every certificate these instruments have had before the current one, and anything taken off the register. Kept because "show me the previous certificate for that scale" is an ordinary question at an audit, and an update that overwrote it could not answer.

Certificate

The certificate is the clock the audit programme runs against. A surveillance audit that slips past the expiry is not a late meeting, it is a lapsed certification.

Audit calendar

Book an audit

The programme

Licence

Paste the key you were sent. Without a current licence the manual can still be read, printed and exported — only new revisions, copy holders and issued copies stop.

Language

The language your quality system is written in. Everything the AI writes for you — the questions it asks about how you work, the wording it drafts, the reasons behind a score, the names of your audits — comes back in it. Clause numbers and the names of the standards stay as they are: an auditor asks for 8.4 by number in every country.

The app's own buttons and labels stay in English for now. A manual written in your language matters; a button marked “Print” does not.

Your company name and logo

These appear at the top of every screen, on your sign-in page, and on the cover of every copy you print. The logo is kept in your own database, so it is covered by the same backup as your manual and goes nowhere else.

PNG, JPEG or WebP, under 200KB. It is drawn about 30 pixels high.

People who can sign in

Everyone has their own login and their own role. This is not the same list as the controlled copy holders: a copy holder receives the manual and never signs in, and does not use a licence seat.

Add someone

Licence seats

Each active login uses a seat of its role. Deactivating someone frees theirs.

What each role can do

Manuals

One manual per company. Each keeps its own revisions, copy holders and distribution register.

Add a manual

How a release reaches clients

Clients never install anything: they are always on whatever is deployed to live. This page sets how often that happens, and records what has gone out.

StepWhat happens
1. BuildChanges are made and tested on the development copy. Clients see nothing.
2. Staginggit push origin main deploys to the staging copy — same code, its own database. The tests run first, and nothing restarts if they fail.
3. Try itUse staging as a client would. This is the only step that cannot be automated.
4. Releasegit push origin main:live. Every database is backed up first, then live restarts on the new version.
If it goes wronggit push origin <previous>:live --force puts the old version back.

The schedule below is a reminder, not a trigger. Nothing deploys on its own — a release is always a decision you make after looking at staging. Security fixes and anything that loses data go out the same day, whatever the schedule says.

Release schedule

Once a month means the first chosen weekday of the month — "the 1st" drifts across the week and lands on weekends. Every two weeks counts from the last live release, so a skipped slot does not reset the rhythm.

Deployments

Company documents

The manual is the top of the pyramid. Underneath it sit the procedures that say how the work is done and the forms and records that prove it was. File each one against the clauses it answers — that is what an auditor asks for. Audit reports have their own screen, Import audits.

Import an existing manual

Upload the company's current manual as .docx, .pdf, .txt or .md. It is split by clause number and heading, and nothing is saved until you review it below.

Import a procedure

Upload it, check the clauses it is filed against, and save. The text is kept so it can be read and printed here; the original file is not, because this is a quality system and not a document store.

Filed already

Import audits

An audit report is a record of a judgement. An internal one is yours, under clause 9.2; an external one belongs to the body that wrote it. Both are filed against the clauses they looked at, and an audit that already happened can be added to the calendar as it is imported — that is how two years of past audits become a history rather than a pile of files.

The report

Audit reports held

Controlled copy holders

Only people on this register can be issued a controlled copy. Each keeps their copy number for good, so the register still explains where copy 4 went after its holder leaves.

Add a copy holder

Uncontrolled copy

Watermarked, carries the revision number and the date it was printed, and says plainly that it is valid on that day only. Anyone may have one. Each print is logged so you can answer "how many old copies are out there?"

Controlled copy

Numbered, named, and recorded against the revision in force. Pick a holder — this records the issue and opens a covering email.

Revisions

Issue register

Every controlled copy ever issued, newest first. This is the list an auditor asks to see.

Uncontrolled prints

Manual details

These appear on the cover of every copy.

The licence, your company logo and your password have moved to Administration — they belong to the system, not to this manual.

Take a copy of everything

One file holding this manual as it would be printed, plus every record behind it as a spreadsheet: revisions, clauses, copy holders, audits, findings and the calibration register. It needs no licence and none of this software to read. Worth taking each time you issue a revision.

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