EU AI Act Article 19 — Automatically generated logs
Article 19 of the EU AI Act requires providers of high-risk AI systems to keep the logs automatically generated by the system, when those logs are under their control. The logs must be preserved for a period appropriate to the intended purpose of the system — at least six months, unless otherwise provided in applicable Union or national law — and supplied to competent authorities on request. Enforceable from 2 August 2026.
Source: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (EU AI Act), CELEX:32024R1689.
In development —Agentic Document Analyser ingests automatically-generated log streams and converts them into structured JSON suitable for the Annex IV documentation pack and for handover to competent authorities. The tool is alpha quality, no persistent storage, no authentication on the analyse endpoint — production hardening for Article 19 log retention is on the post-launch roadmap. ADA is evidence-processing infrastructure today.
Practical compliance with Agentic Document Analyser
Agentic Document Analyser ingests automatically-generated log streams and converts them into structured JSON suitable for the Annex IV documentation pack and for handover to competent authorities. The tool is alpha quality, no persistent storage, no authentication on the analyse endpoint — production hardening for Article 19 log retention is on the post-launch roadmap. ADA is evidence-processing infrastructure today.
When the findings land on a governance desk
Tools surface problems. Programmes solve them.
Log retention has to survive a regulator request that may arrive years after the operator decommissioned the system. AskAjay's Liability Ledger framework establishes the retention contract and chain-of-custody design that ADA helps process.
Framework: Liability Ledger — at AskAjay.ai, the advisory arm of AI Exponent LLC.
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