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The EU AI Act Readiness Kit.

List your AI systems, classify each one and track the evidence every Article asks for, in one fill-in PDF. It covers the 14 Articles in our guide, from risk management (Article 9) to post-market monitoring (Article 72): 72 evidence items, each with an owner, evidence location and target date. Plus an Annex IV documentation outline and a fundamental rights impact assessment template. Annex III high-risk obligations apply from 2 December 2027.

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Annex III high-risk systems enforceable from 2 December 2027.
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What's inside

Seven parts, one fill-in PDF

Built from the same guidance as our Article-by-Article pages, so the checklists match what you read on the site. Fill it in with any PDF reader and save your copy.

01

How to use this kit

Four steps, and which checklists apply to each classification result.

02

AI system inventory

One row per AI system: owner, what it does, built or bought, your role and its classification.

03

Classification record

The five questions from our applicability checker, with space for answers, notes and the result.

04

Evidence checklists

72 evidence items across Articles 9 to 15, 25, 26, 27, 50, 53, 55 and 72, each with an owner, evidence location and target date.

05

Annex IV documentation outline

The nine parts of Annex IV technical documentation, to map what you already have and what's missing.

06

Fundamental rights impact assessment

The Article 27 assessment for public-sector and essential-services deployers.

07

Next steps

Where to go from here, and how an engagement with MindMap runs.

A look inside

The Article 14 checklist, as it appears in the kit

High-risk AI systems must be designed so a human can effectively oversee, understand, monitor, intervene, override, and choose not to use the system in any particular case.

Article 14: Human Oversight
Evidence itemDoneOwnerWhere the evidence livesTarget date
Documented oversight protocol per AI system
Named reviewer roles with competence requirements
Override authority captured in audit trail
Automation-bias mitigation (e.g., randomised review samples)
Two-person review where required by Annex III subcategory

Every Article in the kit follows this format. Read the full explanation of any Article in the Article-by-Article guide.

Who it's for

For the people who own the answer to the regulator

Compliance and risk leads

Run the inventory, record a classification for every system and track an owner and target date against each evidence item.

CIOs and heads of AI

See which Articles apply to which systems, and which ones turn a deployer into a provider under Article 25.

Legal and data protection

Map existing system documentation to the Annex IV outline, and complete the Article 27 assessment where it applies.

How it's built

The same guidance as the site, in a form you can fill in.

  • ✓Built from the same Article-by-Article guidance as our EU AI Act pages, so the checklists match what you read on the site.
  • ✓The classification record follows the five questions of our free applicability checker: scope, AI definition, GPAI, Annex III and the Article 25 trigger.
  • ✓Every evidence item has room for an owner, where the evidence lives and a target date, so the kit doubles as your programme tracker.
  • ✓Working templates to organise your evidence, not legal advice: check classifications and obligations with your legal and compliance teams.
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