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 risk level
Do not start by drafting policies. First decide whether your company is acting as a provider, deployer, importer, distributor, or product manufacturer for the AI system. Then check whether the system touches high-risk areas such as employment, credit, healthcare, education, biometric identification, law enforcement, migration, critical infrastructure, or legal decision support. If the system is a normal customer support chatbot that does not make binding decisions, it is usually closer to limited risk, but the final answer depends on your exact use case.
Prepare the minimum draft pack
Most SaaS teams should prepare an AI System Inventory, Article 6 risk classification memo, AI Policy, user-facing transparency notice, and a simple risk assessment. High-risk systems may also need Annex IV technical documentation, human oversight documentation, quality management evidence, logging details, post-market monitoring, and conformity assessment planning. ComplyAI helps create first drafts for these documents so reviewers are not starting from a blank page.
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.