ActCheck
EU AI Act risk classifier and documentation generator for compliance teams.
The Idea
The EU AI Act is law. Most companies building AI-powered products have no idea where they fall in the risk classification system — and the compliance documentation requirements are genuinely complex. ActCheck takes your AI system description and outputs a risk classification (unacceptable, high, limited, minimal), a plain-English explanation of your obligations, and a starter documentation pack (conformity declaration, risk management log, technical documentation templates) that your legal team can actually work with.
Why Now
The EU AI Act entered into force in August 2024. High-risk system providers have until August 2026 to comply. General-purpose AI providers had until August 2025. The compliance deadline pressure is real and building. Most legal teams don't understand the technical requirements; most engineering teams don't understand the legal language. There's a translation gap that's currently being filled by expensive consultants charging £500/hour.
How to Build
Build a structured intake form: sector (healthcare, finance, education, etc.), intended use case, level of human oversight, whether it affects "high-risk" domains per Annex III of the Act. Feed that into a classification engine (start with a decision tree, layer LLM for edge cases). Output a risk report + documentation templates pre-populated with their inputs. Sell the templates as editable Word/PDF exports. Add a change-log feature as the Act gets updated.
Revenue Model
Tiered SaaS. Basic classification free (top of funnel). Full report + templates: $149/report or $299/month for unlimited. Enterprise: custom pricing with legal team onboarding. The consulting arbitrage is enormous — if you can replace even 3 hours of compliance consultant time, a $299/month product is an easy sell.
Effort
1 week for a solid MVP. The AI Act's classification logic is structured and well-documented — it's genuinely automatable. The templates are a writing exercise. The hard part is staying current as guidance and secondary legislation evolve.
Risk
Regulatory interpretation is a liability minefield. If a company relies on your classification and gets it wrong, that's a legal risk — you need prominent disclaimers and ideally a legal review partner. Also: the large consultancies (Deloitte, KPMG) will build this themselves or acquire someone who does. You have a narrow window to establish brand authority before they do.
Verdict
Strong 8/10. Real regulatory pressure, a clear translation gap, and willingness to pay is high (compliance budgets are serious). The liability question needs careful positioning — "decision support tool, not legal advice" — but that's manageable. Build this.
Real regulatory pressure, a clear translation gap, and compliance budgets are serious. The liability question needs careful positioning, but this is genuinely buildable and valuable.