EU AI Act in force — Documentation duties have been enforceable since August 2025. Are you compliant yet?
EU AI Act · Mandatory since August 2025
Comply with the EU AI Act,
protect your reputation and optimize the cost of doing so.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 requires you to document, trace and audit every AI system you use. Needine operates that entire technical infrastructure for you — without you having to build or maintain it.
- No in-house technical team
- Verifiable certificates
- Live in 48 hours
- Continuous compliance, not one-off
Why you can't ignore it
Non-compliance has a price
The Regulation sets tiered penalties depending on the severity of the breach.
€35M / 7%
Maximum fine for prohibited practices (Art. 5)
Up to €35 million or 7% of annual global turnover, whichever is higher.
€15M / 3%
For breach of general obligations
Applies to high-risk requirements, transparency, technical documentation and activity logs. For SMEs and start-ups, the lower of the percentage and the fixed cap applies.
The alternative
Build it in-house or outsource it?
Build internally
- 6-18 months of estimated development
- You need legal, technical and security profiles
- The regulation evolves — continuous maintenance
- No guarantee your interpretation is correct
- Cost >€100K in year 1 for a serious implementation
Hire Needine
- Live in 48 hours, not months
- We update whenever the rules change
- Certificates verifiable by third parties
- Predictable monthly cost, no upfront investment
- Your engineering team stays focused on the product
What you no longer need to build
8 critical EU AI Act pieces covered by Needine
When a company hires needine.com, it outsources the technical compliance layer. You don't have to invest in teams, infrastructure or maintenance to sustain each of these components.
AI logging and traceability system
Needine generates and retains the technical logs required by Art. 12 of the EU AI Act: prompts, models, versions, parameters, input/output hashes and final outcome. Your company doesn't have to design, maintain or audit that internal logging system.
Cryptographic digital signature (Ed25519)
Every document is signed with Ed25519 keys managed by Needine. No need to set up HSMs, internal PKI, key rotation or cryptographic custody.
Blockchain anchoring (Arbitrum One)
We publish the hash of every certificate on Arbitrum One to guarantee immutability. No need to run nodes, manage gas, corporate wallets or a Web3 team.
Documented human-in-the-loop
We record who approved each AI decision, when and with which role — the human oversight requirement of Art. 14 is automatically evidenced. No need to build your own auditable approval flow.
Trust score and risk assessment
Each AI output gets a confidence score computed from 8 factors. Saves you from building a model risk assessment system from scratch (Art. 9).
System technical documentation
We automatically generate the technical documentation required by Annex IV: system description, data used, metrics, controls and limitations, ready to hand over to the regulator.
Reports for competent authorities
Regulatory exports (PDF + signed JSON) ready for AESIA, AEPD or other market surveillance authorities, without designing internal templates.
Public certificate verification
Any third party can verify the integrity of a certified document at needine.com/verify. Your company doesn't have to build a public verification portal.
What you don't need in-house
Covered by Needine
- ✓Internal team for EU AI Act technical compliance
- ✓PKI / HSM infrastructure for digital signing
- ✓Nodes, wallets or in-house blockchain expertise
- ✓Tamper-proof immutable logging system
- ✓Audit and public verification portal
- ✓Annex IV documentation generation pipeline
- ✓Model risk assessment and trust scoring system
- ✓Manual procedures to record human oversight
Still yours
Your responsibility as an organisation
- •Define the purpose and use cases of AI in your organisation
- •Classify your systems (limited, high, prohibited risk)
- •Approve internal policies and train your teams
- •Decide which documents and processes to certify with Needine
Needine doesn't replace the legal owner of the AI system, but it provides all the technical evidence the regulator may require.
The process
From zero to compliant in 3 steps
Inventory your systems
Register what AI you use, for what and in which context. We guide you through the risk classification.
Connect or upload data
API integration or manual upload. Needine generates the required technical documentation automatically.
Certify and audit
You get verifiable certificates and a real-time compliance dashboard. Inspection-ready.
The clock is already ticking
The Regulation entered into force in August 2024. The first obligations have been enforceable since August 2025.
If your company uses AI, you are already within the scope of application.
Aug 2024
Regulation enters into force
Aug 2025
Prohibitions and transparency duties
Aug 2026
Full obligations for high-risk systems
Aug 2027
Full application to all operators
Start certifying your AI processes today
Create a free account, connect your first use case and get signed certificates, anchored in blockchain and audit-ready.