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Deployment Safety Assessment

Apply for the PAI Production Safe Mark

An independent assessment of your AI systems against the PAI Production Safety Framework. Transparent criteria, named assessors, public verification record.

Standard assessment timeline (15 business days)

Day 1–2
Application reviewed, scoping call scheduled
Day 3
Scoping call — agree scope, timeline, evidence
Day 4–7
Self-service workflow mapping using PAI Workflow Studio
Day 8
Evidence submission deadline
Day 9–13
Assessor review period (5 business days)
Day 14–15
Report delivered. Mark issued on pass.

Pass threshold

Each domain is scored 0–5. To pass, you need ≥3.0 on PSF-1 through PSF-6, and ≥2.0 on PSF-7 and PSF-8. No domain may score 0.

PSF-1Input Governance≥3.0/5.0
Prompt injection controls, input validation, rate limiting
PSF-2Output Safety≥3.0/5.0
Output validation, PII detection, hallucination controls
PSF-3Observability≥3.0/5.0
Quality monitoring, alerting, drift detection
PSF-4Access Control≥3.0/5.0
Least privilege, key management, tenant isolation
PSF-5Human Oversight≥3.0/5.0
Kill switches, confidence thresholds, review queues
PSF-6Data Governance≥3.0/5.0
Retention policies, consent, deletion capability
PSF-7Incident Response≥2.0/5.0
Runbooks, post-mortems, escalation paths
PSF-8Vendor Resilience≥2.0/5.0
Fallback providers, deprecation planning, SLA review

What evidence to prepare

Technical evidence

  • ✓PAI Workflow Studio workflow maps of in-scope AI systems
  • ✓Monitoring dashboard screenshots (redact PII)
  • ✓Input validation / output safety code or config
  • ✓Access control and API key management docs
  • ✓Data retention and deletion capability evidence

Process evidence

  • ✓Incident response runbooks (AI-specific)
  • ✓Post-incident review examples (if any)
  • ✓Human oversight / review queue documentation
  • ✓Vendor SLA review and fallback planning
  • ✓Consent and data handling policy excerpts
No payment until assessment is scheduled and scope is agreed.