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For my sins, I am an EdTech founder building an AI grading platform. We're increasingly finding European customers asking for bundles of documentation to prove safety/efficacy of our platform.

Looking in to the EU AI Act as a few customers have mentioned it and the burden is collosal. We're a team of 10 and don't have capacity to shift to bureaucracy. Genuinely considering avoiding european sales if this becomes a hard requirement.

Anyone have experience navigating the new compliance reqs / know good platforms for compliance automation?

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binarymax · 2h ago

Can you blame them? To me, an AI grading platform for children seems like it should be regulated.

BenJacob1 · 2h ago

My gripe isn’t “no regulation,” it’s the shape of this one for teams in a sector that’s already stretched. Some of these requirements are so high burden that it will add 10% to our OpEx e.g. data governance/provenance reqs: document sources, bias reviews, copyright posture, retention + redoing this after every model change; quality management system across the company (policies, roles, training, audits); conformity assessment + CE marking, with a third-party review all of which will be costly and slow.

I’m all for protecting students. But in practice this shifts months of team time and serious cash into paperwork before schools even pilot the tool. Big incumbents can eat that but small teams either raise prices, slow down, or skip the EU. That’s the innovation tax I’m worried about especially when schools need better tools now.

binarymax · 2h ago

Sure. This seems a cultural difference between US and EU. I've lived extensively in both. EU is known to be burdensome in terms of tech regulations. Normally I find this egregious. However when children are involved I am far more tolerant of their requirements. 10% OpEx overhead to make sure children are protected seems entirely reasonable to me. If you're not prepared to meet their requirements then skip the EU.

quantified · 1h ago

Seconding this. If you're just a team of 10, you are way too small to take on the responsibility of the thing you're trying to provide. I shudder to think of the educational quality a team of ten will provide to hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren in thousands of different schools.

You're too small for the less-regulated US. Add people to deal with things.

BenJacob1 · 1h ago

You're presenting a false dichotomy between building good products and being capable of fulfiling extremely burdensome (not to mention, expensive) compliance requirements from the EU.

We're perfectly qualified to build the core tech. We're just not paperwork experts. Are you suggesting if we can't do paperwork, we shouldn't build innovative products that improve educational outcomes?

lordkrandel · 2h ago

Yes, AI deals with sensitive informations, and no one has an idea what it stores about it or what will be done with it. Heavy regulations here. Barriers to making profit by exploiting people and their data. That's the EU. A frontier of freedom and freedom costs. You can have your business in the non-free US where you are a puppet of your tech bro guys. Leave what you don't understand alone.

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