Ask the AI Act
Vera - a grounded assistant that answers questions on the EU AI Act from the Act's own text, cites the Article, and says so honestly when the Act does not cover it.
The EU AI Act is long, dense, and phased in over several years. Getting a straight answer usually means reading legal drafting, and generic AI tools will confidently invent one. Vera does the opposite: it retrieves the relevant parts of the Act, answers strictly from them, cites the Article behind every point, and refuses when the text does not cover the question.
This is the same approach behind my Regulatory Intelligence Assistant (RIA), applied to a different body of law. RIA grounds its answers in Ofgem's energy licence conditions; Vera grounds them in the EU AI Act. The discipline is identical in both: answer only from the source, cite it, and refuse rather than guess. Building it twice, across energy regulation and AI law, is the point - the method travels.
See it in action
A short walkthrough: a real question, a grounded and cited answer, and the exact Article text on demand. Informational only, not legal advice.
How it works
- Retrieve the most relevant passages of the EU AI Act for the question.
- Answer using only those passages, never the model's general memory.
- Cite the Article behind each point, and let you expand any citation to read the verbatim text.
- Refuse, clearly, when the Act does not cover the question.
What makes it trustworthy
- Grounded in the Act
- Cites every point
- Exact text on demand
- Refuses out of scope
The last one matters most. A confident wrong answer about the law is worse than no answer, so Vera is built to say "that isn't in the Act" rather than fill the gap.
Answer only from the source, cite it, and refuse rather than guess.
Honest limits
Vera is an informational demo, not legal advice. It is grounded in the public consolidated text of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 and reflects the current text only. It covers the EU AI Act alone, so questions about other frameworks (for example NIST or the OECD principles) are correctly declined as out of scope.
What I would add next
- Hybrid keyword-and-meaning search, to catch exact terms as well as concepts.
- Version and as-of-date awareness for the Act's phased obligations, as RIA already does for energy.
- Further sources, such as gas regulation, NIST and the OECD principles, with careful cross-framework comparison.
Built by Scott Marshall. See RIA, its energy-regulation companion, or get in touch.