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 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- The vendor's black box: forcing provenance answers from a supplier who has none · Poison, Leaks, and the Adversary, AI Data Governance: The Data Chair
- The vendor interrogation: questions that expose what the sales deck hides · Shipping AI and Surviving the Incident, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
- Contractual Risk Allocation with AI Vendors · Regulatory Interplay and Liability, EU AI Act Implementation Expert
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.