# A.6.2.7 AI system technical documentation

Decide what technical documentation each relevant category of interested party (such as users, partners and supervisory authorities) needs, and provide it in a suitable form. The artefact behind the answer is documentation needs analysis per interested party category. For ai system technical documentation the evidence sits at the gate it belongs to.

- Framework: ISO/IEC 42001:2023
- Cited to: ISO/IEC 42001:2023, Annex A control A.6.2.7
- Source: https://www.iso.org/standard/81230.html
- Last updated: 2026-10-20

## What it asks

Decide what technical documentation each relevant category of interested party (such as users, partners and supervisory authorities) needs, and provide it in a suitable form.

## Where generative AI changes the answer

Technical documentation has to be usable by someone who was not on the project, which means it cannot live only in the team's chat history.

## Who it binds

The AI system owner and the delivery team at each life cycle gate.

## Evidence an auditor samples

- Documentation needs analysis per interested party category
- Technical documentation: description and intended purpose, usage instructions, deployment assumptions, technical limitations, monitoring functions
- Life cycle documentation and operational documentation (failure management, health monitoring, operating procedures, responsible roles, updates)
- Management approval and currency of documentation

## The test you can run

Ask for the verification record and the deployment decision, and check that the second refers to the first.

## Common failures

- Regulators or partners given no technical documentation
- Documentation out of date after system changes
- No rollback or failure management plan documented

## Before the draft publishes

Walk the use through the life cycle gates and record which gate has no evidence behind it. That gap is what an auditor will ask about first.

## What this page does not say

It does not state the text of ISO/IEC DTS 25568, because ISO has not published the draft's clause text. It does not certify anything.

Not legal advice; does not certify.