Responsible AI Consultancy · Bremen, Germany

AI the European market trusts.

Documented, auditable, aligned with the EU AI Act — and with what your company stands for. The credential that opens the DACH and European market, built on the values that keep you in it.

Foundation

Research, strategy, business

  • DBA in Data Science
  • MBA in Finance
  • M.Sc. Data Science

Depth

AI governance & compliance

  • Certificate “AI: Law, Policy & Governance” — London School of Economics
  • Certified AI Compliance Manager (IHK)

Practice

Digital transformation

  • 20+ years in digitalization projects
  • EU-native, fluent in US business context

Why this matters for you

01

The EU AI Act reaches you

Scope follows the output, not your office. A company with no EU entity, staff, or servers is still in scope if its system is placed on the EU market — or if its outputs are used in the EU. The same extraterritorial logic you learned with GDPR now applies to AI.

02

Your customers will ask first

Even where a regulator never calls, EU buyers write AI Act obligations straight into procurement contracts. Conformity, documentation, and an EU authorised representative become line items in the deal — and a missing answer stalls the sale.

03

Values are the differentiator

In European procurement, demonstrable Responsible AI is a trust signal, not overhead. Fairness, explainability, and clear accountability are what separate a vendor that closes from one that gets a second round of questions.

04

Sustainability is in scope too

ESG and CSRD expectations increasingly cover the energy and footprint of AI workloads. Integrating that early turns a future reporting burden into part of your European license to operate.

Europe isn’t a wall to get over. It’s a market that rewards companies who can prove their AI is trustworthy — and we make that proof documented and auditable.

— Dr. Valentin José Mayr · Founder

The timeline

With the provisional Digital Omnibus on AI agreement of 7 May 2026, key high-risk obligations move later. Formal adoption by Parliament and Council is expected in mid-2026.

As of: 7 May 2026
Feb 2025

Prohibited AI practices under Art. 5 are enforceable — social scoring, manipulative systems, certain biometric uses.

Aug 2026

Deployer transparency obligations (Art. 50) apply — disclosing AI interactions and AI-generated content to people in the EU. Date holds.

Dec 2026

Provider watermarking / machine-readable marking of AI-generated content under Art. 50(2). Shortened delay.

Dec 2027

High-risk systems under Annex III — hiring, credit scoring, education, critical infrastructure. Deferred from Aug 2026.

Aug 2028

Embedded high-risk AI under Annex I — medical devices, machinery, regulated products. Deferred from Aug 2027.

The extra time is a preparation window, not an all-clear. The requirements aren’t getting softer — and your EU customers, investors, and partners are already asking how you’ll meet them.

Working together

Three ways to work with us

Foundation

Strategy and standing. RAI strategy, governance basics, EU AI Act status and role determination.

from €18,000

4–6 weeks

Transformation

RAI as differentiation. Incident management, continuous improvement, external transparency reporting.

from €60,000

6+ months

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Find your path

The same services, framed for your situation. Start where you fit:

What sets us apart

More than advice — your methodical partner in Europe

Research meets practice

DBA in Data Science, certified AI Compliance Manager, 20+ years of hands-on digitalization. Recommendations are research-backed — and workable on Monday morning.

Our own method: waveTest

Fairness, explainability, data quality, and compliance mapping as reproducible test procedures. Results you can defend — not gut feeling in a slide deck.

EU-native, US-fluent

Based in Germany, working Europe-wide, and used to translating between US business reality and European regulatory expectation — including the practicalities of an EU authorised representative.

Start here

Not sure whether the EU AI Act applies to you? That’s the first thing worth knowing.

Your next step

Know where you stand — not as a pitch, but as a clear position assessment.