EU AI Act guides
Practical, article-referenced answers for the timeline as it actually stands after the 2026 Omnibus — transparency duties live now, high-risk from December 2027. No signup, no fluff — and when you want your own systems classified, the free assessment takes about 10 minutes.
August 2, 2026 after the Omnibus: what is actually enforceable now
The Omnibus moved high-risk duties to December 2027 — but Article 50 transparency and real enforcement began 2 August 2026. What applies now, what moved.
Read the guide →Updated 3 August 2026Already on the market? Article 111, the loophole the Omnibus left open
The Omnibus moved the high-risk deadline, not the Article 111 cutoff: pre-August-2026 systems may escape the obligations entirely. What to document now.
Read the guide →Updated 3 August 2026The EU AI Act compliance checklist
A practical, article-referenced checklist for EU AI Act compliance: classify every system, map obligations by role and risk tier, and close the gaps in order.
Read the guide →Updated 3 August 2026Is your AI system high-risk? Annex III, explained
The eight Annex III categories that make an AI system high-risk, the Article 6(3) derogation that can take you out of scope, and how to document either answer.
Read the guide →Updated 3 August 2026Annex IV technical documentation: what it is and what goes in it
Annex IV technical documentation, section by section: what every high-risk AI provider must hold before market placement, and how to draft it fast.
Read the guide →Updated 3 August 2026EU AI Act fines: the complete penalty guide
EU AI Act fines: €35M/7% for prohibited practices, €15M/3% for breached obligations, €7.5M/1% for misleading regulators — who fines whom, and since when.
Read the guide →Updated 3 August 2026You don't build AI — you use it. Deployer obligations under Article 26
Buying AI does not transfer compliance. Article 26 duties for companies deploying high-risk AI: oversight, input data, monitoring, logs, notification.
Read the guide →Updated 3 August 2026The FRIA: who must run a fundamental rights impact assessment
Who must run a FRIA under Article 27: public bodies, public-service providers, and credit-scoring or insurance-pricing deployers — before first use.
Read the guide →Updated 3 August 2026GPAI under the AI Act: Articles 53 and 55 for model providers
GPAI provider duties under Articles 53 and 55, in force since August 2025: documentation, downstream info, copyright policy, training-data summaries.
Read the guide →Updated 3 August 2026EU AI Act vs GDPR: two regimes, one system
GDPR asks if you may process the data; the AI Act asks if the system may be used at all. Where the regimes overlap, and what your DPIA will never cover.
Read the guide →Updated 3 August 2026AI in hiring: the EU AI Act rules for recruitment and HR
CV screening and candidate ranking are Annex III high-risk; workplace emotion inference is banned. The employer duty stack, and what to ask your ATS vendor.
Read the guide →Updated 3 August 2026Want the verdict rather than the reasoning?
The guides explain the law. The use-case verdicts run the classification engine over fourteen common systems — CV screening, credit scoring, chatbots, proctoring — and publish what it returns, including the single answers that move each verdict.
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