I kept putting off our AI DPIA because the template was a wall of text

Somewhere in our backlog there was a task called "do the DPIA for the AI feature" that had been living there since the week we shipped the AI feature. Not because I doubted it mattered — because the GDPR's data-protection impact assessment is, in practice, a wall of headings, and nobody on a small team had a free afternoon to find out which of them actually applied to us. So it sat. That's the failure mode I wanted to remove: not the law, the activation energy.

The honest case for a starter, not a finished form

DpiaPack takes the thing I kept avoiding and makes it a ten-minute first pass instead of a never-started project. You paste your AI-related processing. It returns a DPIA starter pack built around the themes the law actually points to: Article 26(9) of the AI Act, the deployer's duty to carry out a DPIA where the use is high-risk, and the assessment themes under GDPR Article 35.

What comes back is concrete and limited: a readiness read on where you stand, the DPIA themes that look relevant to your processing, flags for special-category data that change the analysis, and a list of evidence gaps — the documents and proofs you'd need to produce if someone asked. None of it is a filed assessment. It's the skeleton you fill in, with the right headings already chosen so you're not guessing which part of the regulation is yours.

What it deliberately does not do

• It does not file a DPIA. It produces a starter pack and a gaps list. The actual assessment, sign-off, and record-keeping are yours.
• It is not legal advice. The themes and flags are prompts drawn from the articles, not a determination that your processing is or isn't high-risk.
• It cannot know your processing as well as you do. The flags depend on what you paste; a thin description yields a thin, possibly misleading, starter.
• It does not certify GDPR compliance. Closing the evidence gaps is a substantive exercise, and a completed pack is not a clean bill of health.

If the DPIA has been a wall of text in your backlog too, DpiaPack is $19/mo and gets the first draft on the page where you can actually work on it. The hard part — honest answers — is still on you.