We open-sourced our EU AI Act compliance checklist, and most teams misread Article 12

The EU AI Act takes full effect on 2 August 2026. Most SaaS teams I talk to are in “we’ll deal with it later” mode. Partly that’s denial. Mostly it’s that the official text is 458 pages of lawyer-prose with the implementation details buried.

So we wrote an engineer-readable version and open-sourced it today:

Repo: github.com/GatisOzols/eu-ai-act-checklist (MIT, no signup)

This post walks through what’s in it, why we built it, and the four article references most teams underestimate.

What’s in the repo