Product Focus: The AAIC Compliance Marketplace
Continuous Evidence, Not an Annual Scramble

The Problem: Audits Are Still Screenshots and Self-Attestation

Today, getting audited against a framework like SOC 2, ISO 42001, or the EU AI Act generally looks the same way it has for years: find an auditor, send them a folder of documents and screenshots, wait weeks or months for a response, and hope the evidence you handed over is still accurate by the time they get to it. For AI systems specifically — agents, models, and automated decision pipelines that change behavior week to week — a point-in-time snapshot is often stale before the audit even finishes.

The underlying issue isn't that auditors aren't rigorous. It's that the evidence pipeline between an audited organization and the firm auditing it is built on manual hand-offs: a document gets exported, a screenshot gets taken, a spreadsheet gets filled in by hand. None of that is continuously verifiable, and none of it is the real, live system the auditor is actually trying to assess.

What We Built

The AAIC Compliance Marketplace, live at compliance.runtimeai.io, connects two sides of the same problem directly:

• Audit and certification firms register, get verified, and accept engagements that land in their queue — then review real, scoped, time-limited access to a client's actual RuntimeAI evidence, not a document the client hand-picked and exported.
• RuntimeAI customers open the Audit Marketplace from inside their own dashboard, get matched with a verified firm, and request an audit against a single framework or a multi-framework bundle.

RuntimeAI is explicit about what it is and isn't here: RuntimeAI does not perform or certify audits itself. We are the platform and the marketplace. Your firm is the one performing the audit and issuing the attestation — RuntimeAI's role is making the underlying evidence real, continuous, and directly accessible, instead of something assembled by hand for the occasion.

How It Works

What's Under the Hood

How Audit Firms Get Paid

The marketplace is a flat platform subscription for firms, not a cut of their audit fees — plus two additional ways to grow beyond what lands in their queue organically.

Your firm keeps 100% of whatever you charge for the audit engagement itself. The subscription covers marketplace access and the evidence pipeline — RuntimeAI does not take a cut of your audit fee. Beyond the subscription, two further paths: every RuntimeAI customer who requests a framework or bundle audit through the marketplace is a new engagement that can land in a firm's queue, matched by specialization rather than cold outreach; and firms that refer their own customers into RuntimeAI earn a referral or co-sell fee on what those customers spend, under RuntimeAI's standard partner terms — and can then issue that same customer's certificate on the same platform.

A Three-Way Model for Channel Partners

The referral path above generalizes beyond audit firms themselves. A channel partner's own customer base is often already asking for AI-specific compliance evidence. Rather than a separate conversation, that need can route through the same marketplace relationship: the partner refers its customer in, RuntimeAI provides the evidence pipeline and matches a verified firm, and the audit firm performs the actual audit — with terms across all three parties negotiated as part of the broader partnership. RuntimeAI structures this today with its channel partners.

Watch It Live

The short video below walks the real, live marketplace — the landing page, the frameworks catalog, and firm registration — narrated from this post's own text, not a separate script.