AI Risk Check is Innopulse’s answer to a concrete, urgent question that affects every European company using AI from August 2026: which of our AI systems fall under the EU AI Act, in which risk tier, and what obligations follow? The tool turns a 40-hour compliance exercise into a guided 30-minute assessment — with audit-ready reports, verifiable public URLs, and a continuous compliance posture as the result.
The problem AI Risk Check solves
The EU AI Act is the world’s first comprehensive AI regulation, and its central obligations take effect from August 2026. For most companies, compliance begins with a seemingly simple but actually complex task: a complete inventory of all deployed and planned AI systems, each correctly classified by the regulation’s four risk tiers. This classification is not trivial — the Annex III list of high-risk use cases requires a close examination of the specific use, and a misclassified system means either unnecessary effort or a real compliance risk.
Without a tool, this process is laborious: scattered spreadsheets, legal texts that have to be translated, and a result that ages out at the next system change. AI Risk Check structures exactly this process and makes it repeatable.
Article 6 risk assessment, automated
At its core, AI Risk Check runs a guided risk assessment oriented to Article 6 and Annex III of the AI Act. Instead of wading through legal full text, users answer a structured sequence of questions about the specific AI system — purpose of use, affected persons, decision impact — and receive at the end a reasoned classification with reference to the relevant provisions. This reasoning is decisive: a classification without a traceable derivation holds up to no audit. AI Risk Check documents the path to the classification, not just the result.
Team workspaces and collaboration
Compliance is rarely one person’s job. AI Risk Check offers team workspaces in which several participants collaborate — owners from legal, product, and engineering can assess the same systems, assign tasks, and track progress. This reflects reality: classifying an AI system often requires input from several departments, and a tool that supports this collaboration is superior to an isolated single-seat assessment.
Audit-ready reports and verifiable URLs
The tangible result of an assessment is white-label PDF reports that can be passed to auditors, customers, and regulators. Beyond that, AI Risk Check generates verifiable public URLs with which compliance status can be demonstrated to stakeholders in one click — relevant for instance in tenders or supplier checks, where evidence of AI Act compliance is increasingly becoming a condition. This outward verifiability is a growing competitive advantage, not just an obligation met.
Why Innopulse built AI Risk Check
AI Risk Check is not a bought-in product but developed and operated by Innopulse — on the same stack we recommend to clients: Next.js, Supabase, Stripe, EU hosting. This has a double effect. First, the product itself is a reference example of our engineering practice: GDPR-compliant, audit-capable, hardened in production. Second, our AI Act consulting feeds directly from operating this tool — we know the regulation’s requirements not only from the legal text but from the daily use of a tool that structures hundreds of classifications.
How AI Risk Check fits into the compliance journey
A tool alone does not make compliance, and AI Risk Check positions itself honestly: it is the structured entry point and the ongoing documentation layer, not a replacement for expert judgement in complex individual cases. For the majority of SMEs with manageable AI use, it delivers the complete classification and documentation in self-service. Where it gets more complex — high-risk systems with extensive obligations, regulatory grey areas — it meshes seamlessly with Innopulse’s AI Act compliance consulting, which builds the technical documentation, the Article 4 training programme, and the ongoing governance process.
The time pressure is real
The AI Act’s enforcement from August 2026 is not an abstract date. Classifying and documenting an AI portfolio takes time, and the fines — up to 35 million euros or seven percent of global annual turnover for the most serious breaches — make postponing risky. AI Risk Check lowers the entry barrier dramatically: instead of starting a compliance project that demands weeks of preparation, the first system can be classified and documented in half an hour. This low effort for the first step is often the difference between a company that starts in time and one that misses the deadline.
Continuous compliance instead of a snapshot
A widespread misconception is that AI Act compliance is a one-time project — classify once, document once, done. The reality is different: AI systems change, new ones are introduced, purposes of use shift, and each of these changes can affect the classification. AI Risk Check is therefore designed for a continuous compliance posture, not a snapshot. The team workspaces, the versioned documentation, and the verifiable URLs ensure the compliance status stays current and demonstrable at all times. When a system is changed, the assessment can be adjusted without starting over. This ongoing maintenance is the part where manual processes fail — a spreadsheet created at kickoff and never touched again is worthless after the first system change. AI Risk Check keeps the documentation alive.
The Innopulse advantage: tool and consulting from one source
AI Risk Check does not stand alone but is part of a connected offering. For companies with manageable AI use, the tool delivers the complete classification and documentation in self-service. For more complex situations — high-risk systems under Annex III with their extensive set of obligations, regulatory grey areas that demand expert judgement — AI Risk Check meshes seamlessly with Innopulse’s AI Act compliance consulting. This consulting builds the technical documentation under Annex IV, the Article 4 training programme, and the ongoing governance process. The advantage for the customer: tool and consulting come from one source, from people who developed and operate the compliance tool themselves. Where a pure consultancy would first have to find the technical implementation, and a pure tool provider falls short on expert judgement, Innopulse covers both sides.
AI Risk Check is available at ai-risk-check.com. Anyone needing a guided classification or full AI Act compliance implementation can reach Innopulse at info@innopulse.io.