AI Assurance DirectoryAbout AI Assurance Directory
Which AI assurance tools actually help you certify — with the cited evidence. Written by a practitioner for safety-critical and regulated manufacturing, with aerospace and defense as the flagship, not as a generic software catalog.
Who writes this
The founder has more than 25 years in aerospace and defense engineering and program leadership, holds aerospace engineering degrees, and works in AI governance. This page does not name employers. The directory is operated by Sparky Group LLC.
That background is why listings are organized around the requirements a certifying or contracting team has to answer to — DO-178C, ARP4754B, EASA learning assurance, DoD RAI, CMMC, NIST AI RMF, ISO 26262, IEC 62304, IEC 61508, IEC 61511 — and why every claim links to an official or vendor page a reviewer can open. Editorial judgment is labeled as an analyst assessment, not a vendor claim.
Why it exists
Generic AI tool lists rank products by popularity, funding or blog categories. They rarely say which requirement a tool answers. General AI-governance directories mostly cover enterprise platforms and the EU AI Act or NIST frameworks. Teams under FAA or EASA oversight, DoD or UK MOD contracts, or safety standards need the other stack: AI safety assurance for aircraft, DO-178C and DO-330 with machine learning, SAE G-34, CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 for AI that handles controlled information, DoD Responsible AI, UK MOD JSP 936, NATO's Principles of Responsible Use, ISO/IEC 23894, ISO/IEC TR 5469 and UL 4600. This site is built to cover that gap, with sources a reader can check.
What is here
- Tool directory, filterable by framework and industry, every entry with a cited source.
- Framework explainers citing official sources.
- Industry pages for aerospace, defense, automotive, medical devices, industrial machinery, process industries, space systems and safety-critical work.
- A free AI assurance readiness self-check (18 cited questions), a vendor-neutral RFP question bank (public teasers; full questions Pro), per-listing evidence packs (Pro), and a monthly briefing of cited public source changes (topic names public; dated sentences Pro).
- Printable checklists of cited audit-evidence and CMMC + AI items, plus a one-page checklist for each Path.
- Articles where each factual claim links to a public source, including buyer-intent pages such as qualifying an ML tool under DO-330 and CMMC and AI tools handling CUI, and a glossary of those terms as individual anchors.
- Updates, a What changed this month digest generated from that log, and an RSS feed.
- Compare two to four listings from cited data. Quoted evidence is Pro. A sample listing and the NIST AI RMF buyer kit are free Sample Pro unlocks.
- Pricing — public summaries stay free; evidence, comparisons, exports and alerts are Pro. Team and Enterprise covers seats, invoicing and the security-questionnaire contact.
- Suggest a tool (placeholder), the listing policy, and the sponsor media kit (no traffic numbers or prices).
Status
The newsletter and sponsorship are placeholders and are not live. See the methodology for how we verify.
U.S. federal terminology
Where this site speaks in its own voice about current U.S. federal executive-branch policy, it uses Super Intelligence (SI) and notes that those systems were formerly called artificial intelligence (AI). Official titles of cited documents, standards, frameworks, and sources stay exactly as published. Official names of statutes, regulations, historical documents, and non-federal standards stay exactly as published. The cited explainer is Executive Order 14434: Super Intelligence (SI) terminology for aerospace and defense teams.
Questions
Who writes this directory?
The founder has more than 25 years in aerospace and defense engineering and program leadership, holds aerospace engineering degrees, and works in AI governance. This page does not name employers. Copy is informational and is not professional, engineering, certification or legal advice.
Why does this site say Super Intelligence (SI) on some U.S. federal pages and AI on others?
Executive Order 14434 (29 September 2026) directs the U.S. executive branch, to the maximum extent permitted by law, to use Super Intelligence and SI — formerly called Artificial Intelligence and AI — in new non-statutory documents. Official titles of cited documents, standards, and sources stay exactly as published. Official names of statutes, regulations, historical documents, and non-federal standards stay as published.
Operator
The site is operated by Sparky Group LLC. Billing, privacy and cancellation questions: [email protected]. Public terms: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, refund and cancellation, and subscription terms.
Independence and disclaimer
The content on this site is informational only. It is not professional, engineering, certification or legal advice, and it should not be relied on as such.
Listings are not endorsements. Vendors are described using their own public pages.