Practical guidance on EU AI Act compliance for businesses with customer-facing AI systems.
The EU AI Act defines AI models and AI systems separately, with different obligations attached to each. Article 3 and Recital 97 are where the line falls, and where most companies misread it.
Read more →If your AI helped decide something that significantly affects a person, Article 86 lets them ask you — the deployer — for a clear explanation. How it works, who it falls on, and how it differs from GDPR.
Read more →If you build a high-risk AI system outside the EU and sell it in, you must appoint an EU authorised representative before the system goes on the market. They are more than a mailbox. They can end the mandate and report you.
Read more →Article 15 makes you commit accuracy thresholds to writing, then expects the system to keep hitting them. It also names the cybersecurity attack classes your system has to resist.
Read more →Article 13 requires high-risk AI systems to be designed so deployers can actually understand them. The instructions for use are only one piece of that obligation.
Read more →After the April trilogue collapsed, negotiators returned and struck a deal. The Annex III high-risk deadline officially moves from 2 August 2026 to 2 December 2027.
Read more →Article 11 turns your technical documentation into a regulated deliverable. It has to be drawn up before launch, kept current as the system evolves, and ready to hand to an inspector on demand.
Read more →Article 10 turns dataset preparation into documented engineering. The deliverable is an audit-survivable record of the data's purpose, source, examination, and processing.
Read more →Superseded — the May 2026 trilogue later reached a deal moving the Annex III high-risk deadline to 2 December 2027. This is the 6 May analysis from when the April talks had collapsed and 2 August 2026 still stood.
Read more →Article 50 is the article most teams think they can ship in an afternoon. Add an 'AI' badge to the chatbot, done. That just covers the first paragraph.
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