Dev teams building EU-facing high-risk AI systems have no CI/CD-integrated tool to auto-generate and version-control the mandatory Annex IV technical dossier before the August 2026 enforcement deadline

EU AI Act obligations for high-risk AI systems under Annex III (biometrics, employment screening, education tools, credit scoring, essential services) take effect August 2 2026. Providers must produce Annex IV technical documentation before market placement: nine mandatory categories covering architecture, training data, risk management process, post-market monitoring plan, and deployer information, all retained for 10 years. Cloud Security Alliance March 2026 report finds over half of organisations lack systematic AI inventories and 40 percent of AI systems cannot be clearly classified. Engineers typically spend 40-80 hours creating the dossier from scratch. Tools like Annexa generate a PDF at EUR 49 per month but are manual, not version-controlled, and not integrated with CI/CD. The EuConform offline-first compliance tool reached 71 upvotes and 49 comments on Show HN in January 2026, confirming active developer demand for automation in this space. Commenters in the Ask HN thread from February 2026 identified the specific gap: proving continuous compliance across model iterations rather than a one-time checkbox.