One live revision, never a wrong copy
The current document is the one your team sees. Superseded revisions are kept, but they cannot be mistaken for live.
Source of truth
Document Management System
Walk into the audit with nothing left to dig for.
The auditor asks for a procedure. You do not open a shared drive and hope it is the current revision, and you do not chase sign-offs that were never logged. Every controlled document lives in one place, every revision kept, every acknowledgment on record. When the auditor wants proof, you hand it over in one click. In a regulated shop that is not convenience. It is the certification your contracts depend on, protected.
30 minutes · Tuesday to Thursday · free 2-seat pilot for qualified teams
The cost
70 to 90% less than classroom
No travel, no seats sitting empty on the floor, no per-head classroom invoice. The capability stays in house.
The speed
Audit evidence in minutes, not days
Controlled documents, revisions, and acknowledgments compile into one indexed package on demand.
The risk
A major finding puts the cert at risk
In aerospace and defense, the certification is what lets you bid. Loose document control is where findings start.
This is the actual system, not a mockup.
A controlled document that knows the standards it satisfies, the revisions behind it, and the records it links to. No binders. No guessing which one is live.
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Released and mapped. The current revision, every standard it satisfies, and the Audit-Evidence Package one click away. This is the controlled record, not a file in a folder.
/workbench
Drafted in plain language. Describe the procedure you need. It comes back as a controlled Rev 1 draft, ready for review and release.
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Every revision and action, on the record. Draft, review, release, with an append-only audit trail and links to the clause, corrective action, related document, or training record.
The week before an audit, today
Version chaos, and someone is accountable for it.
- Three copies of the same procedure, and nobody is sure which one is live.
- A process changed months ago. The re-training never went out.
- Read-and-understand sign-offs scattered across email, half of them missing.
- Evidence assembled by hand the night before, with a finding waiting for the gap you missed.
The week before an audit, with the DMS
One source of truth that answers back when the auditor asks.
- Every document controlled, every revision kept, the current one obvious at a glance.
- Change a document and the system flags what it touches, so nothing falls out of sync.
- Read-and-understand acknowledgments captured and timestamped, per person, per revision.
- The Audit-Evidence Package exports as one indexed PDF, ready to hand over.
What your team gets
Six things that turn document control into a non-event.
An append-only trail, not a save-over
Every revision is preserved with its review and release record. The history is the evidence, and it cannot be quietly edited.
Audit-proof
Proof your team actually read it
Read-and-understand acknowledgments captured per person and per revision, timestamped. Competence you can show, not assert.
Per person, per rev
Tied to the standard it satisfies
Documents link to the clause, the training, and the related records they support, so coverage is visible and gaps surface before an auditor finds them.
Clause-mapped
Change one thing, see what it touches
When a document changes, the system flags the linked records and training that may need to follow. Nothing drifts out of sync in silence.
Nothing left stranded
The binder, rebuilt in one click
The Audit-Evidence Package compiles your controlled documents, revisions, and acknowledgments into one indexed PDF, the objective evidence a registrar asks for.
Registrar-ready
Built by a practitioner, not an academic. Two decades inside AS9100 and ITAR audits shaped how every revision, linkage, and acknowledgment works. This is document control the way someone who has sat across from the auditor would build it.
A consultant leaves when the invoice is paid. This stays.
Your living QMS lives in the system your team uses every day. The capability does not walk out the door, and your controlled document history is yours to keep.
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30 minutes · Tue to Thu · free 2-seat pilot for qualified teams