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EU AI Act Readiness Review
The AI Office of Ireland opens on 1 August 2026. Here is what you do now.
A four-week engagement that delivers a complete picture of your AI exposure, your compliance gaps, and a roadmap for closing them — in time to face the AI Office on your terms.
Prefer to talk now? +353 86 021 2029
The 1 August 2026 AI Office date is fixed.
Ireland's AI Office of Ireland becomes operational that day — coordinating enforcement and exercising compulsory information powers from December 2026. Prohibited practices and the Article 4 AI literacy obligation are already enforceable. High-risk conformity deadlines were extended to 2 December 2027 (standalone) and 2 August 2028 (regulated products) by the EU Digital Omnibus deal — but the inventory, classification and governance work is overdue under all three timelines.
The Programme
Four weeks. Four deliverables. Complete picture.
Every week of the engagement produces a discrete output. At the end of week four, you hold the full Action Pack — everything you need to demonstrate compliance readiness and begin remediation.
AI Systems Inventory
Every AI tool in use across your organisation, mapped by function and risk exposure.
Risk Classification
Which systems are high-risk under the Act, which are limited or minimal risk — and what obligations follow from each.
Compliance Gap Assessment
What is missing against your deployer obligations — human oversight, logging, bias assessment, transparency requirements.
Remediation Roadmap + Board Brief
A 90-day action plan prioritised by risk, with accountability assigned. One-page board note written for non-technical directors.
What You Receive
The Action Pack
At the close of the engagement, you receive a complete set of documents — formatted for regulatory scrutiny, board presentation, and operational use.
- AI Systems Register — the inventory, formatted for regulatory scrutiny
- Risk Classification Matrix — each system, its category, its obligations
- Compliance Gap Report — structured by obligation: human oversight, logging, bias assessment, transparency
- 90-day Remediation Roadmap — prioritised by risk, with accountability assigned
- Board Briefing Note — one page, written for non-technical directors
Service Tiers
Scoped to your organisation
Three variants of the review, each fixed in scope and deliverable. Choose the one that fits your size and sector.
The engagement fee is fixed and confirmed within 48 hours of your scoping call.
Fewer than 250 employees
SME Readiness Review
A focused three-week programme covering AI inventory, risk classification and compliance gap assessment. Scoped for organisations with simpler AI deployments that need a clear picture of their exposure before the AI Office of Ireland becomes operational.
Included
- AI Systems Register
- Risk Classification Matrix
- Compliance Gap Report
3 weeks
Complex AI deployments
Enterprise Readiness Review
The full four-week programme, including the 90-day Remediation Roadmap and Board Briefing Note. For larger organisations with multiple business units, more extensive AI deployments, or board-level accountability requirements.
Included
- AI Systems Register
- Risk Classification Matrix
- Compliance Gap Report
- 90-day Remediation Roadmap
- Board Briefing Note
4 weeks
Professional services firms
Sector Readiness Review
For law firms, accountancy practices, and financial services organisations with specific regulatory overlaps — Law Society of Ireland obligations, Central Bank expectations, and GDPR intersections with the AI Act. The review maps compliance across all relevant frameworks.
Included
- AI Systems Register
- Risk Classification Matrix
- Compliance Gap Report
- 90-day Remediation Roadmap
- Regulatory Overlap Assessment (Law Society / Central Bank / GDPR)
- Board Briefing Note
4–5 weeks
Why Acuity AI Advisory
Independent. Experienced. Fixed scope.
- No software to sell. No vendor alliance. The finding is not shaped by what comes next commercially.
- Ger Perdisatt: former COO Microsoft Western Europe. Knows how AI is actually deployed in enterprise — not how vendors say it works.
- Institutional partner of the Law Society of Ireland and Institute of Directors Ireland.
- This is not a Big 4 engagement. No open-ended proposal, no six-month discovery phase, no retainer that outlasts the problem. Four weeks, fixed scope, done.
- The engagement fee is fixed and confirmed within 48 hours of your scoping call — no variation, no surprises.
Questions
Common questions
What does the EU AI Act Readiness Review cover?
The review is a fixed-scope, four-week engagement. Week one: a complete inventory of every AI system in use across your organisation, mapped by function and risk exposure. Week two: risk classification — identifying which systems are high-risk under the Act and which fall into limited or minimal risk categories. Week three: a compliance gap assessment against your deployer obligations under the Act, structured by obligation area. Week four: a 90-day remediation roadmap and a Board Briefing Note written for non-technical directors. You receive the full Action Pack at the close of week four.
How is this different from a legal compliance review?
Legal reviews tell you what the law says. This review tells you where your specific systems are exposed and what to do about it. We are not solicitors. We are operational advisors who have deployed and governed AI at enterprise scale — including across Microsoft Western Europe. The output is not a legal opinion; it is a practical action plan grounded in how AI is actually used inside organisations, not how vendors say it works. For organisations in regulated sectors, the two are complementary — not substitutes.
Which organisations need this?
Any Irish organisation using AI systems — which, in practice, is almost every organisation using modern HR software, CRM platforms, document management tools, or analytics systems. If you cannot immediately produce a complete inventory of the AI systems you are deploying and their risk classification under the Act, you need this review. The EU AI Act imposes obligations on deployers, not just developers. Ignorance of what is running in your organisation is not a defence.
What are the actual EU AI Act deadlines Irish organisations need to plan around?
Three dates matter. Ireland's AI Office of Ireland becomes operational on 1 August 2026 — coordinating enforcement, with compulsory information powers from December 2026. Prohibited AI practices have been banned since February 2025; the Article 4 AI literacy obligation has applied since then, with supervision and enforcement beginning on 2 August 2026. Following the EU Digital Omnibus deal in May 2026, the high-risk AI conformity deadlines were extended: 2 December 2027 for standalone high-risk AI systems, and 2 August 2028 for AI embedded in regulated products under Annex I Section A. The readiness review focuses on the inventory, classification and governance work that is overdue under all three timelines — not a single artificial deadline.
Not ready for the review yet?
Start with the checklist.
The EU AI Act compliance checklist we use to open every readiness review — the deadlines that actually apply, the deployer obligations most organisations miss, and the first ten questions to answer internally. Free, one page, no follow-up sales calls.
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EU AI Act Compliance Checklist
The deadlines, the deployer obligations, and the first ten questions — on one page.
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Get your fixed-fee quote
Tell us roughly what you run. We reply within one working day, and the fee is fixed and confirmed within 48 hours of a scoping call.
This is not a Big 4 engagement. No open-ended proposal, no discovery phase that outlasts the problem. Four weeks, fixed scope, done.
The review takes four weeks. The AI Office's compulsory information powers commence in December 2026 — the earlier the inventory exists, the easier every conversation after it.
Prefer to talk first? Book a 30-minute scoping call or call +353 86 021 2029.