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EU AI Act

The EU AI Act Is Here: What High-Risk AI Deployers Must Do Before August 2026

The EU AI Act's high-risk obligations are live and enforceable. Most AI teams deploying into HR, credit, and customer decisions have months to get compliant — and most don't know where to start. Here's the definitive checklist.

EU AI Act

EU AI Act Enforcement Timeline: What August 2026 Actually Means

EU AI Act Regulation 2024/1689 applies in phases. Prohibited practices and GPAI obligations are already live. High-risk AI system obligations apply from 2 August 2026. Here is the full timeline and what is already enforceable.

EU AI Act

Is My Company EU AI Act Compliant? How to Check in 2026

A plain-language guide to understanding the EU AI Act, what Articles 5, 6, and 9 require, how to classify your AI system, and how to check if your company is compliant before the August 2026 deadline.

EU AI Act

EU AI Act Article 9: What a Risk Management System Actually Requires

Article 9 requires a continuous risk management system, not a static document. Learn exactly what the four components are and where most teams fall short.

EU AI Act

GPAI vs High-Risk AI: What Is the Difference Under EU AI Act?

The EU AI Act creates separate regulatory tracks for General-Purpose AI models and high-risk AI systems. Learn the definitions, the obligations each carries, and how a single product can trigger both tracks simultaneously.

EU AI Act

EU AI Act Provider vs Deployer: What SaaS Companies Must Understand

The EU AI Act creates different obligations for providers and deployers of high-risk AI. Most SaaS companies are both. Learn what each role means, where obligations overlap, and how Article 25 reclassifies deployers as providers.

EU AI Act

How to Write EU AI Act Technical Documentation: Annex IV Guide

Annex IV specifies eight sections of technical documentation that high-risk AI providers must prepare and maintain. Learn what each section requires and how to keep documentation current through model changes.

EU AI Act

Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment (FRIA): EU AI Act Article 27 Explained

Article 27 requires certain deployers to conduct a Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment before deployment. Learn who must do it, what it covers, and how it differs from a GDPR DPIA.

SMEs

How the EU AI Act Is Stifling SME Innovation — And What We're Doing About It

The EU AI Act imposes compliance costs of up to €400,000 per AI system on SMEs. Regulatory red tape is threatening European AI innovation — and Vigilens makes it fast, affordable, and automated.

Engineering

Why AI Compliance Needs to Run Like CI/CD: Rules-as-Code Explained

Your code has unit tests. Your infrastructure has Terraform. But your AI governance still runs on Word documents and annual audits. Rules-as-Code changes that — and it changes everything about how compliance works.

Engineering

GitHub Best Practices for EU AI Act Compliance Evidence

How to structure GitHub pull requests, branches, commits, code reviews, and Actions to generate EU AI Act compliance evidence automatically. Covers Articles 9, 12, and 14.

Engineering

Confluence and Jira Best Practices for EU AI Act Technical Documentation

How to structure Confluence spaces and Jira projects to maintain EU AI Act Annex IV technical documentation continuously — with space structure, page templates, label conventions, and the evidence chain.

Engineering

MLflow and Datadog Best Practices for EU AI Act Logging and Monitoring

How to configure MLflow experiment tracking and Datadog monitoring to generate EU AI Act Article 12 logging evidence and Article 72 post-market monitoring records.

Sales & GTM

The $2M Enterprise Deal Your Governance Gap Is Killing

AI startups are losing enterprise contracts not because of the product — but because they can't produce verifiable proof their AI is safe, auditable, and in compliance. Here's how to fix it.

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