EU AI Act Insights for SaaS Founders

Plain English guides to the EU AI Act for SaaS founders. Article 50 disclosure, Annex III high risk triage, deadlines, penalties, and a self audit you can run before 2 August 2026.

• I built the EU AI Act tooling I wished existed
• Two MCP servers that answer EU AI Act questions in Claude and Cursor
• Your AI vendor already complied. You didn't
• What the EU AI Act actually requires from SaaS startups before 2 August 2026
• Annex III high-risk AI systems
• Article 50 transparency obligations
• Article 50 vs Article 52: which one binds your chatbot
• The EU AI Act deadline calendar: three waves to 2028
• What changes for SaaS founders on 2 August 2026
• Annex III: when your SaaS feature is actually high-risk under the EU AI Act
• Article 50 disclosure code: copy-paste templates that pass the AI Act
• Article 50(1) for AI chatbots: the disclosure rule, decoded
• EU AI Act compliance if you use OpenAI's API
• EU AI Act vs GDPR: where they overlap and where they don't
• Provider vs deployer under the EU AI Act: which one is your SaaS
• Self-audit vs hired audit for the EU AI Act: when each makes sense
• What happens if you ignore the EU AI Act
• Self-audit: thirty questions before you commission the practice
• The five-day audit: how the practice moves from intake to handover
• Why the practice ships disclosures in 24 EU languages
• Article 10 data governance for high-risk AI
• Article 25 GPAI provider inheritance
• Article 43 conformity assessment
• Article 5 prohibited AI practices
• Article 53 GPAI provider obligations
• Article 73 incident reporting for high-risk AI
• Article 99 EU AI Act penalties