APRIL 2026 · INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS
EU AI Act Readiness Report.
What we found screening 50 European AI companies against the 6 regulatory gates of the EU AI Act. 4 months before Annex III becomes applicable.
50 companies · 4 sectors · 15+ countries · Screened April 10–12, 2026
11 pages · A4 · 753 KB
HEADLINE
What we found
72% of the 50 companies screened trigger high-risk classification under Art. 6(1) safety components or Art. 6(2) + Annex III use cases. 96% have no public AI Act position. 0 of the 14 companies already holding sectoral certifications (CE MDR, CE-IVD, ACPR banking licences) have publicly mapped the AI Act layer on top.
44% deploy AI systems with direct end-user interaction — chatbots, voice assistants, medical scribes, public-space video analysis — without documented Art. 50 transparency compliance. 34% integrate general-purpose AI models (LLM or foundation models, external or proprietary) within the meaning of Art. 3(63), with no documented obligations under Art. 53 or Art. 50 + Art. 26.
The compliance gap is not about knowledge — the AI Act is covered in trade press and flagged by industry bodies across every sector in this sample. The gap is classification: these companies have not produced a dated, article-mapped document answering the question "what is our regulatory position?". Until that document exists, every other compliance effort is built without a foundation.
METHODOLOGY NOTE
How to read the numbers
The 50 companies were deliberately drawn from four sectors with high regulatory exposure (HealthTech, FinTech, HRTech/EdTech, B2B SaaS/Industrial). The sample is dominated by France (~70%) and is a convenience sample, not a statistical panorama of European AI. The 74% high-risk figure reflects this sectoral selection: in HealthTech and regulated finance, high-risk classification is largely structural under Annex III rather than a discretionary finding.
GPAI is counted per Art. 3(63): LLM/foundation models (external or proprietary), excluding narrow task-specific ML such as credit scoring, medical imaging classifiers, or recommendation engines. All percentages are computed on /50. Five entries returned INCERTAIN on at least one gate and are counted in the base but not in the high-risk total.
All profiles in the report are anonymized. Every evaluation is based exclusively on publicly available information — company websites, product pages, CE mark disclosures, regulatory filings, LinkedIn profiles, press releases. No company was contacted.
What this report is — and is not
This is an independent analysis based on publicly available information, not a legal opinion or a formal audit of any company. Classifications are estimates — only a personalized screening can confirm definitive regulatory status. Sprinkling Act operates as a pre-conformity advisory firm in this market; no commercial relationship with any company listed existed at the time of this analysis.
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