Naaia strengthens its solution to ensure organizations’ compliance with the AI Act

On March 13th 2024, the European Parliament adopted the AI Act, a landmark piece of legislation that introduces a common legal framework for managing the risks associated with artificial intelligence. A formal vote without discussion is scheduled for April 22nd to approve the AI Act.

Naaia, the first centralised compliance and risk management solution for AI systems (AIS), will be integrating 6 new key functionalities on April 15th in response to the accelerating need to operationalize compliance and risk management for AIS. They are designed to meet three main objectives: integrating the final and official version of the AI Act, refining responsibility management and strengthening Naaia Core, the action plan module.

Nathalie Beslay, co-founder and CEO of Naaia, comments: “With the adoption of the AI Act, organizations are facing a major turning point in their compliance objectives. They need to define their regulatory tactics without delay and implement operational models for managing artificial intelligence, while some deadlines are coming up very quickly, such as the prohibited AI systems at the end of the year. By integrating the final version of the AI Act now, Naaia is responding to the need to move ‘quickly and well’ in terms of the virality and desirability of AI for organizations. This pioneering initiative demonstrates our commitment to supporting businesses in the ongoing regulatory transformation and accelerating their adoption of trusted AI without holding back innovation or hampering the organization“.

Côme Sauzay, co-founder and COO of Naaia, adds: “With Naaia, our mission is to reverse regulatory obligations into actions. In other words, we minimize our customers’ efforts to achieve their compliance targets. Today, we’re taking our mission one step further by adding 6 new features to our solution. They aim to provide an even better operational response, with optimized action plans and more detailed management, requiring minimal effort from the teams. Naaia is proud to support its customers in their compliance efforts and to contribute to this major transformation”.

Naaia‘s customers – including 2 major CAC 40 companies – will now benefit from :

AI Act integration – the AI Act will be integrated into the platform via the qualification engine, action plans and templates. Naaia‘s customers will therefore be able to begin the process of achieving rapid and optimum compliance with this new regulation, at the same time as with all the global regulations that the solution already covers;

A more granular governance and management thanks to :
- a distribution of actions by phase of the AIS lifecycle: design & conception, development, deployment, operation ;
- management of group-level responsibilities – Naaia will enable strategic and governance choices to be flexibly transposed to AIS management, by deploying actions by phase and by entity or department.

a reinforced mechanism within Naaia Core, Naaia’s action plan module, to enable them to achieve the compliance target while limiting their efforts thanks to :
- the integration of templates – Naaia offers more than 50 templates in various forms and for all relevant actions, with the aim of supporting teams in accelerating responses to action plans;
- the mutualisation of core actions (common actions) between all the AIS, enabling key actions to be grouped together for all the AIS in the group and to meet the obligations only once, thus limiting the effort involved;
- the gap analysis, to help with the requalification of an AI system following the integration or modification of a regulatory reference framework, and to provide a visual and operational view of the action gaps.

These new features are integrated into the solution’s 4 functional modules:

Naaia Repository acts as an inventory of AI systems managed by the organization and integrated into the platform by the company’s teams;

Naaia Assess enables each AI system to be qualified on the basis of key criteria: applicable regulations, operator status, phase, categorisation according to risk level, integration of privacy and monitoring of intellectual property rights and, for groups, management of responsibilities between subsidiaries;

Naaia Core generates a unique action plan for each AI system, bringing together all the applicable standards and providing all the templates for documenting obligations. Common actions for all AIS are grouped into “core actions”;

Naaia Event Tracker meets the post-market monitoring obligation resulting from the AI Act, and enables the various parties in the chain to stay informed and monitor all the events linked to the life of AI systems – risks, modifications, malfunctions – in order to take the right decisions.

About Naaia

Naaia, the European pioneering multi-regulations and multi-standards Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS), provides an operational response to organizations’ compliance needs with an AI risk management tool for the deployment of responsible AI.

Founded in 2021 by 4 French entrepreneurs, including 3 lawyers (Nathalie Beslay, Côme Sauzay, Olivia Rime and Benjamin May), Naaia‘s mission is to turn regulatory obligations into concrete actions for businesses in a product-centric way to help them reach their compliance targets as quickly as possible and in the best possible way. To achieve this, Naaia’s offering is structured around 3 components: consulting services for local support; Naaia Learning, a training programme tailored to customers’ needs; and its SaaS solution. The SaaS solution is based on 4 functional modules: Naaia Repository (inventory of AI systems), Naaia Assess (qualification of AI systems), Naaia Core (compliance action plans) and Naaia Event Tracker (risk management module).

For more information: naaia.ai.