EU AI Act · Article 50 + GDPR · For AI agent builders
Is your AI agent setup ready to ship?
The 2-minute self-check — for founders and builders running AI agents (support bots, email agents, multi-agent teams) that touch users in the EU. No sign-up, no email.
I spun up a plain agent setup myself — a support bot and an email agent, on a free AI key — and watched it trip on the same three gaps — the ones a demo never shows you, because a demo is built to work. Built by a compliance specialist with a background in law (four years in-house) who also reads the code, so this checks what a regulator would look for, not a generic template.
// why this matters now
The EU AI Act's transparency rules (Article 50) have applied since 2 August 2026 — live right now. A transition applies to marking generated content: systems already on the market before that date must comply with Article 50(2) by 2 December 2026. If people in the EU use your agents, the rules reach you today. Non-compliance falls under the AI Act's fine regime — up to €15,000,000 or 3% of worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher (Article 99(4)); for SMEs, start-ups and small mid-caps the lower of the two applies. (The €35M / 7% ceiling you may have seen is for prohibited practices under Article 5, not Article 50.)
How to read it: the six questions are grouped into the three gaps. If your agents don't send email, just answer "Yes" to the last two and they won't count against you. A single "No" or "Not sure" means you are at least partly exposed.
Nature of this document. This is a free compliance self-assessment (indicative) on EU AI Act Art. 50 + GDPR. It does NOT constitute legal advice, a legal opinion, or representation reserved to licensed attorneys, and does not replace a designated DPO. Legal deadlines can shift (Digital Omnibus, 2026) — reconfirm on the official source. Review your result with a legal counsel / DPO before official use.