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How to assemble EU AI Act evidence from engineering artifacts

Turn logs, evals, and registry history into Annex IV-style documentation — without legal-only checkbox theater.

AssessGovernance16 min

When you need this

  • Enterprise security questionnaire blocked deal
  • Legal asked for technical documentation you do not have
  • High-risk AI system needs monitoring evidence
  • Need a repeatable quarterly evidence export

Prerequisites

  • Model registry or change log
  • Eval and monitoring outputs
  • Named evidence owner per system

Tools

  • Start with registry + experiment tracking before full deployment automation.

  • Self-host for regulated workloads; cloud for faster pilot.

Steps

  1. 1

    Inventory high-risk systems

    Map each AI system to owner, data sources, and decision impact. Legal validates classification; engineering owns artifact collection.

  2. 2

    Map artifacts to Annex IV sections

    Architecture diagrams, training data summary, eval results, monitoring plan, change history, human oversight description.

  3. 3

    Automate collection where possible

    Quarterly export from MLflow, Langfuse, and CI eval gates into a versioned evidence folder. Prefer links to systems over static PDFs.

  4. 4

    Gap analysis in assessment

    Score completeness; prioritize engineering fixes (missing evals, missing owners) over PDF polish.

Adoption pitfalls

  • Legal writes docs that diverge from how systems actually run
  • One-off PDF dump with no refresh cadence
  • No link from live model version to evidence pack

Adoption checklist

  • Evidence owner named per system
  • Quarterly export automated
  • Gaps tracked in engineering backlog
  • Post-market monitoring plan documented

SEER REAL assessment / sprint

EU evidence readiness is a core assessment output. Sprints close the top engineering gaps (registry, evals, monitoring) before the next questionnaire cycle.

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