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EU AI Act compliance checklist for SMEs: what to do before your AI system goes live
Start your EU AI Act checklist by listing AI uses, assigning your role, screening prohibited practices and matching controls to each system’s risk.
Artem Synytskyi·Key takeaways
- Classify every AI use case first: prohibited, high-risk, limited-risk (transparency) or minimal-risk.
- Prohibited practices, AI literacy and Article 50 transparency already apply. High-risk duties for Annex III systems apply from 2 December 2027 under Regulation (EU) 2026/1744.
- High-risk systems need risk management, data governance, logging, technical documentation and human oversight, and those controls are cheap to design in and costly to retrofit.
- SMEs get a lower fine cap and simplified documentation, but not an exemption, and the GDPR applies in parallel whenever personal data is involved.
GDPR-compliant LLM: how to choose a model and host it in the EU under GDPR and the AI Act
No language model is GDPR compliant on its own, because compliance depends on where it runs, who operates it, what contract covers it and what data you send.
Artem Synytskyi·Is your AI system high-risk under the EU AI Act? How to classify it in four steps
An AI system is high-risk if it is a safety component of a regulated product or serves an Annex III purpose such as hiring or credit scoring, unless a narrow Article 6(3) exception applies.
Artem Synytskyi·EU AI Act and emotion recognition from voice: what is banned, what is high-risk and how it is enforced
The AI Act bans biometric emotion inference in workplaces and education, except for medical or safety reasons, and sets further rules for other uses.
Erik Salo Akimov·GDPR-compliant transcription services: how to choose one and what to ask before you upload audio
Choose a transcription service by checking its processor agreement, data use, retention, security and transfer safeguards against your own GDPR obligations.
Erik Salo Akimov·AI disclosure under Article 50: chatbots and generated content
Article 50 requires clear notice when people interact directly with AI, unless this is obvious, and separate marking or disclosure for certain generated content.
Artem Synytskyi·AI voice agents for business: what they do, what they cost and what the law requires
An AI voice agent handles routine calls through speech recognition, AI and your business systems, with clear limits and a handover to a person.
Artem Synytskyi·DPIA for AI projects: when you need a data protection impact assessment and what to put in it
You need a DPIA before AI processing that is likely to create high risks to people, based on its data, purpose, scale and effects.
Artem Synytskyi·EU AI Act enterprise compliance checklist: a 12-step programme for 2026 and 2027
An enterprise AI Act programme needs a system inventory, clear ownership, vendor checks and evidence of controls matched to each system’s role and risk.
Artem Synytskyi·EU-hosted AI platforms: what hosted in the EU really means and how to choose one
Choose an EU-hosted AI platform by checking inference location, operator, support access and contracts, rather than relying on the region named in its marketing.
Artem Synytskyi·Medical speech-to-text and GDPR: a clinic checklist
Medical speech-to-text can meet GDPR requirements when your clinic establishes a lawful basis, a health-data condition, processor terms and appropriate safeguards.
Artem Synytskyi·Multilingual website platforms: hreflang and AI translation
Choose a multilingual website platform that publishes crawlable language URLs, connects equivalents with hreflang and lets you review translated content and metadata.
Erik Salo Akimov·RAG vs fine-tuning: how to give an LLM your company's knowledge
Start with RAG for answers from changing company documents and user-specific permissions, and consider fine-tuning for a measured need in format, style or task behaviour.
Artem Synytskyi·Which companies must comply with the EU AI Act? Roles, scope and exemptions
The EU AI Act covers businesses that provide or professionally use AI within its scope, including certain non-EU operators, with duties based on role and use.
Artem Synytskyi·GDPR-compliant RAG: permissions, hosting and deletion
To use RAG with personal data under GDPR, define a lawful purpose, filter retrieval by permissions, limit model inputs and make every stored copy traceable.
Artem Synytskyi·On-prem vs cloud speech-to-text for healthcare: a practical comparison
Choose on-premises speech-to-text when policy requires local control and you can operate it, or EU cloud when a vetted service better fits your workload.
Artem Synytskyi·PII redaction for AI pipelines: techniques, trade-offs and where to put it
For AI pipelines, combine rules and entity detection to mask unneeded personal details before indexing and model calls, then test what the redaction misses.
Erik Salo Akimov·Custom AI system costs in Spain: ESADEX budget guide
ESADEX usually scopes AI and platform projects between €25,000 and €200,000, with the estimate based on integrations, deployment and data requirements.
Erik Salo Akimov·Technical SEO for multilingual business websites: a launch checklist
For multilingual technical SEO, give each language a crawlable URL, connect equivalents with hreflang and localise the visible content and metadata.
Erik Salo Akimov·New to the terminology?
Plain-language definitions of the EU AI Act, GDPR, RAG, PII redaction and the rest.