AI Act readiness
Article 50 readiness for your AI product
The EU AI Act's transparency rules apply on 2 August 2026. I check your systems, tell you what applies, and put the disclosures and marking in place before the date.
The obligation
What Article 50 requires
Article 50 covers transparency. Four duties can apply, depending on what your system does.
- Article 50(1). Tell people when they are interacting with an AI system.
- Article 50(2). Mark AI-generated audio, image, video, and text so software can detect it.
- Article 50(3). Tell people when they are exposed to emotion recognition or biometric categorisation.
- Article 50(4). Disclose deepfakes, and AI-written text published to inform the public.
The duties apply on 2 August 2026. Systems already on the market before that date have until 2 December 2026 to add machine-readable marking. A separate prohibition on generating non-consensual intimate imagery and child sexual abuse material also applies from 2 December 2026.
If you ship a chatbot, a voice agent, an AI writing tool, or an image or video generator into the EU, at least one of these duties probably applies to you.
The offer
The service
Two parts: a one-time assessment, and an optional monitoring retainer.
The assessment
- I run each of your AI systems through a structured classification based on the Act and the 2026 Digital Omnibus changes.
- You get a written report per system. What the system is under the Act, which obligations apply, and the dates they apply.
- I put the Article 50 disclosures and the marking plan in place.
- You get documentation templates for the records the Act expects you to keep.
The monitoring retainer (optional)
- Monthly monitoring as the rules and dates change.
- Access to a client portal that tracks your systems, obligations, and deadlines.
- Updates when something relevant changes, through the deadlines into 2027.
How it works
Four steps from scoping call to monitoring
Scoping call
About 20 minutes. We go through your products and I tell you roughly where you stand.
Assessment
I record your systems and run the classification. You get the reports and the obligation checklist.
Implementation
I put the disclosures and marking in place and hand over the documentation.
Monitoring
If you take the retainer. Portal access and updates through the deadlines.
Deliverables
What you get
- A classification report for each system, as a PDF.
- An obligation checklist with the dates each item applies.
- Article 50 disclosure and marking, implemented.
- Documentation templates for your records.
- Client portal access with deadline tracking, with the retainer.
Pricing
Fixed scope, scoped to your systems
Fixed fee, scoped to the number of systems.
- Structured classification per system
- Written report with obligations and dates
- Article 50 disclosures and marking
- Documentation templates
Optional, month to month.
- Monthly regulatory monitoring
- Client portal with deadline tracking
- Updates through the 2027 deadlines
[PLACEHOLDER: decide whether to show indicative ranges or "contact for a quote". Confirm final numbers before publishing.]
Proof
Why this is credible
Sample assessment
[PLACEHOLDER: link to a sample assessment PDF]
Client portal
[PLACEHOLDER: screenshot or short walkthrough of the client portal]
Background
[PLACEHOLDER: one or two lines on background and why this is credible]
[PLACEHOLDER: short closing heading, or reuse the site's standard closing block]
Article 50 applies on 2 August 2026. A short call tells you what you need to do before then.