Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 Issue №01 · v2026.05
Enforcement begins 2 August 2026

Get EU AI Act-ready in thirty minutes.

If you ship AI to anyone in the EU, you have weeks to produce conformity documentation, Article 50 disclosures, Article 4 literacy training, and a risk classification. Miss the deadline and fines run to €35M or 7% of revenue. This kit costs €49.*

* Article 50(1)-(4), AI Act Regulation (EU) 2024/1689

Pre-order now, kit ships June 15. Full refund if it's not useful.

II.

The standards are late. The deadline holds.

CEN and CENELEC missed the August 2025 deadline to publish harmonised standards. The Commission's Digital Omnibus might push high-risk obligations to December 2027. It might also not. Finland flipped enforcement on in January 2026. Other Member States are next.

In the meantime, every AI product sold into the EU needs a defensible answer to three questions: Are we high-risk under Annex III? Do we meet Article 50 transparency? Have our staff completed AI literacy training under Article 4?

The law firms charging €300/hour to answer those questions are booked solid through July. Vanta-grade tools cost €15-50k/year and were built for compliance teams that don't exist at a 4-person startup.

€35M
Maximum fine per Article 99, or 7% of global turnover, whichever is higher
76 days
Until Article 50 transparency and Annex III obligations are enforceable
€0
Public Commission guidance for SMEs as of May 2026
III.

A dated dossier you can hand to a buyer, partner, or auditor.

Answer thirty questions about your product. The system classifies you under the AI Act and generates seven artifacts, signed with a SHA-256 hash and timestamp. Re-generate any time the regulation changes.

01 / Risk Classification
Annex III assessment
Determines whether your system is prohibited, high-risk, limited-risk under Article 50, or minimal-risk, with reasoning per Annex III category.
→ Art. 6 · Annex III · Art. 5
02 / User-Facing Notices
Article 50 disclosure copy
Chatbot AI-interaction notice, deepfake disclosure, AI-generated content labels, public-interest text disclosure. Copy you paste into your UI.
→ Art. 50(1) to (4)
03 / AI System Card
Annex IV technical documentation
Structured technical file: intended purpose, training data summary, capabilities and limitations, performance metrics, known failure modes.
→ Art. 11 · Annex IV
04 / AI Literacy Training
Article 4 staff primer
Role-specific training modules (engineer, sales, support, ops) you distribute to your team, with attendance log template. Already enforceable since February 2025.
→ Art. 4
05 / FRIA Template
Fundamental rights impact assessment
Pre-filled FRIA based on your product; required for deployers of high-risk systems under Article 27. Flags the rights, mitigations, and oversight you need.
→ Art. 27
06 / Logging & Incident Spec
Article 12, 19, 73
Technical logging requirements, retention windows, and a serious-incident reporting playbook with 72-hour / 15-day notification templates.
→ Art. 12 · 19 · 73
07 / The Dossier
One PDF. Signed, dated, defensible.
Everything above bundled into a single PDF with version hash, generation timestamp, and your product metadata. Hand it to a procurement team, a partner asking "are you AI Act compliant?", or a national authority. Re-export any time the regulation moves.
→ Output: aiactready_[product]_[date].pdf · SHA-256 signature included
IV.

Three steps. Same afternoon.

i
~ 10 minutes
Describe your product
Thirty questions about what your AI does, who uses it, what data it touches, and which EU markets you sell into. Plain English, no legal jargon.
ii
~ 2 minutes
We classify and generate
Our pipeline maps your answers to Annex III categories and Article 50 obligations, then drafts the seven artifacts. You review and adjust.
iii
~ 15 minutes
Export & ship
Download the dossier PDF. Drop the Article 50 notices into your UI. Send the literacy primer to your team. Done before lunch.
V.

One product. €49.

VI.

The questions every founder asks at hour two.

Does the EU AI Act apply to me if I'm not in Europe?

Yes, if the output of your AI system is used by a person in the EU. The Act has GDPR-style extraterritorial reach under Article 2. A US-based SaaS with EU customers, an Indian dev tool with European users, a Singapore agency serving Berlin clients. All in scope.

I'm not building "high-risk AI." Why do I care about August 2?

Article 50 transparency obligations apply to almost everyone shipping generative or interactive AI, not just Annex III high-risk systems. Chatbots, image generators, deepfake tools, AI-written content tools. All need user-facing disclosure on August 2, 2026.

Article 4 AI literacy for staff has been enforceable since February 2, 2025. Most companies haven't done it.

Isn't the Digital Omnibus delaying everything to December 2027?

The Commission has proposed delaying Annex III high-risk obligations, but only for high-risk systems, and only if harmonised standards aren't ready. The proposal is still under negotiation in Parliament and Council as of May 2026. Article 50 transparency and Article 4 literacy are not affected. Prudent compliance teams are treating August 2, 2026 as binding.

Is this legal advice?

No. AIActReady is a software tool that generates structured documentation based on your inputs. The output is a starter dossier. Useful for self-assessment, partner inquiries, and as a working draft for a lawyer to refine. If you operate a high-risk Annex III system in critical infrastructure, biometrics, or law enforcement, get specialist legal counsel as well.

For the 95% of small AI builders who don't operate Annex III systems, this kit is enough to demonstrate good-faith compliance with Article 50 and Article 4. It saves you the €300/hour lawyer for the basics.

How is this different from Vanta, Drata, Trail, or Credo AI?

Those tools are built for compliance teams at companies with 50+ employees, enterprise pricing (€15-50k/year), and procurement cycles. AIActReady is built for founders with a credit card. €49 one-off, output in 30 minutes, no sales call.

What if my product changes? Do I have to re-buy?

No. The Kit license lets you re-generate the dossier for the same product as often as you need. The Monitoring subscription extends this to automatic re-generation when the regulation itself changes. New AI Office guidelines, Code of Practice updates, national supervisor positions, harmonised standards when they finally land.

I'm a deployer (I use someone else's AI), not a provider. Do I still need this?

Yes. Article 26 imposes obligations on deployers of high-risk AI: human oversight, monitoring, logging, and a Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment for many use cases under Article 27. Article 4 literacy applies to every organisation deploying AI, full stop. The Kit covers both provider and deployer pathways.

What's your refund policy?

14-day refund on the Kit, no questions. Cancel monitoring any time, prorated. Pro deals: 30-day refund.

76 days remain

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