within 6 working hours, Guaranteed: How Fig Group's AI-Powered Platform Delivers the UK's Fastest Cyber Essentials Certification

The Basic guarantee: Fig Group issues Cyber Essentials within six working hours of receiving a complete, compliant submission before midday UK time on a UK business day. Purchase, preparation, clarification, remediation and customer response time do not form part of that clock. Three rounds of assessor feedback are included; this is not unlimited certification attempts. A human assessor makes the certification decision. Read the service terms.

Fig Group’s fastest positioning concerns its published qualifying Basic commitment among the named comparable offers, not an independently measured market-wide performance result. The best choice for an urgent applicant depends on readiness, scope and the written deadline.

Structured preparation can flag missing answers or conflicting scope descriptions and help an assessor focus on relevant controls. It cannot establish that a control exists merely because a customer answers yes, waive the scheme requirements or replace the human certification decision.

Fig Group describes its workflow as AI-assisted. Universal review pickup times, instant feedback, zero queues and immediate database registration are not established by this article. A licence record is not runtime performance evidence. Ask about the actual customer workflow where these details matter to your deadline.

A prepared organisation orders early, confirms access to the assessment portal and submits a complete compliant questionnaire before midday UK time on a UK business day. The Basic commitment then applies. If a gap is found, the organisation implements the correction and responds to feedback. Correction time is outside the guarantee, and same-morning issuance is not promised for an unprepared applicant.

These are illustrative steps, not a redacted customer record or a measured technology benchmark. Do not infer an average 3.5-hour end-to-end journey from them.

• Tender applicants: establish the actual requirement and submission deadline before buying.
• New suppliers: agree which certificate and scope the customer will accept.
• Lapsed certificate holders: recertify promptly while recognising that new issuance cannot remove an earlier gap.
• Insurance applicants: respond to the insurer’s exact request; certification does not determine underwriting outcomes.

Read the current IASME Cyber Essentials guidance. The five control themes remain recognisable, but technical requirements have changed over time. A historic pass does not establish current compliance. Evidence must describe the current environment and the applicable question set.

The guarantee is included at the standard Basic price, with three rounds of assessor feedback. The fastest commitment applies to qualifying Basic submissions, not every product: Plus has a prepared-assessment target of 2–3 working days with scheduling, access and remediation dependencies, and one formal retest within 30 days under its terms. DCC has its own scope and assessment arrangements.

Compare written package terms rather than treating all competitors as manual, slow or incapable of same-day work. GRC Solutions publishes a same-day assessment option, and Indelible Data advertises accelerated options; confirm marking versus issuance, cutoff and package eligibility with each provider.

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