The EU AI Act’s obligations are phasing in, and even non-EU companies feel the pull through customers and partners. Governance is no longer optional paperwork; it is a market-access requirement.
Risk tiers in one paragraph
Prohibited practices are banned outright; high-risk systems (hiring, credit, medical, critical infrastructure) require documented risk management, data governance, human oversight, and logging; general-purpose models carry transparency duties.
What to do now
Inventory every AI system in use, classify each by risk, assign an owner, and stand up lightweight documentation: intended purpose, training-data notes, evaluation results, and monitoring plans.
Governance as advantage
Enterprises with clean AI inventories close procurement faster and win regulated customers. Datastrel builds right-sized governance programs that satisfy auditors without strangling delivery teams.