Actor: EU AI Act Compliance Copilot

Actor — EU AI Act Compliance Co-pilot is an AI regulatory compliance tool designed to help teams move from AI idea to go-live with greater clarity, speed and accountability. The project was inspired by real compliance struggles in fast-moving AI and technology projects, where business teams need quick guidance on AI Act classification, triggered obligations, grey-zone risks and practical next steps before implementation can proceed. Actor combines structured intake questions, rule-based AI Act classification logic, explainable rationale, uncertainty flags and an automatically generated compliance roadmap. Rather than acting as a simple checklist, it is designed to surface the difficult questions behind AI governance: when a system may become high-risk, when additional legal review is needed, what evidence should be collected, and what actions must be completed before deployment. Its goal is not to replace legal or compliance professionals, but to operationalize AI governance and help organizations turn regulatory assessment into a clear, trackable path to compliant go-live.

Structured AI Project Intake Guided questionnaire to capture the purpose, functionality, users, data, deployment context, third-party providers, human oversight and business impact of each AI project.

AI Act Classification Engine Rule-based preliminary classification under the EU AI Act, including AI system qualification, prohibited practice screening, high-risk indicators, transparency obligations and GPAI dependencies.

Grey-Zone & Uncertainty Flags Identification of cases requiring further legal, compliance, DPO or InfoSec review, especially where the AI Act classification is not straightforward or the intended use may evolve.

Explainable Compliance Rationale Clear reasoning behind each preliminary classification, showing which answers triggered specific risk indicators, obligations or review requirements.

Automated Compliance Roadmap Generation of practical pre-launch, launch and post-launch compliance actions based on the project’s classification and risk profile.

Action & Evidence Tracking A dedicated workflow to assign owners, monitor deadlines, track completion status and collect supporting evidence for compliance readiness.

Human-in-the-Loop Review Final classification and key compliance decisions remain subject to review and approval by the appropriate legal, compliance and risk stakeholders.

**Go-Live Readiness View **Dashboard-style overview showing whether an AI project is ready to proceed, what blockers remain and which actions must be completed before deployment.

Support would be needed to further strengthen the product’s compliance logic and workflow integrations. In particular, the intake questionnaires should be refined so that more nuanced AI use cases can be captured and regulatory grey zones can be identified more accurately, especially in relation to high-risk classification, evolving intended purposes and borderline decision-support scenarios.

Technical support would also be needed for production hardening as well as integration of Actor with internal project management tools such as Jira, so that compliance roadmap actions can be automatically converted into internal tickets, assigned to relevant owners, monitored against deadlines and followed through during implementation. This would allow the tool to evolve from a classification assistant into an operational compliance workflow layer supporting AI projects from initial assessment to go-live.