Article 50 transparency: enforceable 2 August 2026. High-risk moved to 2027 — this didn't. EU-facing chatbots and generative features are in scope. What applies to you →
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The deal is signed except for one section.

Procurement wants to know how you govern AI, what trained it, who oversees it, and what happens when it's wrong. Answering properly means documents you haven't written — and every week the contract sits unsigned is revenue you've already earned and can't book.

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Requirements in
SSPA DPR v12
18
In Section K (AI),
15 of them updated
2 Aug
Article 50 applies
from 2026
2/10/15
Day incident reporting
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Days
Our turnaround,
not months
If you ship a chatbot or generative feature, read this first

“The AI Act got delayed” is why you might miss your deadline.

The June headlines were half right. High-risk obligations moved to December 2027. But Article 50 transparency — the part that governs AI your users interact with — did not move.

If an EU user can chat with your AI or see content it generated, you must disclose it clearly at the point of interaction. Not buried in your terms. That obligation is enforceable 2 August 2026 — and a metadata-only tag or a line in your T&Cs does not satisfy it.

Check if Article 50 reaches you →

Sources: EU AI Act as amended by the Digital Omnibus; Gibson Dunn & Jones Walker guidance, 2026.

What usually triggers the call

Four ways this lands on your desk.

Procurement sent a questionnaire

An enterprise buyer's vendor review has an AI governance section. Legal can't sign until it's answered and nobody internally owns it.

Microsoft SSPA flagged you

DPR v12 carries 63 requirements; Section K has 18, with 15 updated. For Sensitive Use AI — hiring, credit, healthcare, biometrics — ISO 42001 is required outright. Suppliers who can't evidence it hit Red Status: a hard block on new purchase orders.

Article 50 has applied since 2 August 2026

Run a chatbot or ship generative features and transparency obligations apply now. The Digital Omnibus moved high-risk to December 2027 — it did not move this.

Diligence asked

A term sheet or an acquirer raised AI governance and regulatory exposure, and the honest answer is that nothing is written down yet.

Not sure which of these applies?

Twenty minutes tells you which regimes actually reach you and what's genuinely in scope. Often narrower than expected.

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Where to start

Fix the blocked deal first. Build the rest after.

You probably don't need a full management system this quarter. You need the specific evidence one buyer is asking for, fast enough to keep the contract alive. So that's what we sell first.

Start here · deal is blocked now

AI Trust Package

$3,500
Fixed · 5 business days

Everything the security reviewer on the other side of your deal is asking for, in the format they expect it.

  • ·Public trust page their reviewer can visit
  • ·Pre-filled bank — SIG Lite, CAIQ, SSPA Section K
  • ·AI system inventory and classification
  • ·One-pager your champion can forward internally
Unblock the deal
When certification is on the path

Readiness Engagement

Fixed fee
Scoped on the call · 10–15 days

The full evidence base, for when SSPA requires ISO 42001 outright or an audit is booked.

  • ·All 38 Annex A controls with written justification
  • ·Risk register, impact assessment, technical file
  • ·Cross-framework mapping — one base, four regimes
  • ·60 days of Regulatory Watch included
Scope an engagement

Both are fixed-fee and agreed in writing before work starts. After delivery, Regulatory Watch keeps the evidence current at $500–1,500/month — free for the first 60 days, and opt-in after. We don't auto-enrol anyone.

How it works

From blocked to answered.

We start from what's actually stuck — the questionnaire, the SSPA flag, the diligence request — and work backwards to the evidence that resolves it. Not a compliance programme you don't need yet.

Step 1 · 20 min

Scoping call

What's blocked, which systems are in scope, which regimes reach you.

Step 2 · 30 min

Intake

Your AI systems, data sources, jurisdictions and existing docs. Roughly 30 minutes of engineering time.

Step 3 · days

We build

Classification, risk register, the artifacts the questionnaire asks for, plus cross-framework mapping.

Step 4

You ship it

PDF, editable Word and structured JSON. Your counsel reviews, your team validates, you send it.

Why trust a compliance vendor

A customer found a defect in our work. We published it.

He was reading AIMS-06 and noticed it referenced treatment actions by identifier — TRT-001 through TRT-016 — without describing what any of them were. He was right. Compliance documentation is only worth what the vendor's honesty is worth.

We audited the whole set and found two more defects he hadn't spotted. Four risks with no treatment action at all. Two SoA back-links that didn't reconcile with the treatment plan. An auditor tracing controls would have raised both as findings.

We rebuilt the documents, shipped v2.3 free to every existing customer with a written explanation, and published the account with the control IDs so anyone can check it.

Read the full changelog
changelog · v2.39 Jul 2026
$ audit --set AIMS --trace-controls
 
✗ AIMS-06 · TRT-001…016 never defined
   reported by customer
✗ 4 risks · no treatment action
   found internally
✗ 2 SoA back-links · unreconciled
   found internally
 
✓ 3 defects corrected
✓ v2.3 shipped free to all buyers
✓ published with control IDs
Who buys this

Our buyers so far are a Tokyo IP firm, a European consultancy, and a certification body — organisations whose own reputation depends on the documentation holding up.

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Before you book

The questions founders ask.

We're small. Does any of this actually apply?

Sometimes less than you think, and we'll tell you that on the call rather than sell you a programme. The EU AI Act applies extra-territorially — if your output affects people in the EU it reaches you regardless of incorporation — but obligations depend heavily on classification. Plenty of systems are limited-risk and need transparency measures, not a full technical file.

What does it cost?

The AI Trust Package is $3,500 fixed, delivered in five business days. Readiness Engagements are fixed-fee too but scoped on the call, since it depends on how many systems are in scope and how much already exists in writing. Regulatory Watch is $500–1,500/month afterwards, free for 60 days and opt-in after that.

No hourly billing, no scope creep. For reference: independent consultants run $20,000–$80,000 and Big 4 engagements start at $75,000.

Can't our engineers just fill in the questionnaire?

They can, and for a short vendor form they probably should. It stops working when the buyer asks for the underlying artifacts — Statement of Applicability, risk register, technical file — because those take weeks of senior time to produce from scratch, and they're the same documents the next buyer will ask for.

Are you lawyers? Can you certify us?

No to both. We are not a law firm, not an accredited certification body and not a registered auditor. We build the documentation; your counsel interprets it and an accredited body certifies you if you pursue certification. If what you need is a legal opinion, we'll say so.

How much engineering time does this take?

Roughly 30 minutes for intake, plus a review pass where your team validates the technical claims. We build the structure and the regulatory reasoning; you confirm the facts about your systems are right.

Why not just buy templates?

Often you should — ours start at $149. But certification guidance is blunt: pre-written templates with your company name dropped in won't satisfy an experienced auditor. Buy templates if you have time and expertise; book a call if a deal is blocked.

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Tell us what's blocked.

Twenty minutes on what triggered this, which frameworks reach you, and the fastest route to an answer your buyer accepts. If you don't need us, we'll tell you.

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