Below are the Essentials: the documents you use to build your ISO 9001 quality management system one piece at a time. Start with the Gap Analysis, a self-assessment you fill in yourself that quickly shows how far your business is from meeting the standard. From there, pick the templates you need, one or several, and each one you use becomes another working part of your system. Or, if you would rather not build it piece by piece, buy the complete pack and get the whole system in one go.