GAGE, School of Governance and Compliance
Ten questions about your system, and one classification at the end with the exact provisions of the EU AI Act quoted underneath it. Free, no sign-up, no form, no consultation gate. Every star above is a real provision, and clicking one opens it.
Until the Regulation applies in general, Article 113
The field above is the Act itself, parsed from the Official Journal
- Articles
- 119 Articles
- Recitals
- 180 Recitals
- Annexes
- 14 Annexes
- Defined terms
- 70 Defined terms
What this is
A scoping tree that shows its work
Most scope checkers give you a tier and a confident sentence. This one gives you the tier, the provision that produced it, the date it starts to bind, the penalty attached, and the limit of the answer. If it cannot show you the text, it does not make the claim.
Quoted, not paraphrased
Every outcome carries the provisions it rests on, character for character from the Official Journal, with a copy button and a link to the provision's own page.
Current, including the Omnibus
Reads the consolidated text with Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 applied: the two new Article 5 prohibitions, the narrowed safety-component test, and the high-risk dates as they now stand.
Nothing kept
No sign-up, no email gate, no cookie, no record. Your answer path lives in the address bar, which is also how you share or reopen a result.
The tree
Ten questions, in the order the Regulation asks them
Scope before tier, prohibition before classification, classification before duties. A branch that ends early tells you which steps it skipped and why, and lets you carry on anyway.
- 01
Definition, Art. 3(1)
Does it infer outputs from inputs?
- 02
Exclusions, Art. 2
Does an Article 2 carve-out cover it?
- 03
Territory, Art. 2(1)
What connects it to the Union?
- 04
GPAI, Art. 51 and 53
Do you provide the model itself?
- 05
Prohibitions, Art. 5(1)
Does it do anything Article 5 bans?
- 06
Annex I, Art. 6(1)
Is it in or on an Annex I product?
- 07
Section, Art. 2(2)
Which section of Annex I applies?
- 08
Annex III, Annex III
Is it in one of the eight Annex III areas?
- 09
Filter, Art. 6(3)
Does Article 6(3) take it back out?
- 10
Transparency, Art. 50
Does Article 50 ask you to disclose?
Where it can land
Ten outcomes, not four boxes
The risk pyramid has four tiers. A real scope assessment has more endings than that: three ways to be out of scope, two Annex I tracks that carry very different duties, and one Annex III system that is classified and then declassified by Article 6(3).
Each one is written out in full, with its receipts, on the ten outcomes.
The branch other tools miss
An Annex I Section B product is high risk and still outside Chapter III
Article 2(2) is short and decisive: for a high-risk system under Article 6(1) related to a product covered by Section B of Annex I, only Article 6(1), Article 60a and Articles 102 to 112 of this Regulation apply. Aviation, motor vehicles, rail, marine equipment and now machinery run on their sectoral regimes. Read Chapter III onto them and you invent duties the Regulation does not impose, which is why this wizard asks which section you are in.
Article 113
The dates the outcome hands you
One Regulation, six start dates. The wizard prints the one that binds your branch and counts down to it.
2 February 2025
Chapters I and II, the original Article 5 prohibitions
2 August 2025
Chapter V, general-purpose AI model obligations
2 August 2026
The Regulation in general, including Article 50
2 December 2026
Article 5(1)(ba) and (bb), Article 5(1a) and (1b)
2 December 2027
Chapter III for Annex III high-risk systems
2 August 2028
Chapter III for Annex I high-risk systems
The high-risk dates moved with the Digital Omnibus. What happens in August 2026 is set out on the deadline page.
Knowing the tier is the easy half
The EU AI Act Implementation Expert program is the other half: conformity assessment, data governance evidence, human oversight design, and the judgment to defend a classification call to a market surveillance authority.
Educational instrument, not legal advice. Outcomes are likely classifications based on the answers you give and on the consolidated text of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744. The official texts on EUR-Lex are always authoritative.