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Does the EU AI Act apply to you?

Six questions. A dated list of the obligations that reach your organisation, what each one actually requires, and the source behind every date. Export it to your calendar.

In short

The EU AI Act reaches you if you place an AI system on the EU market, if you are established in the EU, or if you sit anywhere in the world and the output of your system is used in the EU. Which obligations apply then depends on whether you build the system or use it, what it decides, and whether it interacts with people. This tool works through those six questions and returns a dated list.

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Six questions. A dated list of what applies to you.

Most AI Act coverage tells you what the law says. This tells you which parts of it reach your organisation, what each one actually requires, and the date it takes effect - with the source next to every date. You can put the result straight in front of a board.

  • Output

    A dated obligation list, not a score

  • Sources

    Every date cited and verified

  • Export

    Download it to your calendar

Nothing is recorded unless you choose to send yourself the plan at the end. This is scoping guidance to help you ask better questions, not legal advice, and it does not create a client relationship.

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FAQ

About this tool

Does the EU AI Act apply to UK companies?

It can. The Act reaches providers who place AI systems on the EU market, deployers established in the EU, and - the part that catches people out - providers or deployers located anywhere in the world where the OUTPUT of the system is used in the EU. A UK company with EU customers, EU users, or whose model output reaches people in the EU can be in scope without having any EU entity at all.

What is the difference between a provider and a deployer?

A provider develops an AI system, or has one developed, and places it on the market under its own name or trade mark. A deployer uses an AI system under its own authority. They carry different obligations, and the distinction moves: substantially modifying a system, or putting your own name on a bought-in one, can make a deployer into a provider of it. Buying a compliant system does not make the buyer compliant.

When do the EU AI Act obligations actually take effect?

The Act applies in stages. Prohibited practices and AI literacy have applied since 2 February 2025. General-purpose AI model obligations followed on 2 August 2025, and the Article 50 transparency duties on 2 August 2026. The Annex III high-risk obligations were deferred and now apply from 2 December 2027. Every date in this tool is taken from Cloudgap's regulatory horizon, which cites its source and records when it was last verified.

Is this legal advice?

No. It is scoping guidance designed to help you ask the right questions internally and to know which obligations to read first. Applicability under the Act turns on facts a six-question tool cannot see, and nothing here creates a client relationship. Where the position is genuinely arguable the tool says so rather than resolving it for you.

What do you do with my answers?

Nothing is recorded unless you choose to email the list to yourself at the end. The result is computed in your browser, and the calendar file is built in your browser too, so no request carries your answers anywhere you did not ask them to go. If you do submit the form, Cloudgap processes your email address, your organisation if you give it, and your answers, on the basis of your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.