EU AI Act deployer
Under the EU AI Act, a deployer is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body using an AI system under its authority, except in the course of a personal non-professional activity (Article 3(4)). A company that uses AI tools at work is a deployer of those tools.
Why it matters for companies
Deployer duties apply to companies that never build a model. The AI literacy duty in Article 4 has applied since 2 February 2025: providers and deployers take measures to support the AI literacy of their staff.
The transparency duties in Article 50 apply from 2 August 2026, including disclosure by deployers of deep fakes they publish.
Example
A company rolls out Claude and ChatGPT to 300 employees. It is a deployer of both, so it runs AI literacy training for staff and keeps records that show how AI use is controlled.
How Standard Compute handles it
Every admin change is recorded with before and after values, and you can export a record of every request showing the model, the provider that served it and the region rule in force, kept for 12 months.