We Handle EU AI Act Compliance So You Don't Have To
The EU AI Act applies to any organization whose AI systems are used within the Union, regardless of where that organization is based. Most enterprises cannot answer the first question a regulator will ask: which AI systems are actually running, and who is accountable for them?
The Act Applies to You, Even Outside Europe
The EU AI Act applies extraterritorially wherever an AI system's output is used within the Union. A US-headquartered enterprise with EU customers, subsidiaries, or partners is in scope. Non-compliance carries fines of up to €35 million or 7% of global annual turnover, whichever is higher.
Extraterritorial Reach
If your AI outputs reach EU citizens or EU-based operations, you are in scope, regardless of where your company is incorporated.
Up to 7% of Revenue
Penalties scale with severity: €35M or 7% for prohibited practices, €15M or 3% for high-risk non-compliance, €7.5M or 1% for inaccurate information.
Compliance Is Not Optional
Obligations are phased in through 2027. Prohibited practices are already enforceable. High-risk conformity assessments are coming next.
Discovery and AI Inventory
Creating a single source of truth for all software within your environment for AI use. Before you can comply, you need to know what AI exists across your organization.
Audit AI Applications
Continuously discover and catalog every AI application, tool, and agent deployed across your enterprise. Build a complete, living inventory that regulators expect under Article 26.
Identify Shadow AI
Detect unsanctioned AI tools adopted by employees without IT or compliance approval. Shadow AI is the single largest compliance blind spot, and Kanawai surfaces it automatically.
Map the AI Supply Chain
Trace every AI vendor, API integration, and underlying LLM provider in your environment. Understand the full supply chain from the application layer down to the foundation model.
Risk Classification and Core Compliance
The EU AI Act requires every AI system to be classified into a risk tier. Kanawai automatically categorizes every detected AI tool and platform into the proper category, and identifies General Purpose AI (GPAI) systems used for development or fine-tuning of large language models.
Prohibited
Banned outright. Social scoring, manipulative techniques, real-time biometric identification in public spaces.
High-Risk
Annex III systems: employment, credit, law enforcement, education, critical infrastructure. Requires conformity assessment.
Limited Risk
Transparency obligations. Users must be informed they are interacting with AI (chatbots, deepfakes, emotion recognition).
Minimal Risk
No specific obligations. AI-enabled games, spam filters, and most general-purpose tools.
General Purpose AI (GPAI) Detection
Kanawai identifies AI systems used for development, fine-tuning, or hosting of large language models. GPAI providers face additional transparency and documentation obligations under the Act, and Kanawai ensures these systems are flagged and tracked.
Role and Accountability Assignment
The EU AI Act assigns different obligations depending on whether your organization acts as a Provider or Deployer. Kanawai determines your role for each AI system, analyzes flow-down contract requirements, and assigns clear ownership.
Determine Persona: Provider or Deployer
For each AI system in your inventory, Kanawai determines whether your organization acts as a Provider (building or placing AI on the market) or a Deployer (using AI under the provider's authority). Each role carries distinct obligations under the Act.
Flow-Down Contracts Analysis
Analyze vendor agreements and supply chain contracts to identify where compliance obligations flow between providers, deployers, and downstream integrators. Ensure contractual coverage matches regulatory requirements.
Assign Ownership
Map every AI system to a named accountable owner within your organization. Establish clear lines of responsibility so that every system has a person who can respond to a regulatory inquiry.
Technical and Governance Controls
The EU AI Act requires robust technical safeguards and governance processes. Kanawai provides the operational infrastructure to satisfy these requirements continuously, not just at audit time.
Technical Logging and Chain of Custody
Every governance action produces a cryptographically signed, tamper-evident evidence artifact with a hash, digital signature, trusted timestamp, and a verified chain-of-custody log. Article 12 requires automatic logging of events and Kanawai delivers it as a by-product of operation.
Data Governance
Detect when confidential, restricted, or regulated personal data is transmitted to an external AI endpoint. Classify data exposure by category, including PII, source code, financial records, and health information. Satisfy both EU AI Act and GDPR data governance duties simultaneously.
Transparency Labeling
Identify limited-risk AI systems that require transparency disclosures. Monitor that users interacting with chatbots, AI-generated content, deepfakes, or emotion recognition systems are properly informed they are engaging with AI.
Human Oversight Protocols
Enforce human-in-the-loop requirements for high-risk AI systems. Kanawai automates containment for unambiguous violations but escalates judgment calls to named owners with full evidence, data classification, and a recommended action attached.
Ongoing Risk Framework Alignment
The EU AI Act is not a one-time certification. It assumes continuous monitoring and governance. Kanawai maps natively to the leading international frameworks that structure ongoing AI risk management.
ISO/IEC 42001
AI Management System
ISO/IEC 42001 provides the management system framework for establishing continuous AI governance programs. Kanawai supports this standard by:
- Maintaining a living AI system inventory
- Enforcing accountability with named system owners
- Producing audit-ready evidence as a by-product
- Enabling continuous improvement through governance context that compounds over time
NIST AI RMF
AI Risk Management Framework
Leverage the NIST AI RMF "Map, Measure, Manage, Govern" cycle to structure technical risk evaluations and red-teaming. Kanawai maps to each function natively:
- MAP: Continuous AI inventory attributed to users and departments
- MEASURE: Per-system risk posture and data exposure detection
- MANAGE: Automated containment and evidence-backed escalation
- GOVERN: Named owners, approval workflows, and policy enforcement
Obligation to Capability Map
Each article of the EU AI Act creates specific obligations. Kanawai AI maps your AI estate to these obligations and provides the operational capabilities to satisfy them continuously.
Prohibited Practices
Flag AI uses that fall into banned categories before they create exposure.
High-Risk Systems
Identify Annex III systems in use and surface them for governance review.
Data Governance
Track what data each AI system touches and where it flows.
Record-Keeping
Automatic, immutable logging of AI-system events and actions.
Deployer Obligations
Give deployers the inventory, oversight, and monitoring the Act requires.
Evidence Built for Regulators
Each governance action produces a cryptographically signed, tamper-evident artifact with a hash, digital signature, trusted timestamp, a file manifest classified by sensitivity, and a verified chain-of-custody log. Compliance, legal, and insurance teams get a defensible record rather than a reconstructed narrative.
Continuous Compliance, Not a Point-in-Time Scramble
The EU AI Act assumes ongoing monitoring and record-keeping. A periodic audit is stale the moment it is finished. Kanawai builds a continuously learning graph of people, teams, vendors, AI tools, and obligations so every scan sharpens the inventory and every action becomes a new signal.
✕ Point-in-Time Audits
- Stale before the report is delivered
- Shadow AI adopted between audit cycles
- Reconstructed evidence for regulators
- No visibility into data exposure
- Weeks to contain a violation
✓ Kanawai AI: Always Ready
- Living inventory updated in real time
- New AI tools classified as they appear
- Evidence produced as a by-product of governance
- Data exposure detected and classified instantly
- Containment in under 60 seconds
Why Kanawai AI for EU AI Act
The same inventory that satisfies US obligations satisfies EU requirements. One platform, one connection, both regimes.
EU AI Act Expertise
Our experts are ready to assist your organization with years of experience in EU compliance, GDPR, and cross-border AI regulation.
Relationship-Aware
Our platform connects your AI tools, data, people, and obligations to understand the compliance implications across your organization.
Evidence You Can Defend
Signed, timestamped artifacts built for audit, legal, and insurance review. Every action produces a cryptographically verifiable record.
Value Compounds
Governance context deepens the longer the platform operates. You are continuously ready, not playing catch-up when the regulator calls.
Stop Guessing. Start Knowing.
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