Resources
Reference documents for regulated entities and the suppliers they assess.
Vendor assessment
Five questions to ask an AI vendor
Sets out five questions on contemporaneous record-keeping, reconstruction of a single decision, tamper-evidence, supplier inventory, and boundary events and retention. Each question is given with the answer it requires.
Last updated August 2026.
Standards
Explains how the operational risk standard applies where an agent, rather than a person, carries out an operational process.
Last updated August 2026.
Record-keeping under the EU AI Act
Separates Article 12 and Annex IV from Arkna’s operational interpretation of useful traceability.
Last updated August 2026.
Explanatory material
Sets out the case for keeping the record outside the system that produced the decision, and what observability tooling establishes.
Last updated August 2026.
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