Audit right
A contractual provision giving one party (typically the buyer) the right to review, inspect, or have an independent assessor review specified records, documentation, or processes of the other party (the vendor) to verify compliance with stated standards. In the EU AI Act context, audit rights over a vendor's technical documentation, quality management system, and conformity assessment records are the principal tool for buyer-side due diligence.
Defined in 3 GAGE programs, which carry 3 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in EU AI Act Implementation Expert.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
A contractual provision giving one party (typically the buyer) the right to review, inspect, or have an independent assessor review specified records, documentation, or processes of the other party (the vendor) to verify compliance with stated standards. In the EU AI Act context, audit rights over a vendor's technical documentation, quality management system, and conformity assessment records are the principal tool for buyer-side due diligence.
A contractual provision allowing the buyer to inspect, or have a third party inspect, a vendor's relevant practices or records; a control only in practice if actually exercised, not merely present in the contract text.
A contractual right for the buyer to test the vendor's system on the buyer's own inputs, on a defined schedule. It keeps the demo honest after signing by letting you re-run reality against the claim.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first module of every program is free with a free account.
- The vendor's black box: forcing provenance answers from a supplier who has none · Poison, Leaks, and the Adversary, Certified AI Data Governance Professional (CADGP)
- The vendor interrogation: questions that expose what the sales deck hides · Shipping AI and Surviving the Incident, Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP)
- Contractual Risk Allocation with AI Vendors · Regulatory Interplay and Liability, EU AI Act Implementation Expert
Where it shows up at work
A definition is where Audit right starts. The lessons above teach it inside the competencies below, which are what job descriptions ask for and what the GAGE credential records. Every link here is drawn from the same careers map that builds a role's readiness check.
Tiers vendors by use and impact, requests evidence instead of promises, tests in the customer's context, and plans monitoring and exit.
3 lessons on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Turns controls into enforceable obligations: data use, change notice, audit rights, incident duties, subcontractors, IP, exit and deletion.
One lesson on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Writes requirements, runs a fair evaluation, pilots within limits, and refuses a demo as evidence.
One lesson on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Roles that hire for it
Each role page shows the full competency set, what the seat decides, and a readiness check against your own evidence.
- AI Vendor Risk Managerneeds it at depth
- Third-Party AI Risk Analystneeds it at depth
- Third-Party Cyber Risk Managerneeds it at depth
- Chief Information Officer, technology leadership editionneeds it at depth
- Chief Audit Executive, AI audit editionneeds working knowledge
- Chief Compliance Officer, AI compliance editionneeds working knowledge
How job descriptions say it
Postings rarely use the textbook word. These are the phrases the careers map reads as asking for the competencies above.
Where the frameworks place it: NIST AI RMF GOVERN 6 and MANAGE 3; ISO/IEC 42001 Annex A supplier controls; GDPR Article 28; EU AI Act value-chain obligations.
One interview question about it
A business unit wants to buy an AI tool next week. What do you ask the vendor, what evidence do you require, and what would make you say no?
Asked of candidates for ai vendor due diligence and third-party risk. Answering it in your own words is exactly how a GAGE topic is passed, and the credential records the pass where an employer can check it.
If you come from another field
Some backgrounds already carry this competency, and the readiness check gives credit for it.
- Privacy and data protection carries it as a claim to back up: Processor and vendor review is routine privacy work.
- Cybersecurity and IT carries it as a claim to back up: Supplier security assessment is routine.
- Nonprofit program and grants oversight carries it as a claim to back up: Reviewing grant and vendor agreements for data terms is vendor review.
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.