Ai Act Ready
AI Act Ready
Track your EU AI Act compliance before the August 2, 2026 enforcement deadline.
Date: 2026-06-06 Form factor: web app Status: Prototype
What it is
AI Act Ready is a lightweight compliance dashboard for small and mid-sized businesses to inventory every AI system they use or provide, classify each by EU AI Act risk tier, and track their readiness against the mandatory August 2, 2026 enforcement deadline. Instead of drowning in legal PDFs, teams get a clear, actionable checklist and an overall compliance score they can share with counsel or auditors.
Who it serves
Operations managers, CTOs, and compliance leads at SMEs that deploy AI tools — CRM scoring, hiring software, chatbots, fraud detection — and need a fast, non-lawyer-friendly way to understand their obligations under the EU AI Act before the penalty window opens.
Why it could be profitable
Monetization model: Freemium B2B SaaS — free for up to 3 AI systems; $99/month (Starter, up to 15 systems) or $299/month (Team, unlimited systems + exportable compliance reports + regulatory-update alerts + team seats).
The August 2, 2026 deadline is immovable: fines reach €35 million or 7% of global annual turnover for high-risk violations. An estimated 500,000+ EU-market-facing SMEs are under-prepared — compliance consultants charge $8,000–$15,000 per engagement, creating a large gap for an affordable self-serve tool. Early adopters from Q1 2026 are already converting to paid as the deadline pressure intensifies.
Sources supporting the demand:
- https://www.legalnodes.com/article/eu-ai-act-2026-updates-compliance-requirements-and-business-risks
- https://axis-intelligence.com/eu-ai-act-news-2026/
Form factor & scope
Single-page web app. This prototype demonstrates the core inventory + classification + checklist flow with a pre-loaded set of 10 fictional AI systems for a mid-sized SaaS company.
How to run it
- Open
index.htmlin any modern browser. - The dashboard loads with sample AI systems pre-populated from
sample-data.jsonvia an inline data block (no server required). - Click any system card to expand its compliance checklist.
- Use the risk-filter tabs to drill into a specific tier.
- Mark checklist items complete to watch the overall score update.
What's in this prototype
- Live countdown to the August 2, 2026 enforcement deadline
- Company-level compliance score gauge (percentage of checks completed)
- AI system inventory cards with risk-tier badges (Prohibited / High-Risk / Limited-Risk / Minimal-Risk)
- Per-system expandable compliance checklist with step completion tracking
- Risk-filter tab bar to view systems by tier
- Summary stats: total systems, systems fully compliant, checks outstanding
Roadmap
- User authentication + persistent data storage (Supabase or Firebase)
- PDF/CSV export of compliance report for legal teams
- Regulatory-update push alerts when EU guidance changes
- Team collaboration: assign checklist steps to specific owners
- Integration with existing HRMS/ATS/CRM to auto-detect AI features in use
Sources
- https://www.legalnodes.com/article/eu-ai-act-2026-updates-compliance-requirements-and-business-risks — EU AI Act risk categories, penalties, and SMB action plan
- https://axis-intelligence.com/eu-ai-act-news-2026/ — enforcement deadlines, compliance costs, prohibited practices list
- https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2026/04/us-companies-face-eu-ai-acts-possible-august-2026-compliance-deadline — extraterritorial reach and US company obligations
Requirements
AI Act Ready — Requirements
Goals
- Give SMEs a fast, non-technical on-ramp to EU AI Act compliance.
- Surface the August 2, 2026 enforcement deadline as a concrete, urgent countdown.
- Let users inventory AI systems they deploy or provide and classify each by risk tier.
- Show a per-system checklist of required compliance actions and an overall readiness score.
- Make the tool self-serve — no compliance consultant needed for the initial assessment.
Primary user
Persona: Sarah Chen, Head of Operations at a 120-person SaaS company based in Germany that sells CRM and HR analytics tools to EU customers. Sarah's team uses a dozen AI-powered tools internally and their product has an embedded AI scoring engine. She needs to understand what they owe under the Act without reading 100 pages of regulation, and she needs to report readiness to the board before July 2026.
Job-to-be-done: Quickly understand which of our AI systems are high-risk, what specifically we must do, and how close we are to done.
Functional requirements
- FR1: Display a live countdown (days, hours, minutes) to the August 2, 2026 deadline on the main dashboard.
- FR2: Load AI system inventory from
sample-data.jsonon page load without a build step or server. - FR3: Display each AI system as a card showing name, category, risk tier, and completion percentage.
- FR4: Color-code risk-tier badges: red (Prohibited), orange (High-Risk), yellow (Limited-Risk), green (Minimal-Risk).
- FR5: Allow the user to filter the system list by risk tier via tab bar.
- FR6: Expand a system card to reveal its full compliance checklist with individually toggleable steps.
- FR7: Persist checklist-step completion state in
localStorageso refreshing the page does not reset progress. - FR8: Calculate and display a company-level overall compliance score as a percentage gauge.
- FR9: Show summary stats: total systems, fully-compliant systems count, total outstanding checks.
- FR10: Mark a system card as fully compliant (green border + checkmark) when all its checklist items are done.
- FR11: Provide a "Reset Demo" button to clear localStorage and restore the prototype to its initial state.
- FR12: Render cleanly on mobile (single-column stack) and desktop (multi-column grid).
User stories
- As a compliance lead, I want to see how many days remain until the deadline so that I can communicate urgency to leadership.
- As an operations manager, I want to see all my AI systems in one place so that I know the full scope of what needs attention.
- As a team member, I want to filter systems by risk tier so that I can focus on the highest-priority items first.
- As a user, I want to click through a per-system checklist so that I know exactly what actions are still outstanding.
- As a user, I want my completed checklist items to be remembered across sessions so that I can pick up where I left off.
- As a CTO, I want an overall compliance score so that I can report readiness status to the board in one number.
- As a new user, I want the risk tiers explained inline so that I don't need to read the Act itself to understand the categories.
Non-functional requirements
- All processing is client-side; no data leaves the browser.
- No API keys, no backend, no environment variables.
- Third-party libraries loaded from public HTTPS CDNs only.
- Page must render and be interactive in under 2 seconds on a standard laptop.
- Accessible: risk-tier color differences reinforced by text labels (not color alone).
- Compatible with Chrome, Firefox, Safari (latest two major versions each).
Out of scope (for the prototype)
- User authentication or multi-user accounts.
- Cloud persistence (Supabase, Firebase, or similar).
- PDF/CSV export of compliance reports.
- Regulatory-update alerts or webhook integrations.
- Automatic AI-system detection via integrations with third-party tools.
- Legal advice or jurisdiction-specific guidance beyond the EU AI Act framework.
Open questions
- Should the tool cover UK AI regulation as well, given post-Brexit divergence?
- How granular should checklist steps be — article-level citations or plain-English summaries?
- Should the compliance score weight high-risk systems more heavily than limited/minimal-risk?
