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The EU AI Act Quick-Check

Four questions to place one AI use case under the EU AI Act before you build it. Work through it for one use case at a time; the risk tier is the answer that matters, because it sets the cost. The four tiers are prohibited, high-risk, limited-risk, and minimal-risk, and Annex III is the one most teams misjudge, since it covers ordinary decisions like employment screening and credit scoring, not just biometric surveillance. The tier changes the cost: a high-risk system carries Annex IV documentation and post-market monitoring from 2 December 2027, a limited-risk one only a labelling duty from 2 December 2026.

Question 1 of 4

Is it an AI system in scope?

The Act covers AI systems placed on the EU market, or whose output is used in the EU, wherever the provider sits.

Common questions

Is this quick-check legal advice?

No. It places a use case in one of the EU AI Act's four risk tiers and names the obligations that tier triggers, the same first pass we run before scoping the AI Discovery Sprint. A borderline classification, or anything with legal exposure attached, still needs your legal team or outside counsel to sign off.

We have several AI use cases. Do we run the check once or per use case?

Per use case. The Act classifies at that level, not at the level of the whole platform, so a use case that touches biometric data or employment decisions can land in a different tier from one that summarizes internal documents, even inside the same product.

What happens after I get my result?

The download unlocks once you finish the questions, and the result page links to the AI Discovery Sprint if the use case lands in a tier that needs Annex IV documentation or post-market monitoring set up before launch.

Our use case is still a prototype, not in production. Does the Act apply yet?

Some obligations, transparency duties among them, attach at development, not just at deployment. The check flags which of your answers change once the use case actually ships.