Self-service EU AI Act compliance for European SMEs.
The EU AI Act is in force. Maximum penalties reach €35 million or 7% of global annual turnover for prohibited AI practices (Article 99(3)); high-risk AI systems face up to €15 million or 3% under Article 99(4). Witness is the software that gets you audit-ready.
The deadline the regulation set.
The EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) entered into force on 1 August 2024. Obligations phase in over time: Article 50(2) transparency duties apply from 2 August 2026, a settled date, while the high-risk regime is deferred to 2 December 2027 (Annex III) under the Digital Omnibus, adopted 29 June 2026. Maximum penalties reach €35 million or 7% of worldwide annual turnover for prohibited AI practices under Article 99(3); providers and deployers of high-risk AI systems face up to €15 million or 3% under Article 99(4). For a single SME, preparing Annex IV technical documentation, Article 9 risk management, Article 27 FRIA, and an Article 43 conformity assessment is a substantial body of work. The regulation was written to protect SMEs, not to price them out.
What Witness does.
Witness is a self-service platform. The classifier determines whether the EU AI Act applies to your system and at what risk tier (prohibited, high-risk, limited-risk, minimal-risk). From the classification, Witness produces audit-ready documentation: Annex IV technical documentation (Art. 11), Risk Management System (Art. 9), Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment (Art. 27), Conformity Assessment (Art. 43), and AI Literacy programme (Art. 4). Every field cites the exact article it is grounded in. Outputs export as PDF, Word, and Excel. Monthly or yearly subscription, cancel anytime.