Dec 2, 2026 Milestone · Free Executive Resource

The EU AI Act checklist for people who ship AI.

The December 2, 2026 grace period ends whether you're ready or not. 27 operational checks across inventory, classification, incident reporting, and audit trails.

Written by a practitioner, not a law firm. Most EU AI Act guides are 80-page legal opinions that tell you what the law is, but not what your engineering and PMO teams must actually commit to git and deliver to auditors. This checklist distills the regulation into 27 actionable checks.

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Updated September 2026 · Formatted for Technical Leads, SteerCos, and AI PMOs

What's Inside the 27 Checks

1. System Inventory & Classification

Separate prohibited systems (social scoring, subliminal manipulation) from Annex III high-risk use cases (employment, biometrics, critical infrastructure) and general-purpose AI.

2. Technical Documentation & Model Cards

Required data provenance, training data curation logs, eval benchmarks, and architectural model cards that meet Article 11 standards before production launch.

3. 72-Hour Incident Reporting Engine

The operational protocol to detect, quarantine, and notify national competent authorities within 72 hours of any serious algorithmic incident or systemic failure.

4. Human Oversight & Logging

Enforcing human-in-the-loop stop switches, output validation gates, and immutable automated logging (Article 12) for at least six months of inference data.

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