AIUC-1 E006 — Conduct vendor due diligence (E. Accountability)
Assess foundation-model and upstream AI providers on their data handling, security and compliance posture before engaging them, and record the decision.
Where this comes from
Provision: E006 — Conduct vendor due diligence (E. Accountability)
Instrument: AIUC-1 — AI agent certification standard (Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company)
Citation: AIUC-1, requirement E006 (E. Accountability) — mandatory, preventative control, assessed every 12 months. Not law: AIUC-1 is a voluntary certification standard, not a binding instrument.
Text version: AIUC-1 as published at aiuc-1.com (quarterly releases; no public version number)
Checked against the source: 4 September 2026
Who it applies to
It applies when all of these are true:
- Service deploys AI systems in a professional capacity
What engineering work it implies
Sample acceptance criteria Landfall generates for this obligation:
- Assessment covers data flows, the risks to the affected group, and likelihood/severity
- Each identified risk has a mitigation mapped to a concrete control or backlog item
- The assessment is dated, has named sign-off, and is scheduled for review
- The assessment is retrievable for regulators on request
- Test: a full walkthrough of the process completes end-to-end
Questions people ask
- Does AIUC-1 E006 — Conduct vendor due diligence (E. Accountability) apply to my service?
- It applies when Service deploys AI systems in a professional capacity.
- From when does this apply?
- AIUC-1 E006 — Conduct vendor due diligence (E. Accountability) applies from 1 July 2025. Its current status is: in force.
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