Enterprises must prove what their AI did, when, and why — by 2 August 2026.
The ProblemThe EU AI Act turns compliance into a default operating cost for every enterprise that deploys generative or agentic AI. Article 26 obligations apply across all 27 member states from 2 August 2026 — and there is, today, no production-ready evidence stack.
Articles 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 26, 50, 72, 73 require human oversight, traceability, transparency, post-market monitoring, and incident reporting. Penalties are tiered, but the upper band is existential for any operator at scale.
The market is shipping LLM features faster than it is shipping evidence. Existing observability, logging, and AI-gateway tools satisfy none of the Act's evidentiary requirements end-to-end.
Application logs can be edited, replayed, or quietly dropped. Regulators, auditors, and counterparties need cryptographic attestation: artefacts that cannot be denied — issued at the moment of decision.