Exceptional breakdown of the governance vacuum. The distinction between compliance as a legal problem versus an ownership problem is spot-on, especially when most orgs are still treating Article 6 classification like a box-ticking excercise that can be delegated. I've seen this first hand where procurement teams sign off on AI tools without even knowing they've become deployers under the Act, which makes the August 2026 deadline feel way more urgent than most boards realize.
Neural Foundry, he procurement example is the pattern I keep seeing as well. Someone signs an SaaS contract, and suddenly the organization is a deployer under Article 26 - with obligations they never budgeted for and accountability they never assigned.
The Act doesn't care how the system entered the building. It cares who's operating it now.
That gap between "we bought a tool" and "we're a deployer with documentation obligations" is where August 2026 will hit hardest. Thanks for reading.
Exceptional breakdown of the governance vacuum. The distinction between compliance as a legal problem versus an ownership problem is spot-on, especially when most orgs are still treating Article 6 classification like a box-ticking excercise that can be delegated. I've seen this first hand where procurement teams sign off on AI tools without even knowing they've become deployers under the Act, which makes the August 2026 deadline feel way more urgent than most boards realize.
Neural Foundry, he procurement example is the pattern I keep seeing as well. Someone signs an SaaS contract, and suddenly the organization is a deployer under Article 26 - with obligations they never budgeted for and accountability they never assigned.
The Act doesn't care how the system entered the building. It cares who's operating it now.
That gap between "we bought a tool" and "we're a deployer with documentation obligations" is where August 2026 will hit hardest. Thanks for reading.