Deadline: 94 days · 2 August 2026 10 spots left before deadline

Get your AI compliant with EU law in 6 weeks.

For European companies running AI in credit, hiring, healthcare, identity or critical infrastructure: we deliver the full Conformity Assessment package, every document the regulator demands, signed and ready to defend, so you ship past the August 2026 deadline without slowing your roadmap.

Book a Readiness Diagnostic €2,500 Schedule a free 30-minute call

How the Diagnostic works. One week. You hand us your AI inventory. We hand back a full readiness assessment, every system classified against the law, every gap mapped to a specific Article, a prioritised roadmap to close them. If you continue with us for the €18,000 Full Conformity engagement, the Diagnostic price is deducted. If you don't, you keep the report and use it however you want.

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Our AI safety advisor network has personally informed our methodology.

Roman Yampolskiy
Roman Yampolskiy

Associate Professor, University of Louisville. Director, Cyber Security Lab. Author of "Superintelligence".

Toby Walsh
Toby Walsh

Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of AI, UNSW Sydney. Fellow of Australian Academy of Science, ACM, AAAS, AAAI.

Wendell Wallach
Wendell Wallach

Emeritus Chair, Technology and Ethics, Yale. Former Carnegie/Uehiro Senior Fellow. Has advised the United Nations on AI ethics governance.

Alex Polyakov
Alex Polyakov

Co-Founder and CEO, Adversa AI. AI red teaming pioneer. CoSAI Project Governing Board.

Raja Chatila
Raja Chatila

Professor Emeritus of AI, Robotics, IT Ethics, Sorbonne University Paris. Former Chair, IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous Systems.

Alan Winfield
Alan Winfield

Professor of Robot Ethics, University of the West of England Bristol. Co-author of IEEE Ethically Aligned Design framework.

Risto Miikkulainen
Risto Miikkulainen

Associate VP of Evolutionary AI Research, Cognizant. Professor of Computer Science, UT Austin. AAAI and IEEE Fellow.

What this law is

The EU AI Act, explained in 60 seconds.

The European Union passed a law called the EU AI Act. Starting 2 August 2026, if your company uses AI to make decisions about credit, hiring, healthcare, identity, education, or critical infrastructure, you have to prove you built that AI responsibly. The penalty for not doing so reaches 3% of your global annual revenue.

Proving it means producing a specific set of documents the European Commission has named: a risk management procedure, a data governance file, a human oversight design, a technical specification, and a quality management plan. Then signing a declaration that the documents are accurate. Most companies in scope have produced none of them.

The law applies to your company even if it is not based in Europe. If your customers are in the EU, or your AI affects EU users, or your output is used in the EU, you are in scope. The law spells this out in Article 2.

10,000+ companies in scope.

Roughly 85% have not started the documentation work. Most will hit the deadline.

Cost of inaction vs cost of compliance

See your numbers side by side.

Slide your annual revenue. Compare what non-compliance could cost you against what 6 weeks with us costs.

Annual revenue €25,000,000
€1M€100M€500M€1B
Cost of inaction €15,000,000 Maximum Article 99 fine for failing high-risk (Annex III) obligations
60%of your annual revenue
7.2 monthsof revenue, gone
Cost with Better Societies €18,000 Fixed fee · 6 weeks · replaces a €312,000+ Big 4 quote
0.07%of your annual revenue
0.3 daysof revenue
Net protection vs cost of inaction €14,982,000 832× return on every euro invested with us

If those numbers make sense, find your exact exposure in one week with the Diagnostic →

Where we fit

Three ways companies handle this. Only one is right for most.

Compliance software gives you a dashboard. Big 4 Consulting gives you an associate-led retainer. We sit deliberately in the gap.

Compliance software

Vanta · Drata · Holistic AI · Credo
€25,000per year, recurring

A dashboard that tracks which controls your team has and has not built. Useful for ongoing monitoring. But it does not write your technical file, your risk assessment, or your oversight design. You still have to find a human to do that work.

Better Societies

Done-for-you, fixed fee
€18,000fixed · 6 weeks · not recurring

We produce every document the law requires. You hand the package to your auditor or your enterprise customer. We deliver in 6 weeks, not 6 months, because we have done it before and we have templates that already cover 80% of the work.

Big 4 advisory

PwC · Deloitte · EY · KPMG
€300,000+3 to 6 months

A team of associates billed by the hour, scoped twice before you see an invoice, three to six months to complete. Built for Fortune 500 budgets. Overkill for most companies and far slower than the deadline allows.

Pricing

Pick the engagement that matches where you are.

01 / Diagnostic

Readiness Diagnostic

Start here if you are not sure whether the law applies to you, or which of your AI systems it applies to.

€2,500
Fixed · 1 week
  • An inventory of every AI system in your company, classified against the law
  • A clear answer on which of your systems are high-risk and which are not
  • A gap analysis of what compliance work each high-risk system needs
  • A prioritised roadmap with cost and time estimates for each gap
  • A 30-minute walkthrough call with Adrien Harrison to review the report

If you continue to the full engagement, the €2,500 is deducted from the €18,000, so the Diagnostic is effectively free.

Book the Diagnostic, €2,500
02 / Full Conformity

Full Conformity Engagement

If you know the law applies to you and you need the documentation, signed and ready to submit.

€312,000€18,000
Fixed · 6 weeks · 94% less than Big 4
  • Risk Management documentation for every high-risk system (Article 9)
  • Data governance file covering training data, bias, provenance (Article 10)
  • Human oversight design wiring people into your AI workflow (Article 14)
  • Technical Documentation file your auditor or customer reads (Annex IV)
  • Quality Management System covering operations and updates (Article 17)
  • Final Declaration of Conformity, signed and ready to submit (Article 47)

50% on signature · 25% at week 3 · 25% on final delivery. Full refund if scoping reveals the work is out of scope. See our full guarantee below.

Start Full Conformity
03 / Enterprise

Enterprise Custom

Multiple AI systems, multiple jurisdictions, or board-level briefings required.

From €30,000
Quoted · 8 to 12 weeks
  • Coordination across four or more AI systems in a single engagement
  • Multi-jurisdiction mapping (EU, UK, US states, APAC where relevant)
  • Executive briefings for C-suite and board, prepared and delivered
  • Direct liaison with your in-house counsel or external law firm
  • Eligible for our Ongoing Compliance Monitoring retainer (priced separately)

Quote returned within 2 business days of the scoping call.

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Inside the €18,000 engagement

What you receive, and what each piece would cost from a Big 4 firm.

The Full Conformity engagement bundles six core deliverables and three included extras. Big 4 firms charge for each one separately, on hourly retainers, with associate teams that re-scope twice before you see a final invoice.

Risk Management System (Article 9)Risk register, mitigation measures, residual risk scoring per high-risk system
€60,000+at Big 4
Data Governance File (Article 10)Training data documentation, bias monitoring, provenance, retention policy
€45,000+at Big 4
Human Oversight Design (Article 14)Where humans intervene, override authority, escalation paths, logging
€35,000+at Big 4
Technical Documentation (Annex IV)Architecture, model cards, evaluation, deployment, 80+ page submission file
€90,000+at Big 4
Quality Management System (Article 17)Operations, testing, deployment, post-market monitoring, incident response
€40,000+at Big 4
Declaration of Conformity (Article 47)Final signed declaration, CE marking instructions, EU database registration guide
€20,000+at Big 4
Included extra · 12-month auditor-acceptance guaranteeIf your auditor rejects our docs in the first 12 months for AI Act reasons, we revise at no extra cost
€8,000typical
Included extra · Customer vendor questionnaire pre-fillsTwo enterprise procurement questionnaires answered with citations
€4,000typical
Included extra · Direct access to Adrien HarrisonFounder-level email and Slack throughout the six weeks, no associate gating
€10,000typical
Comparable Big 4 cost€312,000+
€18,000Your investment
€294,000+
Saved versus the Big 4 line-item equivalent
6× faster
6 weeks fixed, not 6 months of associate retainer
94% less
Of the Big 4 cost, with no re-scoping cycles

Ongoing Compliance Monitoring, optional retainer. The AI Act keeps moving. Harmonised standards finalise through 2026 and 2027. New AI Office guidance lands every quarter. Member states pass implementing acts. Our Ongoing Compliance Monitoring service (Article 72 Post-Market Monitoring Support) keeps your documentation in lockstep: monthly regulatory-update digests, quarterly documentation reviews and updates, customer and auditor questionnaire-response support, and priority founder access. Pricing scales with your number of high-risk systems. We discuss it on the discovery call, no pressure to take it, no penalty if you don't.

How it works

6 weeks. 6 deliverables. Every week ends with a signed document.

Week 1

Inventory & risk class

We map every AI system in your company against the law's risk categories.

Week 2

Risk management

We document the risks each high-risk system creates and the controls that mitigate them.

Week 3

Oversight & data

We design where humans intervene in your AI, and audit the data you trained it on.

Week 4

Technical file

We produce the multi-section technical specification your auditor or customer reads.

Week 5

Quality management

We document how you build, test, deploy, and update AI systems on an ongoing basis.

Week 6

Conformity & handover

Signed declaration, submission package, sign-off meeting with your team.

Each week ends with a 30-minute review call and a signed deliverable. Adrien Harrison, our founder and CEO, personally reviews and approves every document before it leaves our hands. No associates. No handoffs.

Conformity guarantee

If we don't deliver, you don't pay.

We offer the strongest guarantee on the EU AI Act compliance market. Three commitments, in writing, backed by a money-back clause in the engagement contract.

1 · Delivery on schedule

If we don't deliver every document on the engagement spec sheet by week six, you get a full refund of the second 50% payment. No arguments.

2 · Acceptance by your auditor

If your auditor, notified body, or enterprise customer rejects our documentation in the first twelve months for AI Act compliance reasons, we revise it at no extra cost until accepted.

3 · Out-of-scope refund

If our discovery call reveals the engagement is out of scope for what we deliver, for example, you're a deployer not a provider, we refund your deposit, no questions asked.

Who's signing your documents
Adrien Harrison

Adrien Harrison

Founder & CEO · Better Societies

Forbes-featured serial entrepreneur. AI-safety strategist. New York City.

Specialised in AI safety, deep-tech regulation, and responsible-innovation governance. Has worked with founders, investors, researchers, and policymakers from 50+ countries since 2015.

Every Better Societies engagement is led by Adrien personally. Documentation is reviewed and signed by him before delivery. There are no associates, no handoffs, no name partners who appear only in the contract.

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What this looks like

Three demonstrative engagements. Real mechanics, example companies.

Real client engagements are confidential under NDA. The three case studies below walk through what happens when companies matching three common profiles engage Better Societies, with the actual savings calculated against named alternatives.

Fintech · Series B

How a 180-person Amsterdam fintech with three high-risk credit systems would save €280,000 and four months.

Their alternatives: a €380,000 PwC quote over four months, or a Vanta dashboard that does not write the technical file. Better Societies delivers the same work in six weeks for €18,000, leaving engineering free to keep shipping product.

Read the full case study → HR-tech · Pre-Series A

How a 22-person Berlin candidate-screening startup would unblock a €500,000 enterprise contract in six weeks.

A DAX-listed customer requires AI Act documentation in their procurement form. Series A diligence is asking the same questions. Six weeks of Better Societies work delivers the technical file plus an investor-ready compliance summary, closing both at once.

Read the full case study → Partnership · Law firm

How an 8-attorney Dublin privacy law firm would add €40,000 in recurring revenue without hiring.

Their clients keep asking about the AI Act. Hiring a compliance engineer costs €130,000 per year. Referring to Better Societies pays €5,100 per client across the engagement and the retainer, with twelve hours of partner time per referral.

Read the full case study →
Questions

5 questions we hear most often.

Does this law apply to my company if we are not based in Europe?
Yes, if any of these is true: your AI system is sold or used in the European Union, your customers or their users are in the EU, or the output of your AI is used in the EU. A US fintech serving European borrowers, a UK HR platform with German customers, an Asian healthcare-AI firm with EU clinics, all are in scope. The law specifies this in Article 2.
How do I know if my AI is high-risk?
Two ways. First, if your AI is used as a safety component of a regulated product, medical devices, machinery, vehicles, it is high-risk by default. Second, if your AI makes decisions about credit, hiring, healthcare, identity, education, critical infrastructure, migration, or justice, it is high-risk by category. The Readiness Diagnostic gives you a definitive classification across every AI system in your company in one week.
How are the fines actually calculated?
Three tiers. €35 million or 7% of global revenue for the most serious violations, using AI in prohibited ways. €15 million or 3% of global revenue for failing to meet high-risk obligations, which is what most companies face. €7.5 million or 1% of global revenue for incorrect information to authorities. The fine is the higher of the fixed cap or the percentage. For a company over €500M revenue, the percentage is what binds.
Why are you 95% cheaper than Big 4?
Two reasons. First, specialisation: we work on the EU AI Act and nothing else, so we have templates that already cover 80% of the documentation a Big 4 firm would draft from scratch. Second, methodology: Big 4 firms staff generalist teams who bill at €350 to €600 per hour. Our six-week engagement is fixed-fee, which works out to roughly €60 per effective hour because Adrien Harrison does the high-judgment work directly. We do one thing. Big 4 does hundreds of things at scale, and you pay for that scale.
What if my AI is not actually high-risk?
Then you have far fewer obligations and the Readiness Diagnostic will tell you that in week one. Most companies have a mix: some systems are high-risk, others are limited-risk (transparency obligations only), others are minimal-risk (basically no obligations). The Diagnostic separates them so you do not over-spend on systems that do not need full conformity work.
Before you commit

Honest disqualification. Better-fit clients save us both time.

This is for you if

  • You build or sell AI that makes decisions about credit, hiring, healthcare, identity, education, infrastructure, migration, or justice
  • You serve EU customers, or have EU users, or your AI output is used in the EU
  • You need the documentation signed and ready before August 2 2026, before your next enterprise deal closes, or before your next funding round
  • You want a fixed price and a fixed timeline, not a Big 4 retainer that re-scopes twice before you see an invoice
  • You have a single decision-maker in the company who can approve scope and sign documents

This is NOT for you if

  • You have not yet built any AI features and want help designing them, that is product work, we don't do it
  • Your AI is purely internal (e.g., grammar checker, code completion) with no EU users or customers, you may not be in scope at all, and the Diagnostic will tell you that
  • You want generic GDPR or SOC 2 dashboard work, see Vanta or Drata for that
  • You want fractional compliance staffing or an ongoing retainer, we do fixed-scope projects
  • You expect to negotiate the deliverable list mid-engagement, our scope is fixed by the spec sheet from day one
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