Tomislav Vidakovic

Two decades in regulated industries first banking, then healthcare on the receiving end of compliance regimes. My job, repeatedly, was to make a regulation operational inside a business: read the text, work out what it actually means for us, produce the evidence, and live with the auditor's questions. That translation work is precisely what Veritome does. I have done it manually for twenty years in two of the most heavily regulated sectors in Europe, which means I am not learning the customer's problem I have been the customer.

What I am not is a career software engineer. I could not write code fourteen months ago. I started learning with AI-assisted development tools in the summer of 2025, and after trying out different tools, leaarning from errors and another 3-4 serious projects in the pipeline, I've decided to start my own AI-native architect studio Relay Labs. Veritome is the result of my even boy-like fascination in working out logical solution for everyday pain : a production Next.js and Postgres application 105 data models, 350+ API routes, roughly 1,000 automated tests, ten releases in the last month, built and hosted entirely in the EU. I give checkable numbers deliberately. The point is not that I learned to code; it is that the regulatory logic in this product article-by-article classification, provider versus deployer duties, evidence chains, deadline derivation never went through a game of telephone between a domain expert and an engineering team. It was written by the person who understands the regulation.

...and it's usually a 10-minute fix!

Quick heads-up for anyone here with an AI feature and EU users, because the coverage of this was all about the parts that got delayed.

How are you classifying AI systems under the EU AI Act today?

One thing I've noticed is that many teams understand the broad concepts of the EU AI Act but aren't always sure how to apply them to a specific AI use case.

So I built a small side project to help.

It's a free interactive EU AI Act Classifier that walks through a series of questions and provides an indicative classification to help start governance discussions.