I've been talking to a few EU-facing SaaS teams about the AI Act, and the same problem keeps coming up before anyone gets to classification or documentation: nobody has a complete list of the AI they use or ship.

It's usually spread across:

- AI features in the product (chatbot, recommendations, summarization)

- Third-party APIs and models someone integrated months ago

- Internal tools (HR screening, support triage, code assistants)

- SaaS products that quietly added AI features

The fields that seem useful to record for each system:

1. What it does and who it affects (users, employees, applicants)
2. Provider vs. deployer role (built in-house or bought)
3. Which model or vendor is behind it
4. Whether people interact with it directly
5. Whether it generates or alters content
6. Rough risk tier under the Act, plus an owner and a review date

Open questions I'd like input on:

- Do you track AI features inside third-party SaaS, or only what you build/integrate yourself?

- Who owns the inventory at your company: legal, security, engineering?

- What did you find hardest to classify?

Disclosure: I'm working on a small tool for this (an AI inventory with risk classification), so I'm partly asking to learn what's actually useful.

Happy to share the field template as a spreadsheet if it helps, no signup.

Hi everyone, I work on Proxima.
AI can help with a lot of daily work, but putting it all together often means juggling different tools.
We’re building Proxima to bring those needs into one place: working with documents, drafting content, turning meetings into useful notes, and connecting AI to the applications you already use.
Think of a typical working day: understand a lengthy report, prepare a meeting, review the discussion afterwards, and draft the follow-up. That’s the kind of everyday work we want Proxima to help with.
Alongside that practical focus, privacy and European infrastructure are central to our approach. You should be able to use AI at work while keeping control over your organisation’s data.
Developers can also connect their own workflows through our API.
If you’re looking for a European AI workspace for your organisation, take a look at Proxima.
What would it need to handle for you to use it every day?

China has THE manufacturing advantage over the rest of the world, we all know that. I’m trying to explore the possibility that robotics + this bullrun of autonomous robotics will bring renewed energy into EU manufacturing. The EU has a strong robotics legacy and we have a lot of old and new blood in the robotics game. Germany alone has startups with billions invested in them like Neura (biggest ever fundraising in robotics in the world i think), Agile robotics, Robco... And these are only the new ones focusing on autonomous robots, there are legacy companies like KUKA, ABB and Staubli who have decades of expertise and success in the niche.

Robotics are among the most specialized goods on the market with only China, US and EU doing the bulk of production. Robotics stands to be the sort of advanced manufacturing that tightens the manufacturing gap for us, and narrows down the manufacturing gap with China + gives us something to export to the rest of the world. And this is before we consider the possibility of robots automating manufacturing on their own in the future.

A lot of our most competitive industries like electronics, automobiles, and other advanced machinery stand to gain from this robotics rush. I think the EU is fully poised for an economical resurgence, we just need to not let this opportunity slip.

What do you think?