EU AI Act Compliance Checklist for SaaS Teams

Use this checklist to prepare the company, system, risk, policy, transparency, and review information a SaaS team needs before creating EU AI Act compliance drafts.

Start with your AI system inventory

List every AI feature your product or team uses. Include customer support chatbots, recommendation engines, AI-generated summaries, scoring workflows, workflow assistants, fraud signals, sales enrichment, and internal productivity assistants. For each system, write the system name, intended purpose, users, deployment location, third-party vendors, data inputs, outputs, and whether a human reviews the result. This is the foundation for every later document.

Classify the role and legal pathway

First decide whether your company is acting as a provider, deployer, importer, distributor, product manufacturer, or GPAI model provider. Check prohibited practices before assessing Annex I, Annex III, and Article 50 separately. A support chatbot is not automatically a formal legal risk class; direct interaction may trigger Article 50 disclosure unless the AI nature is obvious.

Prepare the applicable first-draft pack

Start with an AI System Inventory, Scope and Role Memo, and AI Literacy Plan. Add an Article 50 Applicability Assessment and applicable notice or marking plan where needed. Potential high-risk systems can prepare readiness drafts, but an outline is not a completed Annex IV file or conformity assessment.

Keep legal review focused

ComplyAI is not legal advice. The best workflow is to generate the draft pack, fill missing company details, resolve placeholders, and give the package to a lawyer, DPO, auditor, investor, or customer security reviewer. This saves drafting hours and helps reviewers focus on judgment calls: role classification, high-risk mapping, data protection, vendor responsibility, and operational controls.

ComplyAI is a first-draft generator, not a law firm. Contact: support@complyai.tech.