AI Act Provider vs Deployer Obligations: What Your Organization Actually Needs to Do
The EU AI Act assigns fundamentally different obligations to providers and deployers. Misclassify your role and you'll build the wrong compliance program from day one.
"Priverion gave us centralized visibility across all our entities, so we stopped guessing which obligations applied where and started actually managing compliance."
Head of Data Protection
a healthcare provider, multi-entity healthcare group, 100% vendor risk assessment coverage
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Operationalize AI Act Obligations Across Every Entity Without the Spreadsheet Chaos
Whether you're classified as a provider, deployer, or both across different subsidiaries, Priverion gives your compliance team centralized control and audit-ready evidence.
Provider + Deployer
AI Register for EU AI Act Readiness
Catalog every AI system across your group with role classification (provider, deployer, or both), risk tier, and responsible entity, all in one register. No more chasing business units to find out who's using what.
AI-assisted classification flags when a subsidiary's modifications push them from deployer to provider under Article 25, so you catch reclassification triggers before regulators do.
5 roles
in the AI value chain tracked per system (provider, deployer, importer, distributor, authorized representative) as defined in Article 3, EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689)
Provider Obligations
Technical Documentation and Conformity Management
Providers of high-risk AI must maintain documentation covering 11 specific technical areas under Annex IV. Priverion structures this into guided workflows with version control, so your team fills in the substance while the platform handles the structure and audit trail.
Generate audit-ready evidence packages for supervisory authorities in minutes, not the weeks it takes when documentation lives across SharePoint folders and email threads.
200+ hours saved
A medical technology company saved 200+ hours preparing ISO 27001 documentation using Priverion's structured evidence workflows. The same approach is now extended to AI Act technical documentation
Deployer Obligations
Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments and Human Oversight
Deployers using high-risk AI in employment, credit scoring, or law enforcement must conduct fundamental rights impact assessments before deployment. Priverion's AI-assisted DPIA and FRIA workflows guide your team through the assessment with structured templates and risk scoring, so nothing gets missed.
Assign human oversight responsibilities per system, track competency requirements, and monitor for incidents, all linked back to the specific AI system in your register. AI assists the drafting; your team makes every decision.
100% coverage
A healthcare provider achieved 100% vendor risk assessment coverage using Priverion. The same centralized approach applied to AI deployer obligations across entities
Group-Wide Visibility
Cross-Entity AI Compliance Dashboards
One subsidiary is a provider. Another deploys the same system. A third modified it enough to trigger reclassification. Without centralized visibility, you're managing three different compliance approaches in three different spreadsheets, hoping they're consistent.
Priverion's board-ready dashboards show AI Act compliance status per entity, per system, per risk tier. Your CISO and Head of Legal see the same picture, and it's always current.
50+ entities
Priverion serves enterprise groups managing 50+ entities across multiple jurisdictions with centralized compliance oversight
Incident + Monitoring
Incident Management and Regulatory Reporting
Both providers and deployers must report serious incidents involving high-risk AI systems. Providers additionally need post-market monitoring systems. Priverion connects incident workflows to your AI register, so when something goes wrong, you know which system, which entity, and which obligations apply.
Automated log retention ensures deployers meet the minimum 6-month requirement for system-generated logs, without manual backup processes.
24/7 support
Data Sovereignty
Swiss-Hosted Infrastructure With No Data Used for AI Training
Your AI Act compliance records (risk assessments, technical documentation, incident reports) contain some of the most sensitive operational data in your organization. It should not leave European jurisdiction, and it should never train someone else's model.
All Priverion data processing happens within Swiss infrastructure. AI-assisted features help your team draft faster and catch gaps, but no customer data is ever used for model training. AI assists, humans decide.
0 data points
used for model training. Priverion's transparency commitment. All AI outputs require human review before becoming compliance records.
Measurable results from real customers
What changes when you stop managing privacy in spreadsheets
200+
Hours saved on ROPA management
A medical technology company redirected 200+ hours from manual ROPA updates to ISO 27001 preparation, completing certification 3 months ahead of schedule.
60%
Lower cost vs. OneTrust
Aircraft manufacturer achieved enterprise-grade group compliance at a fraction of the cost, with pricing based on entities, not per-user expansion traps.
3 mo.
Ahead of schedule on ISO 27001
A medical technology company used Priverion's audit-ready evidence packages to accelerate ISO 27001 certification by three months.
"We went from chasing business units for weeks to having a live, accurate ROPA across every subsidiary. Our Friday afternoons are ours again."
Data Protection Officer, Aircraft manufacturer (after 6 months with Priverion)
Why mid-market privacy teams are switching from OneTrust
Enterprise-grade compliance shouldn't require an enterprise-grade budget or a six-month implementation.
Typical enterprise platform experience
Per-user, per-module pricing
Costs balloon as you onboard subsidiaries. Budget conversations happen every quarter, not every year.
US-hosted infrastructure
Post-Schrems II, US hosting creates a compliance liability for the very tool meant to manage your compliance. Additional SCCs required for your compliance platform itself.
200+ shallow integrations
Hundreds of connectors that need constant maintenance. Most teams use five or fewer but pay the complexity cost of all 200.
6+ month implementation
Dedicated implementation consultants, extensive training programs, and ongoing professional services budgets before you see any value.
Feature overload
ESG modules, ethics hotlines, cookie consent, GRC: you're paying for a platform that does everything, when you need one that does privacy management exceptionally well.
The Priverion experience
Predictable per-company pricing
Based on number of entities and organizational size, not per-user or per-module. Onboard your entire team without watching costs escalate.
Swiss-built, Swiss-hosted
All data processed within Swiss infrastructure. European data residency guaranteed. Your compliance platform shouldn't create its own compliance problem.
Deep integrations that matter
Focused integrations with HR, procurement, and IT asset management systems, the workflows that actually drive privacy compliance. No maintenance overhead from connectors you'll never use.
Operational in weeks
Intuitive UX designed for privacy professionals, not IT departments. A medical technology company saved 200+ hours in ISO 27001 preparation, starting within weeks of onboarding.
A medical technology company, ISO 27001 preparation phase
Purpose-built for privacy
ROPA, DPIA/TIA, vendor risk, incident management, DSR handling, and AI Act readiness: everything a group DPO needs. Nothing they don't. We don't cover ESG, ethics hotlines, or cookie consent, and that's intentional.
100%
ROPA recertification rate
A Swiss insurer, fully automated
100%
vendor risk coverage
A healthcare provider
24/7
DPO support across entities
200+
hours saved on ISO 27001 prep
A medical technology company
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Stop managing privacy in spreadsheets. Start managing it as a program.
See how Priverion gives multi-entity organizations group-wide compliance visibility, automated recertification, and audit-readiness, in a 30-minute walkthrough tailored to your structure.
"We went from chasing business units across subsidiaries for ROPA updates to fully automated recertification. Our DPO finally focuses on strategic privacy work instead of spreadsheet maintenance."
Privacy Lead, Aircraft manufacturer
60% reduction in compliance admin time within the first 6 months
Weeks
Time to go live
Avg. across customer base
200+
Hours saved on ISO 27001
A medical technology company, certification prep
100%
Vendor risk coverage
A healthcare provider, first year
