Turn a dense law into a two-page policy brief.
The version your team can actually act on — what it does, when it takes effect, who's affected, and what to do about it.
A new law or regulation dropped. It's 80 pages of legalese. You need a brief your operations team, your executives, or your clients can use to make decisions this week. This prompt does the translation without dropping the specifics that matter.
THE PROMPT
Turn the attached law/regulation into a policy brief. Structure it as: **What it does (150 words max)** Plain-English summary. What the law changes. Who it applies to. What behavior it's trying to regulate. **Key dates** - Effective date. - Compliance milestones (with the specific article/section cited). - Enforcement start. **Who's affected** - Bulleted list of specific categories of persons/entities the law reaches. Cite the definition section for each. **New obligations** - Bulleted list. Each obligation gets: one line of what's required, the article/section, and the specific consequence for non-compliance. **Ambiguities worth flagging** - 2-4 bullets on parts of the law that are genuinely ambiguous or leave regulator discretion — with a citation so a lawyer can go read them. **What to do about it** - 3-5 concrete actions this brief's reader should take in the next 30 days. Each action names an owner (by role, not name) and a deadline. Voice: neutral, third-person. Do not add "this is not legal advice" language — the brief itself doesn't purport to be. Do not editorialize about whether the law is good policy. Law attached: [ATTACH PDF] Reader of the brief: [SPECIFY — e.g., "compliance team at a mid-sized SaaS company", "in-house counsel", "operations lead"]
**What it does**
The EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) creates a risk-tiered framework for AI systems sold or used in the EU. General-purpose AI (GPAI) providers must document training data, publish model cards, and — for models above 10²⁵ FLOP — maintain adversarial evaluation and incident reporting. High-risk AI systems (defined in Annex III, e.g., systems used in employment, credit, or public services) require conformity assessment before market entry.
**Key dates**
- Effective date: 1 August 2024 (in force).
- GPAI obligations: 2 August 2025 (new models) / 2 August 2026 (legacy models on the market pre-Aug 2025). Art. 111.
- High-risk provisions: 2 August 2027. Art. 111.
**Who's affected**
- GPAI providers — defined as any entity placing a general-purpose AI model on the EU market (Art. 3, def. 63).
- Providers of high-risk AI systems — Annex III enumerates categories.
- Deployers of high-risk AI systems in an EU workplace — Art. 26.
- Non-EU providers whose systems' outputs are used in the EU — Art. 2(1)(c).
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**What to do about it**
- Compliance lead — audit whether any AI feature we deploy meets Annex III's definition of "high-risk". Due August 20.
- Legal — draft a training-data summary template using the AI Office draft (July 2026 release). Due August 30.
- Product — inventory every third-party GPAI dependency in our stack and confirm each provider's obligation-compliance status. Due September 15.
- Comms — prepare an internal FAQ for the sales team on what to say when EU prospects ask about AI Act compliance. Due September 1.