Is Your AI System High-Risk Under the EU AI Act? Free Compliance Checker

Published April 2026 · 5 min read

The EU AI Act is now law. Article 5 prohibited practices have been enforced since February 2, 2025. The rest — including high-risk AI requirements — take full effect August 2, 2026. If you're building, deploying, or selling AI systems in Europe, you need to know your risk classification.

The Four Risk Tiers

The EU AI Act classifies every AI system into one of four tiers:

1. Unacceptable Risk (PROHIBITED)

These AI systems are banned outright. No exceptions. No grace period. Already illegal since Feb 2025.

Examples:

• Social credit scoring systems
• Real-time biometric surveillance in public spaces
• AI that exploits vulnerable groups (children, disabled persons)
• Subliminal manipulation techniques

If you're running any of these, you're already in violation.

2. High Risk (Annex III)

These systems are legal but require strict compliance: risk management systems, data governance, human oversight, technical documentation, and conformity assessments.

Examples:

• Medical diagnosis and treatment AI
• Credit scoring and insurance underwriting
• CV screening and recruitment tools
• Critical infrastructure management
• Law enforcement predictive tools

3. Limited Risk

These require transparency obligations only — you must tell users they're interacting with AI.

Examples:

• Customer service chatbots
• AI-generated content
• Emotion recognition systems

4. Minimal Risk

No specific obligations. Most AI falls here.

Examples:

• Spam filters
• Video game AI
• Inventory management

How to Check Your Risk Level

We built a free EU AI Act Compliance Checker that classifies your AI system in seconds. Enter a description of what your system does, and it returns:

• Risk classification (Unacceptable, High, Limited, or Minimal)
• Applicable EU AI Act articles you need to comply with
• Specific requirements for your risk tier
• Enforcement deadline and timeline
• Security scan for common vulnerabilities (prompt injection, data leakage)

No signup required. No data stored.

Try the Free Compliance Checker →

Why This Matters for Irish Companies

Ireland hosts the European headquarters of most major tech companies. The Irish market is small — reputation travels fast. Being caught non-compliant isn't just a fine (up to €35M or 7% of global turnover). It's a credibility problem.

The companies that get ahead of this will win contracts. The ones that ignore it will scramble in August 2026 when enforcement begins.

What AiEGIS Does

AiEGIS is an AI governance platform built for the EU AI Act. It provides:

• 14-layer security stack protecting AI agents from prompt injection, data leakage, and misuse
• Automated compliance checking mapped to every EU AI Act article
• Agent identity and authentication (agent.json standard)
• Real-time behavioral monitoring and anomaly detection
• 408 automated tests ensuring reliability

Built in Ireland. For Europe.