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Module · Deadlines are not a strategy
The EU AI Act Compliance Check
The AI Act regulates use cases, not tools, and its duties arrive in stages through 2027. This module checks the five load-bearing pieces: risk classification, high-risk duties, the literacy obligation, your provider-versus-deployer roles, and whether anyone owns the work.
What the five levels look like
Every dimension in this assessment is scored 1 to 5. This is what the levels mean, dimension by dimension. The graded report diagnoses where your own answers land and what to do about it.
Use cases classified
- 1Not started
- 2Know the classes
- 3Partially classified
- 4Fully classified
- 5Classified + process
At the low end: Without classification you cannot know what the law requires of you. A one-day workshop over your AI inventory gets you to a first map. What good looks like: A living classification with a process for new use cases is exactly what the Act assumes. Keep it wired into procurement and deployment reviews.
High-risk duties implemented
- 1None
- 2Duties identified
- 3Implementation planned
- 4Partially implemented
- 5Fully implemented
At the low end: If a high-risk use case runs live without its duties, you accumulate liability daily. Either implement, or switch the use case off until you can. What good looks like: Full implementation puts you ahead of most of the market. Turn it into an asset: audited AI is a sales argument with enterprise customers.
AI literacy trained
- 1No training
- 2Ad hoc self-study
- 3Training planned
- 4Rolled out broadly
- 5Role-specific, refreshed
At the low end: The literacy duty already applies. A pragmatic start: one half-day for everyone, one deeper track for people with oversight roles. What good looks like: Role-specific, refreshed training is the standard the Act imagines. Keep records; literacy is the duty auditors can check fastest.
Provider vs deployer mapped
- 1Never considered
- 2Unsure for most
- 3Partially mapped
- 4Fully mapped
- 5Mapped + contracts
At the low end: Role confusion means you either over-comply at cost or under-comply at risk. Map your top five use cases first; the pattern usually repeats. What good looks like: Mapped roles with adjusted contracts is the mature end state. Revisit on every new AI purchase; vendors love shifting duties downstream.
Compliance has an owner
- 1Nobody owns it
- 2Legal, ad hoc
- 3Named, no budget
- 4Named with budget
- 5Integrated system
At the low end: Unowned compliance work does not happen; it accumulates. Name one person this quarter, even at 20 percent of their time, with the classification from question 1 as their mandate. What good looks like: Integrated ownership turns the Act from a project into an operating property. Your job now is keeping evidence fresh, not building from zero.