EU AI Act · Hiring & HR
Using AI to hire? You’re likely in the Act’s high-risk tier. Here’s the clear way through.
If your team uses software to advertise jobs, screen CVs, or rank candidates, the EU AI Act likely applies to you, with real obligations attached. Get the free Starter Kit that turns the regulation into clear, auditable steps you can take this week.
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- Plain language, every claim sourced
- Built for deployers, not vendors
- Free, no enterprise budget required
Grounded in the primary record, the EU AI Act and its Annex III, not in opinion. Every claim traces back to a source you can check, starting with the Act itself on EUR-Lex.
What Signato is
The standard you can actually meet.
A practical intelligence source for AI governance, entering through hiring and HR. We translate what the regulation demands into steps you can take this week, and into evidence you can show when someone asks. The name is Latin for sealed and attested, and that is the whole promise: clear over clever, proof over promises.
Plain over clever
No jargon for its own sake. When a legal term is unavoidable, we define it on the spot.
Proof over promises
Every regulatory claim carries a source. Curated and verified by humans, which is what makes it defensible.
Always “what to do”
Every piece ends in an action. We do not inform for the sake of informing.
Straight on uncertainty
The regulation moves. We say what is known, what is still open, and never fake certainty.
Straight from the Act
We show you the law, not our read of it.
“AI systems intended to be used for the recruitment or selection of natural persons, in particular to place targeted job advertisements, to analyse and filter job applications, and to evaluate candidates.”
Annex III(4)(a), Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the EU AI Act. Read it on EUR-Lex
That single paragraph is the text most AI hiring tools are assessed against. We do not paraphrase the risk away. Every claim in the kit traces back to primary text like this, with the citation attached, so you can check us and cite us instead of taking our word for it.
Inside the free kit
The AI in Hiring Compliance Starter Kit
A lean, plain-language starting point for the person handed this problem without a room full of lawyers. Six parts, each ending in something you can do this week, and each one a thing you can put on the record.
Risk classification check
Work out whether your use of AI in hiring counts as “high-risk” under the EU AI Act, and whether you are a provider or a deployer.
Map each tool against Annex IIIObligations checklist
The high-risk obligations that attach to that classification, in a checklist you can run against what your team already does.
See what is actually yours to doImpact assessment template
A lean fundamental-rights and impact assessment template you can fill in, sized for a real team, not a consultancy.
Start documenting todayVendor due-diligence questions
The questions to put to the vendor that sold you the tool, so you can confirm they have done their part.
Send before your next renewalEvidence log model
An evidence log so you can show your work when a regulator, an auditor, or a candidate asks how a decision was made.
Put your reasoning on the recordWhere this stops, and a lawyer begins
A clear line showing exactly where the kit ends and qualified legal advice is needed. Educational, never a substitute.
Know when to escalateA sample of the work
When the rules move, we tell you straight.
The main high-risk deadline is moving: from 2 August 2026 to 2 December 2027.
Under the Digital Omnibus, the EU provisionally agreed to defer the main high-risk obligations. We did not lead with a panic headline. We told readers it was provisional, pending publication in the Official Journal, that the underlying obligation has not gone away, and what to do with the extra runway. That is a typical edition: what changed, whether it is settled, and the next step.
Source: Council of the EU, 7 May 2026. Read the announcement
When you are ready to act
The free kit shows you what to do. The Toolkit is what you do it in.
Five editable Word and Excel templates, mapped article by article to the EU AI Act: the risk classification, a lean impact assessment, the vendor due-diligence questions, a model card, and an evidence log. The files your team fills in, signs off on, and shows an auditor.
Different counts because they do different jobs: six pieces in the free kit to understand the rules, five files in the Toolkit to comply with them.
Before someone asks
Make AI in hiring something you can attest to.
The rules arrived faster than the playbook. Get the kit, take the steps this week, and keep the evidence on the record, so that when a regulator, an auditor, or a candidate asks, you have an answer.
Sealed. Your kit is ready.
Download it now, below. We’ve also emailed you a copy, plus one clear, sourced note a week. If the email isn’t there shortly, check your spam folder and mark us as safe.
Ready for the editable files your team fills in? See the Toolkit (US$99, one-time).