# AvISO Consultancy

- **Type:** Advisory firm
- **Website:** https://www.avisoconsultancy.co.uk
- **Assessed by:** The Assurance Desk (Add-Venture Advisory Ltd)

A UK consultancy that mainly helps firms gain ISO, SOC and TISAX certification. It also offers data protection officer services and sells its own ISOvA software.

## AvISO Consultancy scores

Scored 1 to 5 on six criteria. There is no overall score.

### Help when things go wrong: 2/5

The DPO service states the firm will act as an ICO contact point, but no documented ICO engagement, breach case or outcome is published

### Qualifications of the people who do the work: 2/5

The team page names credentials for 16+ staff, but only two hold privacy/legal-specific qualifications; the rest are quality/H&S/environmental auditors, so privacy expertise is not firm-wide

### What it publishes about fees: 1/5

No fee figures or rate card are published anywhere on the DPO or data protection pages checked

### Knowledge of your sector: 3/5

Dedicated sector pages exist for professional services and the security sector, but sector content is thin relative to the firm's core ISO-generalist positioning

### Independence from what it sells: 2/5

The firm's own blog post markets its ISOvA software as paired with consultancy advice, without a stated separation between advisory recommendations and its own product

### Who carries the risk if the advice is wrong: 1/5

No professional indemnity insurance or liability terms are disclosed on the pages reviewed

## Sources for AvISO Consultancy

Every line carries the page it was read on and the date it was checked.

- Companies House registration
  - Source: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08246476
  - Checked: 2026-07-17
- DPO service scope
  - Source: https://www.avisoconsultancy.co.uk/data-protection-officer-dpo
  - Checked: 2026-07-17
- Pricing disclosure
  - Source: https://www.avisoconsultancy.co.uk/data-protection-officer-dpo
  - Checked: 2026-07-17
- Team credentials
  - Source: https://www.avisoconsultancy.co.uk/the-aviso-team
  - Checked: 2026-07-17
- Own software product paired with advice
  - Source: https://www.avisoconsultancy.co.uk/posts/why-aviso-consultancy-and-isova-software
  - Checked: 2026-07-17

## What this provider publishes

Not published means we did not find it on the firm's own pages.

- Price: Not published
- Indemnity cover: Not published
- Credentials: Published
- Independent accreditation: Published
- Client results: Published
- How it uses AI: Not published

## Strengths

- Holds ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 42001 (AI management systems) certification itself, and states it was the first consultancy of its type to achieve ISO 42001 certification
- One named team member (Eithne Gallagher) is a solicitor holding an EU GDPR Foundation and Practitioner certificate, giving at least one legally-qualified privacy resource
- Publishes a large, individually named consultant roster rather than an anonymous team

## Things to check

Each one carries the factual basis it rests on.

- AvISO promotes its own ISOvA software platform alongside its consultancy advice without a separate independence disclosure
  - Basis: The firm's own blog post 'Why AvISO Consultancy and ISOvA Software' describes the two as a paired offering, 'merging seasoned consultancy with state-of-the-art software'
- Of the 16+ named consultants listed on the team page, only two hold data-protection-specific or legal qualifications; the rest are health, safety, quality and environmental lead auditors
  - Basis: AvISO's own team page credentials each consultant, and the majority list NEBOSH/IOSH/ISO 9001/14001/45001 lead-auditor qualifications rather than privacy credentials
- No pricing information is published for DPO or data protection advisory services
  - Basis: The DPO service page describes scope of work but no fees, rate card or pricing examples

## Where this firm appears

- [Do you need a data protection officer?](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/first-appointment)
- [Can the firm that prepares you also certify you?](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/certification-seeking)
- [Does the EU AI Act apply to a UK firm?](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/eu-ai-act-exposed)
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**Scope.** The Assurance Desk covers data protection, AI governance and cyber security in the United Kingdom and the United States. It scores providers in both: UK-facing firms, and firms based in the United States. Every provider scored so far was selected for data-protection, AI-governance or security-assurance work. Where a page describes law, it names the country that law applies in.

**Who publishes this.** The Assurance Desk is published by Add-Venture Advisory Ltd, company number 11854524, registered in England and Wales. The same owner runs Avouch, a marketing agency that sells AI visibility services to firms of the kind this site covers. That is a conflict of interest, and it is disclosed here.

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