The EU AI Act enforcement deadline is August 2, 2026. That sounds far off until you realize high-risk AI systems can take three to six months to document properly. Most companies building or deploying AI right now are already behind, and many don’t even know which risk tier they fall into. The fines are not symbolic: violations can reach €35 million or 7% of global turnover, whichever is higher.
ActComply is a tool built specifically for this problem. You describe your AI system in plain English, and it classifies the risk level under the EU AI Act, maps every applicable compliance obligation to the correct article, and generates the documentation templates you’d otherwise pay a lawyer thousands of euros to produce. No prior legal knowledge needed.
The builder, Zac, started the project after noticing almost no practical tooling existed for the companies that would actually face enforcement, teams spending thousands on legal advice only to discover their AI system was low-risk anyway. ActComply targets product teams, CTOs, and compliance leads who need a clear answer fast, without retaining outside counsel just to get started.
Key Features of ActComply
Instant Risk Classification with Article References
ActComply places each AI system into one of four tiers defined by the EU AI Act: Prohibited, High-Risk, Limited Risk, or Minimal Risk. It doesn’t just hand you a label. Every classification comes with exact article references from the regulation, so you know precisely which legal obligations apply and why. That specificity matters when regulators come knocking.
Auto-Generated Technical Documentation
Article 11 technical documentation is one of the most time-consuming requirements for high-risk systems. It covers system descriptions, development processes, validation details, and performance metrics, structured across ten sections aligned to Annex IV. Getting this from a compliance lawyer typically costs €2,000 – €5,000 per system. Here it’s generated automatically as part of the assessment output, with version history so you can track changes over time.
GDPR DPIA and Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment
High-risk AI systems that process personal data usually need both a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) under GDPR and a Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment (FRIA) under Article 27 of the EU AI Act. Law firms typically charge €3,000–€8,000 to produce these. ActComply generates both in a single integrated assessment structured, article-referenced, and ready to share with your legal team or DPA.
Article 9 Risk Management Plan
Article 9 requires a documented, lifecycle risk management process not a one-time exercise. ActComply generates a full risk register with probability and severity ratings, residual risk scores, change triggers, and testing requirements. There’s also a dedicated flow for flagging model updates, which re-evaluates your risk position in line with Article 9(4).
Article 12 Logging Specification
Article 12 requires high-risk systems to log events automatically for traceability. ActComply generates a full logging specification event types, data captured, storage format, access controls, plus a retention schedule aligned to Article 19 requirements. Hand it straight to your engineering team.
Conformity Assessment Evidence Pack
Business and Enterprise users get a printable, regulator-facing Conformity Assessment Evidence Pack, a structured document covering all required areas including technical design, risk controls, human oversight, and post-market monitoring. It’s the document you give an auditor. Having it generated automatically from your assessment data is a significant time saving.
Prioritised Compliance Roadmap
After classification, you receive a prioritised action plan listing every obligation that applies to your system, sorted by effort level and deadline. The checklist covers risk management (Article 9), data governance (Article 10), human oversight (Article 14), and more. Nothing gets buried.
Ongoing Regulatory Monitoring Alerts
The EU AI Act will evolve. Guidance changes, enforcement interpretations shift, and deadlines get added. ActComply sends regular alerts when regulations update, so you’re not relying on a one-time assessment that goes stale. Starter subscribers get monthly alerts; Business and Enterprise subscribers get weekly monitoring.
How a Fintech CTO Got Unblocked in Twenty Minutes
The following is an illustrative scenario based on typical ActComply use cases.
Marta Kowalski is the CTO of a Warsaw-based fintech that built a credit scoring tool used by lenders across the EU. At 9:15 on a Tuesday morning, she sat down with a coffee and a growing sense of dread: their legal team had flagged the August 2026 deadline, but nobody had actually assessed whether the tool qualified as high-risk under the Act.
She opened ActComply, typed a description of the credit scoring system, selected Financial Services as the sector, and checked the boxes indicating that the system processes personal data, makes autonomous decisions, and directly affects individuals’ access to credit. The whole form took four minutes.
The result came back immediately: High-Risk, citing Annex III Category 5 (essential private services, credit scoring). The output included a full list of applicable articles, a compliance checklist with effort ratings for each obligation, and documentation templates for Article 11 technical documentation. By 9:30, Marta had a clear picture of what needed to happen and a document she could share with the legal team that afternoon. A task that had been sitting on the backlog for weeks got unblocked in under twenty minutes.
How ActComply Classifies Your AI System
Step 1: Describe Your System
Fill in the assessment form with your system’s name, description, purpose, and industry sector. You also flag whether the system processes personal data, makes autonomous decisions, or directly affects individuals. This takes under five minutes per system, and no technical jargon is required.
Step 2: Get Instant Risk Classification
The platform’s classification engine applies the EU AI Act’s four-tier framework and returns a result with exact article references. Prohibited systems are flagged immediately. High-risk systems trigger the full obligation checklist. Limited and minimal risk systems receive lighter, targeted guidance.
Step 3: Receive Your Compliance Roadmap
You get a prioritized action plan, auto-generated documentation across all applicable articles, and access to ongoing regulatory alerts. Business and Enterprise users also get the Conformity Assessment Evidence Pack and an audit trail structured for regulators.
ActComply Pricing
The free tier lets you run one system through the full classification without a card. Three paid tiers are available, with an annual billing option that gives you two months free:
- Starter: €499/month, up to 5 AI systems, full risk classification, compliance checklist, monthly regulatory alerts, and PDF compliance report.
- Business: €1,499/month, unlimited systems, auto-generated technical documentation, conformity assessment templates, weekly regulatory monitoring, EU database registration guidance, and audit trail for regulators.
- Enterprise: €2,999/month, everything in Business plus multi-entity management, custom regulatory monitoring, white-label reports, API access, and dedicated onboarding support.
The documentation alone on the Business plan Article 11 docs, DPIA/FRIA, risk management plans would run €15,000–€25,000 through a specialist law firm. The monthly subscription is a rounding error by comparison.
Who Should Try ActComply Now
If you build or deploy AI that touches EU citizens, you need a classification before August 2026. That’s true whether you’re a solo founder with one product or an enterprise running a fleet of AI tools. ActComply is especially relevant for anyone in HR tech, fintech, healthcare, or edtech, where high-risk classification is most likely to apply. Start with the free assessment at getactcomply.com and find out exactly where you stand.
