SAFE Labs | Verification Readiness
Know Where You Stand Before Independent Verification Begins
The SAFE Verification Readiness Programme gives organisations building or operating AI that affects children a clear, expert-reviewed view of their current safeguarding position, evidence gaps, priority actions, and pathway toward future independent verification.
AI-assisted analysis. Qualified human review. Clear, evidence-based actions.
This is a preparation programme. It is not verification, certification, endorsement, or a guarantee of a future SAFE Labs outcome.
Readiness Pathway
Illustrative. Final graphic to follow.
The Questions Are Already Being Asked
Boards, investors, regulators, procurement teams, insurers, and commercial partners increasingly expect organisations to explain how AI-related risks to children are being governed and evidenced.
Regulatory Expectations
AI, online-safety, privacy, consumer-protection, and child-safeguarding obligations are evolving rapidly across jurisdictions.
Board and Investor Scrutiny
Leadership teams are being asked to show who is accountable, what controls exist, and whether those controls can be demonstrated.
Incident Exposure
A safeguarding failure can create significant legal, regulatory, operational, and reputational consequences.
Evidence Takes Time
Organisations that begin building a structured evidence record now are better prepared than those reacting later.
Preparation Before Verification
The Verification Readiness Programme sits between an organisation’s current position and the point at which it decides to enter SAFE Labs independent verification. It provides a structured current-state diagnostic, evidence review, gap analysis, and practical improvement roadmap.
The Programme Is
- A structured preparation programme
- A current-state diagnostic
- An evidence-mapping framework
- A safeguarding gap review
- Preparation for independent verification
- A repeatable and structured methodology
The Programme Is Not
- ×Verification or certification
- ×A pass-or-fail test
- ×An endorsement or approval
- ×A substitute for independent verification
- ×A prediction of a future result
- ×An informal consulting opinion
The purpose is improvement, not judgment.
Five Questions Every Organisation Needs to Answer
Where are we today?
What are our most important safeguarding risks?
What evidence do we already have?
What evidence is missing?
What should we do next?
The programme is designed to give leadership, product, legal, risk, governance, and trust-and-safety teams clear answers they can act on.
A Complete View Across Five Domains
Governance
Accountability, leadership oversight, policies, ownership, and board-level visibility.
Safeguarding Architecture
The protections designed into the AI system, including age-related controls, content safety, escalation pathways, parental controls, and responses to vulnerable users.
Risk Management
How risks to children are identified, tested, monitored, escalated, and managed as the AI system changes.
Evidence Readiness
Whether the organisation can demonstrate what it does through documentation, records, audit trails, testing evidence, and retained decision history.
Regulatory Compliance
The obligations that may apply across the organisation’s operating jurisdictions and its current compliance posture.
Maturity Characterisation
Each domain receives a maturity characterisation rather than a simplistic composite score.
A Clear Path From Intake to Action
Six steps from application through to acting on your findings.
Apply for the Programme
Tell SAFE about your organisation, AI system, objectives, timing, and likely programme needs.
Scope Confirmation
SAFE reviews the application and confirms the appropriate programme tier, scope, and final price.
Detailed Programme Intake
Once the engagement is confirmed, the organisation completes the detailed intake questionnaire and submits relevant documentation.
Structured Analysis and Review
Submitted materials are analysed across the five programme domains and validated by a qualified reviewer.
Receive the Readiness Report
The organisation receives its findings, evidence gap register, priority actions, and readiness determination.
Begin Improving
The organisation works through the recommended actions and decides when it is ready to consider future SAFE Labs verification.
A Practical Report Built for Action
The report is designed to be useful across the boardroom, executive team, legal and risk functions, product teams, trust and safety teams, and technical leadership.
Report Preview
Illustrative layout. Final report visual to follow.
A Clear View of How Much Work Remains
Significant Development Required
Material gaps exist across multiple domains. The organisation should address the Priority Actions before entering independent verification.
Approaching Readiness
Meaningful safeguarding foundations are in place, but focused improvement and evidence development are still required.
Readiness Viable
The organisation has a strong current position, with remaining work primarily involving evidence formalisation and targeted improvement.
These determinations describe readiness to enter a future verification process. They do not determine or predict the outcome of SAFE Labs independent verification.
AI-Assisted. Human-Reviewed.
Technology is used to accelerate document classification, evidence mapping, cross-domain analysis, and structured draft findings. Qualified reviewers remain responsible for professional judgment.
AI Assists With
- Document classification
- Evidence indexing
- Domain mapping
- Consistency checks
- Gap identification
- Draft finding preparation
Qualified Reviewers
- Validate material findings
- Confirm critical risks
- Confirm domain maturity characterisations
- Write the Executive Summary
- Finalise Priority Actions
- Issue the readiness determination
- Conduct the client debrief
- Approve the report
No report leaves SAFE without qualified human review.
Choose the Programme That Matches Your Organisation
Every engagement is scoped according to the organisation, AI system, operating jurisdictions, available evidence, and level of complexity. The prices below indicate the starting point for each programme tier.
Essential
Starting from US$12,000
Early-stage organisations, a single AI product, limited documentation, or a first structured assessment.
- Full Verification Readiness Programme
- Assessment across all five domains
- Readiness Report
- Evidence Inventory
- Evidence Gap Register
- Priority Actions
- Readiness determination
- 60-minute reviewer debrief
Standard
Starting from US$18,000
Growth-stage organisations, multiple AI features or user cohorts, and organisations with existing governance, risk, or safeguarding documentation.
- Everything included in Essential
- Expanded regulatory exposure analysis
- Broader evidence review
- Additional consideration of operating jurisdictions and user cohorts
- 60-minute reviewer debrief
Enterprise
Starting from US$28,000
Large platforms, complex AI systems, multiple products, multiple jurisdictions, group-wide reviews, or enterprise procurement.
- Custom programme scope
- Multiple AI products or systems where agreed
- Two qualified reviewers where required
- Expanded jurisdictional analysis
- 90-minute reviewer debrief
- Dedicated programme contact
- Enterprise onboarding support
Not sure which programme applies? Complete the initial application and SAFE will recommend the most appropriate scope before any commitment is made.
Prices are shown in United States dollars and represent starting prices only. Final pricing is confirmed after SAFE reviews the organisation’s scope, AI system, operating jurisdictions, evidence volume, complexity, and requested timeframe. Applicable taxes may be added.
Is This Programme Right for Your Organisation?
The programme may be appropriate where:
- An AI system is designed for children.
- Children are likely to use the system, even if they are not the primary audience.
- The system materially affects children.
- The organisation is preparing for board, investor, insurer, procurement, or regulatory scrutiny.
- Existing safeguarding claims need to be supported by evidence.
- The organisation wants a structured improvement pathway before independent verification.
- The organisation operates across multiple regulatory jurisdictions.
- The organisation wants to prepare before an incident or formal review occurs.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. The Verification Readiness Programme is a preparation programme. It helps an organisation understand its current position and prepare for a future independent process. It is not verification, certification, endorsement, or approval.
Start Building Your Verification Readiness
Understand your current position, identify the evidence and safeguarding gaps that matter most, and establish a clear pathway toward future independent verification.
Submitting an application does not commit your organisation to purchase.
Application
Apply for the Programme
This short application takes approximately 8–12 minutes. Fields marked with * are required.
1. Contact
2. Organisation
3. AI System
4. Current Position
5. Objectives