What companies with 50–500 employees need to know and do right now. Risk classification, compliance timelines, and a practical readiness checklist — written for operators, not lawyers.
Understand how the EU AI Act classifies AI systems — unacceptable, high-risk, limited, and minimal risk — and where your current tools likely fall.
Key deadlines from February 2025 to August 2027. Which obligations apply when — and what mid-market companies should prioritize first.
A practical self-assessment for companies with 50–500 employees. No legal jargon — just the steps your operations team can start this week.
Founder of Remote Native. Two decades across operations, technology, and AI delivery on the operator side — leading engineering and AI programs inside DACH companies in insurance, e-mobility, and industrial settings.
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Why most AI initiatives don't compound into operating leverage — and the six-component framework that fixes this. 38 pages, free.
A decision framework for DACH enterprises choosing among the growing field of GDPR-compliant AI platforms — five criteria that decide fit, and three questions most procurement processes avoid.
Jun 11, 2026The DIHK Digitalisierungsumfrage 2026 of nearly 5,000 companies records a 53% distrust of non-European AI providers — the highest in the EU. Here is how to turn that distrust into a concrete platform selection framework while the EU AI Act timeline is still moving.
Jun 9, 2026Shadow AI breaches cost $670K more than the average, and most breached organisations still have no governance policy. A practical four-stage framework for DACH Mittelstand that governs ungoverned AI without driving it further underground.
Jun 2, 2026The May 2026 Digital Omnibus defers standalone high-risk AI obligations by 16 months — to 2 December 2027. Here is what changed, what did not, and how DACH enterprises should use the extra time without losing it.
May 31, 2026McKinsey finds 74% of organisations rate inaccuracy a relevant AI risk; Accenture finds 77% of executives say AI's benefits depend on trust. Trust isn't a soft issue — it's the hard bottleneck to scaling.
May 17, 2026The OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, mapped to DACH enterprise deployments — what the new attack surfaces actually are, why your existing controls miss them, and the mitigation architecture that satisfies EU AI Act Article 15.
Apr 8, 2026