# AI Tester Accreditation Programme (AI TAP)

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Singapore
- **Instrument type**: Policy
- **Status**: Adopted
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: AI Verify Foundation

## In brief

The Singapore AI Tester Accreditation Programme is a non-binding policy of Singapore, issued by AI Verify Foundation. Its current status is adopted. Firms offering AI testing services, and organisations choosing a tester; voluntary. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Summary

Accredits third-party firms that test AI systems, in benchmarking and red teaming, for 12 months at a time; the first five were AIDX Tech, Knovel Engineering, PwC Singapore, Resaro and Vulcan. Accreditation does not certify that a tester is independent or that a tested system is safe.

## Scope

Firms offering AI testing services, and organisations choosing a tester; voluntary.

## Who it applies to

AI testing firms; organisations commissioning AI tests.

## Key dates

Announced 18 May 2026; first accredited testers named October 2026.

## Notes on dates

The first cohort was announced alongside the agentic testing starter kit in October 2026, per press reports.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0243 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0243; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/singapore-ai-tester-accreditation-programme
- **Official source**: https://aiverifyfoundation.sg/ai-assurance/accredited-testers/
- **Source document**: Accredited testers
- **Published by**: AI Verify Foundation
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-21
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "AI Tester Accreditation Programme (AI TAP)" [AIPT-POL-0243, record version 1, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0243 (accessed 21 October 2026).

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