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Web Summit, LisbonThursday 12 November · Pavilion 2, booth PS6-07
AI governance for regulated firms and their suppliers

Governed AI, and the evidence to prove it

The register, the classification, the assessment, the literacy record and the board pack, with a professional team behind them to keep your AI systems and agents safe and compliant.

Free · No login · Eight questions, three minutes

The cosantio platform dashboard for a sample insurer, showing obligations ready, AI systems by risk class, readiness by system and the items that need attention.
The problem

Regulated firms already use AI in decisions about people

The duties are live, but many firms have no one whose job it is to meet them.

01What they are asked for

  • A register of every AI system in use
  • A risk classification for each system, against Annex III for the sectors they operate in
  • A fundamental rights impact assessment for the high-risk use cases
  • An AI literacy record for staff, a board pack and an audit trail

02Who carries it today

  • A head of risk and compliance who already owns three other regimes
  • The managing director, CIO or CISO
  • The one operations or HR lead who does compliance alongside everything else
  • For a supplier, whoever answers the customer's questionnaire

03What is missing

  • An AI ethics committee or a model-risk team
  • Governance tools priced and built for firms their size
  • The artefacts an auditor asks for, rather than another framework
  • A person who will stand behind the evidence
Regulatory timeline

The calendar is set in law

The AI Act is the deadline most firms know about. For regulated firms it arrives alongside DORA, NIS2, CER and the second Consumer Credit Directive, often from the same supervisors and through the same supply chain.

  1. 02 Feb 2025In forceEU AI Act
    AI literacy duty (Art. 4) and prohibited practices (Art. 5)
  2. 27 Jul 2026AdoptedAI Omnibus
    Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 in force: the high-risk dates are confirmed
  3. 02 Aug 2026In forceEU AI Act
    Transparency duties (Art. 50) and the penalty regime
  4. 20 Nov 20262 weeksCCD2
    The second Consumer Credit Directive reaches consumer lenders across the EU
  5. 02 Dec 202713 monthsEU AI Act
    Annex III high-risk duties: credit, life and health insurance, employment
  6. 17 Jan 202814 monthsDORA
    DORA applies to Irish credit unions
  7. 02 Aug 202821 monthsEU AI Act
    Annex I high-risk duties for AI inside regulated products

Four regimes that overlap through the supply chain

Obligations under the AI Act, NIS2, CER and DORA overlap, and flow down by contract to suppliers, contractors and essential services.

EU AI ActSafe use of AI
  • Literacy and transparency duties apply now
  • High-risk duties from December 2027
  • Applies to deployers as well as builders
NIS2Cybersecurity
  • Reaches suppliers through contracts
  • Board approval and personal liability
CERCritical entity resilience
  • Irish designations under way
  • Operational disruption readiness
DORAFinancial ICT resilience
  • Third-party ICT rules since January 2025
  • Applies to credit unions from January 2028
Platform v1

A platform built for firms with a small governance team

The platform keeps the governance record live, so whenever someone asks, the answer is current and the evidence is in one place.

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01Art. 26 · deployer register

AI Inventory

Every AI system in use, including the unapproved ones, in one maintained register.

02Annex III · Art. 6

Classification

Each system classified against Annex III, with the provider or deployer role recorded and the uncertain cases reviewed by a person. The same answers always give the same result.

03Art. 27

FRIA

A fundamental rights impact assessment for each high-risk system, with cited evidence and documented mitigations.

04Arts. 4 and 26

Evidence Locker & AI Literacy

Versioned governance evidence, and the staff literacy record the Article 4 duty needs.

05Art. 26 · third-party AI

Obligations & Policies

Obligations tracked from a template library, policies mapped to your sector regulator, and due diligence on the third-party AI you rely on.

06Art. 26(6) · log retention

Audit Packs

Board and audit packs generated from the live state of your governance, in language a board can sign and an auditor can read.

Trust layer

  • Hosted on AWSThe platform runs on Amazon Web Services.
  • ISO 27001 and SOC 2Certification under way, for Q1 2027.
  • One source for regulatory datesEvery deadline in the platform comes from a single maintained register.
Services

The platform, with people behind it

Services come first, and the platform is part of every engagement from the first contract.

  1. 01Train
    Masterclass and literacyA board session and role-based literacy that discharge the Article 4 duty and leave a record.
  2. 02Assess
    Exposure assessmentEvery AI system found and classified, the provider or deployer question settled, and a prioritised exposure report.
  3. 03Build
    Implementation bundleInventory, classification, policies, assessments and the first board pack, set up on the platform with training included.
  4. 04Run
    Platform subscriptionThe governance record kept live: obligations tracked, evidence versioned, exports the board can sign.
  5. 05Sustain
    Compliance as a ServiceA fractional AI governance officer with a set number of hours each month: monthly reviews, quarterly board packs and a named person to call.
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A named practitioner on every engagement

Enterprise governance platforms are priced and built for large firms with AI ethics committees, and leave you to run them. Every cosantio engagement comes with a professional team, and a named practitioner, who work with you to keep your AI systems and agents safe and compliant.

Find out where your firm stands

The Scorecard takes eight questions and about three minutes. You get a PDF that sets your firm against every AI Act obligation already in force.