Before you start

You need permission to create or manage assessments. Have the supplier’s legal name or registration number available. External data availability depends on configured integrations.

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Keep repeat assessments in the same organisation workspace

Select an existing organisation workspace when the relationship already exists. Create a new workspace only when needed. The fictional Example Trading Ltd option illustrates how separate assessments can share one organisation history.

Step by step

  1. Open the supplier’s existing workspace, or ask AURA Agent to start supplier due diligence.
  2. Search for the supplier by legal name or company number. For UK companies, review the Companies House match where available and select the correct legal entity.
  3. Confirm the assessment objective, scope, owner and timing. Check the registration number before proceeding.
  4. Review the existing evidence and external checks. Request additional evidence for unresolved questions rather than duplicating information already validated.
  5. Progress the review through findings and recommendation, then submit for the accountable decision when ready.
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Choose the purpose before defining scope

Supplier due diligence is selected in this example. Customer, enhanced, security and other external assurance contexts have different purposes. Transaction diligence starts in Deal Room. Internal readiness programmes follow their own route rather than being a supplier assessment.

Separate the organisation from its assessments

The organisation workspace represents the legal entity; each assessment represents a particular objective, period or review. Search the existing organisation and add an assessment where appropriate. Verify legal name, registration number and country. A trading name or a similarly named company is not sufficient identity confirmation.

Work through the assessment context

  1. Read Overview for the next unresolved task and Information for recorded facts.
  2. Check Controls and supporting material against the actual scope. Record unavailable checks and missing documents as gaps.
  3. Inspect Findings and Reasoning, opening sources behind material concerns. Distinguish provider facts from AI interpretation.
  4. Submit a supported recommendation through Decisions or the workflow controls to an authorised approver.

Check readiness before submission

Resolve required answers, evidence decisions and blocking findings, or follow the permitted exception route. Check dates and coverage periods. When supplier information changes after a decision, consider reassessment; preserve the earlier rationale rather than rewriting history.

What happens next

The assessment brings identity, evidence, findings and approval together. Keep outstanding gaps visible and assign follow-up actions.

If something does not look right

A similar trading name is not enough to establish identity. If matches are ambiguous, verify the company number. If a provider cannot return data, keep that check unresolved rather than treating it as passed.