For market-entry advisors, law firms and consultancies
Your clients' EU market entry now carries AI Act exposure.
The EU AI Act reaches US companies whose AI output is used in the Union, regardless of where they are incorporated or hosted. Transparency duties apply from 2 August 2026; high-risk obligations follow on 2 December 2027 after the Digital Omnibus deferral. We handle that workstream, so you don't have to build the capability in-house.
1 · The problem your clients walk into
A US company entering Europe usually plans for GDPR, entity setup, employment and tax. AI Act exposure is newer and routinely missed — including by clients who assume it applies only to EU-established businesses.
The trap is indirect reach. A client selling only to US enterprises is often still in scope, because those enterprises have European employees or users whom the client's system touches.
Consequences are commercial before they are regulatory: EU procurement increasingly asks suppliers to evidence AI Act posture, and authorities can restrict or order withdrawal of a system from the market.
2 · What we do about it
| Engagement | What it delivers | When to point a client here |
|---|---|---|
| EU AI Act Exposure Assessment | Which systems are in scope, at what risk tier, and where the client falls short. Delivers a classification with written rationale, a gap register, and a costed roadmap. | The natural first step for any client entering the EU. Bounded, quotable, and safe to recommend. |
| Remediation Retainer | Execution against the roadmap: technical documentation, quality management, data governance, human oversight, incident reporting, conformity readiness. | Where the assessment finds material gaps and the client needs delivery capacity, not another report. |
| Evidence Infrastructure | Traceability for multi-turn agent systems, automated post-market monitoring, continuous evaluation — implemented in the client’s stack. | Where the client ships AI agents and cannot currently reconstruct what they did. |
3 · Why this is not another compliance report
Most advisors stop at documentation. Documentation shows a system was designed responsibly; it cannot reconstruct what the system actually did on a given day for a given person — which is what an enforcement inquiry asks.
For clients running AI agents, ordinary application logs do not answer that. The deciding step is usually intermediate — a retrieved document, a tool result — and standard logging discards it.
Through a partnership with Latitude.so, an EU-based agent-first observability platform, we implement the evidence layer: audit-ready traceability, automated post-market monitoring, continuous evaluation. Advice and implementation from one party.
4 · How we work with you
- Referral
- You introduce; we scope, contract and deliver directly. You stay informed at whatever level the client is comfortable with. Commercial terms agreed in advance, in writing.
- Co-delivery
- We run the AI Act workstream inside your wider market-entry or compliance engagement. You keep the client relationship and the prime contract; we appear as your specialist.
- On-call review
- No engagement, no fee. Send a client situation and we tell you whether there is an AI Act problem worth pursuing. You can also point clients at our two-minute self-check.
5 · What we are not
Not a law firm — we give regulatory and technical advisory, not legal advice, and our deliverables are built to be reviewed by your counsel. Not a notified body — we prepare clients for conformity assessment and CE marking; we do not perform or issue them. Not a software reseller — where a client's existing tooling satisfies the obligation, we say so.
Send a client situation, or book 15 minutes.
Bernardino Trevilla Langer · Founder & Director · AIGP (IAPP) · Boston, MA
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General information about Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, not legal advice. Application depends on the specific facts of a client's systems and deployments.