A sleek, glass-walled server rack filled with illuminated hardware, each component meticulously organized, tiny status LEDs forming a faint constellation of greens and blues. In front of the rack rests a glossy black tablet displaying a minimalist financial dashboard of ascending line graphs and precise numeric readouts, all in sharp focus. The environment is a spotless, modern data center with reflective polished concrete floors and neatly routed cabling. Cool, diffused overhead lighting creates clean reflections on the glass surfaces and subtle shadows along the floor. Photographic realism, shot at eye level with a slightly wide angle and shallow depth of field, emphasizing the contrast between raw computing infrastructure and abstract financial data. The mood is professional, controlled, and quietly powerful, perfectly capturing the intersection of money and machines.

Ales Frelih

The deadline is real: August 2, 2026

From that date, Article 4 (AI literacy) and Article 50 (transparency) of the EU AI Act apply to any business using AI tools — including ChatGPT and Copilot. Most small businesses don’t know yet. I write about what actually applies, what doesn’t, and what to do about it in under an hour..

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Why this site exists

I’m not a lawyer and not a consultant. I’m a small-business guy who had to work through the EU AI Act myself — and found nothing but panic-marketing and €5,000 audit offers. So I built practical kits instead: checklists, audit templates and training material in German, French, English and Norwegian. This site documents what I learn, for free.

A pristine, matte-black trading workstation with three ultra-wide monitors forming a seamless arc, each screen filled with elegant, data-dense AI-driven financial visualizations: heatmaps, anomaly flags, and algorithmic trade flows. A brushed aluminum keyboard and a single minimalist trackpad sit precisely aligned on a dark walnut desk with a subtle grain texture. Behind the setup, a floor-to-ceiling window reveals a softly blurred city skyline of financial district towers at dusk. Cool, indirect ambient light from the monitors casts faint blue highlights on the desk surface, while the sunset outside adds a gentle warm rim light. Photographic realism with a slightly elevated, three-quarter view, sharp focus on the screens, and a tasteful bokeh background. The mood is analytical, high-tech, and quietly intense, conveying an environment where AI continuously interprets complex markets.
Sensitive urgent EU AI Act Article 4 compliance scene
A large, curved transparent holographic interface hovering above a matte charcoal desk, projecting three-dimensional candlestick charts, risk heatmaps, and flowing lines that represent AI decision paths in vivid cyan and amber tones. Beneath the hologram rests a minimalist, closed laptop with a brushed graphite finish, its logo barely visible. The surrounding space is a dim, ultra-modern office with clean architectural lines and a faint view of abstracted city lights through a glass wall. Focused, directional overhead lighting softly illuminates the desk surface while the holographic elements provide additional glow, casting subtle reflections on the desk. Photographic realism with a cinematic, slightly low-angle perspective and sharp focus on the floating data. The atmosphere is futuristic yet orderly, conveying sophisticated, algorithm-driven finance operating at the edge of current technology.

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Signal, not spin, on AI-shaped markets.

A deep, cinematic shot down a narrow corridor of tall, matte-black server towers, each side lined with orderly blinking indicator lights that gradually recede into the distance. On the polished floor between the racks, a transparent digital overlay appears as if projected on the surface: dynamic value-at-risk charts, stress test results, and anomaly alerts in crisp neon lines. Subtle fog in the far background catches shafts of cool white overhead light, enhancing depth and perspective. The scene is captured with photographic realism, using a low-angle, central composition that pulls the eye toward a bright vanishing point. Reflections of the digital overlays shimmer faintly on the server doors. The atmosphere is tense, analytical, and slightly mysterious, evoking the hidden infrastructure where algorithmic risk engines run at full speed.

Compliance, without the fear

No countdown timers. No fine-mongering. Just the actual regulation, translated into steps a small business can do on a Tuesday afternoon. Start with the free 10-minute check — it tells you whether the AI Act affects you at all.

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