Ireland has an AI regulator now. Your business needs a record, not a panic.
The AI Office of Ireland became operational in August 2026. If your business uses AI, even just ChatGPT and a chatbot, some duties already apply to you. Which ones depends on how you use it. Most of them are simpler than the headlines suggest.
The AI Governance Setup gets your policies, disclosures, staff handbook and records in place. No audit required, no legal-speak, no 40-page compliance binder nobody reads.
You don't need the full AI Audit. You just want to be able to answer one question.
You're already using AI, or about to, and you want to answer this with confidence:
If the regulator, a client, or your own team asked how you use AI, could you show them?
Right now, for most Irish SMEs, the honest answer is no. Staff are using ChatGPT on personal accounts. There's a chatbot on the website with no AI disclosure. Nobody has been trained, and nothing is written down.
That's not a crisis. It's a checklist. This service works through it with you.
Five pieces, and then you're done.
Four steps, and most of the work is ours.
- Call 45 minutes on how you use AI
- Build we draft the pack
- Walkthrough we take you through it
- Handover yours to show anyone who asks
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AI Tool Inventory. We map every AI tool in use across your business, including the ones you don’t know about yet. You get a single register showing what’s in use, who uses it, and what data goes into it.
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AI Usage Policy. A short, plain-English policy your team will actually read. What’s allowed, what’s not, and what to do when they’re unsure. Written for your business, not copied from a template.
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Transparency Disclosures. Where the rules apply, people need to be told when they are interacting directly with an AI system, and certain categories of generated or manipulated content need labelling. We work out which cases apply to you, then write and place the wording.
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AI Employee Handbook and Training Guide. A written handbook for your team, plus a training guide you can run yourself. What the approved tools are for, what data never goes near them, how to check AI output before it goes out, and who to ask when nobody is sure. Article 4 requires staff working with AI to be trained, and this is the material you train them with. Comes with a completion record for your file.
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Governance Register and Review Rhythm. Everything documented in one place, plus a simple quarterly review process so it stays current as your AI use grows. A practical record of the tools, rules and review process you have in place.
What most businesses forget.
AI compliance isn't one law. The Governance Setup also covers the pieces that catch businesses out in practice.
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GDPR overlap. The AI Act’s big deadlines are mostly 2027, but GDPR is fully in force now. If AI makes automated decisions about people, Article 22 GDPR already applies, and high-risk processing may need a Data Protection Impact Assessment. We flag both.
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Vendor settings and contracts. Consumer AI accounts can train on your data. Business tiers with a data processing agreement generally don’t. We check every tool in your inventory and tell you exactly which accounts to upgrade.
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Copyright and ownership. Your AI policy covers who owns AI-assisted work and how client materials can be used. Clients ask this before regulators do.
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An incident log. A simple record of anything that goes wrong with AI and how you handled it. Cheap to keep, and it shows you take this seriously if anyone ever asks.
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Tender and insurance readiness. Cyber insurance renewals and public tenders are already asking AI questions. Your governance pack becomes the answer you paste in.
The AI Governance Starter.
Everything above, done for you, in one fixed-price engagement. One assessment, one pack of documents, and a clear record of how your business uses AI.
- AI Governance Assessment
- AI Tool Inventory
- AI Risk Assessment
- AI Policy
- Staff Acceptable Use Policy
- Approved AI Tools Register
- AI Employee Handbook
- Staff Training Guide
- AI Governance Report
- Q&A session
- 30-day follow-up
Optional extra: we run the training for you. Everything above is included at €350, and you run the training yourself with the handbook and trainer guide. If you would rather we did it, we take your team through the policy, what the handbook covers, and what everyone needs to be doing to stay compliant, on a Zoom or video call. That is €500 in total. You get the completion record either way.
Want a proper team session rather than a walkthrough? That is Team Training and Workshops, from €750.
Then €100 a year to review it. Both the rules and your tools keep moving. A yearly review updates your policy, tool register and disclosures so the pack still describes what you actually do, rather than what you did when you signed it.
The starting price is for a small team. It scales with the size of your business and how many AI tools are in use, and you get a fixed quote before any work starts. No surprises.
Not sure you need it yet? Check if the EU AI Act applies to your business →
Practical readiness, not legal advice.
If your business builds AI systems, operates in a high-risk category, or needs a legal opinion, we'll tell you straight and point you to a solicitor who specialises in this. For the vast majority of Irish SMEs using everyday AI tools, that's not you, and this service covers what you need.
We only use ChatGPT. Does this really apply to us?
Yes. The AI literacy requirement applies to every organisation deploying AI, regardless of size or risk level. It has been in force since February 2025. The good news: for a business like yours, compliance is a training session and a policy, not a legal project.
Is this the same as the AI Audit?
No. The AI Audit finds opportunities to save time and money with AI. This service puts governance in place for the AI you already use. Governance is included in every AI Audit, but if compliance is all you need right now, start here.
What happens if we do nothing?
Nothing dramatic, most likely. But the questions get asked eventually, by a client, a tender, or your own team, and "we never got around to it" is a weak answer. Getting organised now takes an afternoon of your time. Doing it under pressure later costs a lot more.
Can we upgrade to the full audit later?
Yes, and the governance work carries straight over. Nothing is wasted.
The official sources, so you can read them yourself.
We would rather point you at the primary material than ask you to take our word for it.
- European Commission: AI literacy, questions and answers
Article 4 requires providers and deployers to take measures for a sufficient level of AI literacy, taking account of technical knowledge, experience, education, training, context and the people affected.
- European Commission: transparency obligations for AI-generated content
Article 50 transparency duties apply from 2 August 2026 to certain AI systems, interactions, and generated or manipulated content. They are not a blanket rule for every AI-assisted output.
- European Commission: code of practice on transparency of AI-generated content
Covers marking and labelling in specified cases, including deepfakes, certain public-interest text, and interactive AI systems.
- Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: EU AI Act
The Irish government overview of the Act and the role of the AI Office of Ireland.
- Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: AI Office of Ireland established
The official announcement that the AI Office of Ireland was expected to be operational by 2 August 2026.
Any question of full compliance, legal defence, regulator acceptance or sector-specific sufficiency should go to an Irish solicitor or the relevant specialist. We will tell you when you have reached that point.
Compliance isn't the hard part of AI. It's the part you do once, properly, and stop worrying about.
No obligation, and you'll leave with your gap list either way.