Accredited like the giants,
run like a builder.
Most certification companies were founded when fax machines still mattered. We weren't. Proks Certification GmbH was established in Düsseldorf in 2018 - built for the way modern organizations actually work. Behind that founding date sits 25 years of audit experience inside our team.
2018
In Düsseldorf, Germany
DAkkS
D-ZM-21201-01-00
IAF MLA signatory
VALID in over 100 countries
European Union
Your evidence never leaves EU soil
Years of audit experience in the team
Languages spoken
Countries recognize our certificates
Certification audits so far
A new generation of certification
body - born in Germany,
built for the world.
HYBRID BY DEFAULT
TRANSPARENT PRICING
MODERN TOOLING
EUROPEAN JURISDICTION
Proks Certification GmbH is a German company, headquartered in Düsseldorf and accredited by DAkkS - Germany's national accreditation body and a full IAF MLA signatory. We operate under European jurisdiction. Our auditors are European. Our infrastructure is European.
We started in 2018 with a small team carrying 25 years of combined audit experience and a single conviction: the certification industry needed a new operating model. Hybrid by default. Transparent on pricing. Modern on tools. Honest on the things that should never be vague.
Today, Proks operates from Düsseldorf with a team of auditors, coordinators and engineers who share one belief: the audit experience matters as much as the certificate.
Every audit runs on infrastructure designed for DSGVO/GDPR from day one. We didn’t translate American policies into German law - we built ours in Germany, with data-protection as a default, not an afterthought.
Every document, screenshot and audit record you share is stored, processed and accessed exclusively within the European Union. No transatlantic flows, no adequacy decisions to worry about.
German jurisdiction. European law. The clarity that comes from working with a partner whose entire operation answers to the same rules your customers ask about.
The certification industry has a problem nobody inside it admits.
Audits feel like trials - paperwork dressed up as expertise. We built Proks to break that pattern without breaking the rules. Five things make us different.
DAkkS-accredited and recognised in 100+ countries through the IAF MLA. Same credibility as the giants - a faster process.
Behind a 2018 founding date sits 25+ years of audit experience inside the team. The institutional memory of a global firm with the speed of a startup.
Hybrid audits. Transparent pricing. One coordinator end-to-end. And a client portal that doesn’t make you cry.
GDPR-compliant by architecture, EU-resident data, German legal framework. No cross-border surprises buried in the fine print.
We believe an audit can be rigorous and enjoyable. Strict on standards, light on stress - and we’ve made it our job to prove it.
The one most certification bodies are afraid to make.
Within the non-negotiable boundaries of impartiality, we have one ambition the industry seems to have forgotten: an audit can be both rigorous and human. Independence isn't optional - and neither is personality.
Impartial & independent
We never consult on what we audit, never blur the line, never let a relationship cloud a finding. That isn’t a tagline - it’s accreditation law.
Strict on standards
Independence isn’t optional. We hold ourselves to the same bar we hold our clients to, and DAkkS audits us every year to prove it.
Light on stress
We use plain language, we treat audit day as a working session, not a tribunal. Audit days at Proks tend to end with handshakes, not headaches.
The Proks Standard
We believe certification should add value to your business, not just paperwork to your desk.
We respect your time. By digitising the audit workflow we significantly reduce administrative overhead and accelerate your timeline to certification.
No black boxes. With our client portal you have real-time visibility into your audit status, non-conformities and reports at every stage of the lifecycle.
Our auditor network consists of highly qualified, industry-specific experts vetted for their technical knowledge and practical approach.
The team behind the certificate
People are at the heart of everything at Proks, supporting its work with professionalism and care.
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Alper Öztürk
Alper founded Proks on a simple bet: that a DAkkS-accredited body could feel less like an institution and more like a partner. The person ultimately accountable for every Proks decision and he shows up in client kickoff calls more often than most CEOs would.
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Sorina Marin
If a Proks audit runs on time, ships on time and never asks you for the same document twice, Sorina is the reason. She runs the engine that turns a booked audit into a delivered certificate. Calm under pressure, allergic to lost emails. You’ll meet her at your kickoff.
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Erim Kızılöz
Gives you real numbers when you ask what something actually costs, usually in his first reply. No mystery quotes, no “let me get back to you on price.”
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Atilla Yeteroğlu
Usually the first person you’ll talk to at Proks and the one you’ll still be talking to three years later. He maps your certification roadmap to your actual business goals.
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İmren Genç
Leads our ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO/IEC 42001:2023 engagements with years of hands-on security experience. The auditor your CISO secretly wants to impress: technical depth without theatrical complexity.
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Arthur Almeida
Our internal conscience on everything data-related. When we say your data never leaves the EU, Arthur is the person whose job it is to make that statement true.
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Gökçenur Bilgin
Lives in the operational details others overlook. Turns a completed audit into a clean, complete, verifiable file from evidence intake to certificate issuance.
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Would you like to join our team?
Check our open positions here!
We meet your stack where it already lives
Modern companies don’t run on paper - and neither do we. Proks plugs into the GRC, cloud and collaboration tools you use every day, so audits move faster, evidence flows automatically, and a cloud-native business gets assessed the way it actually operates.
Audit OS
Collaboration
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