Practical guidance on EU AI Act compliance for businesses with customer-facing AI systems.
Most teams think Article 50 is an afternoon's work — add an 'AI' badge to the chatbot, done. That covers one of four obligations. The machine-readable marking of synthetic content, the 'obvious AI' exception, and what the Commission's draft guidelines now expect. Disclosure applies from 2 August 2026.
Read more →Article 14 of the EU AI Act requires that humans can effectively oversee high-risk AI systems — a design bar, not a staffing one. Why most 'human in the loop' setups fail the effectiveness test, and the four things real oversight needs.
Read more →If your company has up to 750 employees and €150m turnover, the amended EU AI Act now extends most SME compliance breaks to you — capped penalties and lighter documentation. What the small mid-cap carve-out covers, and what it doesn't.
Read more →Article 12 event logging can't be satisfied by a policy document — logs are a property of the running code, and retrofitting them into a system never built to emit them takes a quarter, not a sprint. What 'automatic', 'events' and 'over the lifetime' actually require.
Read more →Compliance platforms promise end-to-end EU AI Act coverage. What they can actually automate, what remains human work, and why the difference matters when the regulator shows up.
Read more →Article 6(3) lets some Annex III systems escape high-risk classification. But the exemption is narrow, the call is yours to make, and getting it wrong reopens every obligation you skipped. The four conditions, the profiling carve-out, and the documentation you still owe.
Read more →Wrap the OpenAI or Claude API in your product and EU law makes you the AI provider — not OpenAI, not Anthropic. What that means, and the 2026–2027 deadlines that now apply.
Read more →The European Parliament voted to push the high-risk AI system deadline from August 2026 to December 2027. Here's what changed, what didn't, and what it means for your compliance timeline.
Read more →Many businesses assume the EU AI Act only applies to AI developers. If you use a third-party AI tool that interacts with EU citizens, you're a deployer with real obligations.
Read more →The 2 August 2026 EU AI Act deadline has moved. After the Digital Omnibus delay, here's what's enforceable now, what's due 2 December 2026, and what shifted to 2 December 2027.
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