AIRegister
EU AI Act compliance inventory and documentation tool for SMEs.
The Idea
An AI system inventory and compliance documentation tool for the EU AI Act deadline. Every company using AI in hiring, credit scoring, healthcare, education, or law enforcement must have a full inventory of AI systems, risk classification, technical documentation, conformity assessments, and EU database registration. AIRegister automates the whole process.
Why Now
August 2, 2026 is the hard deadline for EU AI Act high-risk system compliance. That's 5 months away. This is the exact same dynamic as GDPR in 2018. Businesses had a deadline, no idea what they needed, and a wave of cookie consent tools and privacy policy generators made millions. The EU AI Act wave hasn't broken yet. Search results are mostly law firms and consultancies charging €5-20k for manual assessments. There's basically nothing self-serve for SMEs.
How to Build
Onboarding wizard: "Tell us about the AI tools your company uses." Claude classifies each system into EU AI Act risk tiers (prohibited / high-risk / limited-risk / minimal). Auto-generates the required technical documentation templates for each system. Compliance checklist with status tracking (red/amber/green). Export a compliance dossier PDF ready for auditors. Stack: Next.js, Vercel, Stripe, Claude API.
Revenue Model
Free: scan up to 3 AI systems, see your risk profile. Pro: €49/mo for unlimited systems, full documentation generation, ongoing monitoring, PDF exports. Team: €149/mo for multi-user, audit trail, annual compliance review alerts. Target: 200 Pro customers before the August deadline = €10k/mo recurring.
Effort
2 weeks to a solid v1. Weekend for a landing page with waitlist + basic risk classifier.
Risk
The EU AI Act is complex and you are not a lawyer. Would need serious disclaimers (this is not legal advice). Risk of building the wrong thing if classification logic is off. Big compliance SaaS players (Securiti, OneTrust) will eventually enter, but they're slow and expensive. You'd own the scrappy SME tier.
This is a real play. Timing is almost perfect. Early enough to be first, late enough that urgency is real. It's not technically hard. It's a research + content problem wrapped in a clean UI. The GDPR parallel is not a stretch. The SME tier is unserved. Main question is: do you want to be in a compliance niche, or does that feel boring?