I read the EU AI Act's GPAI articles and still couldn't tell if they applied to me

When the EU AI Act's rules for general-purpose AI started showing up in my feed, I did what every developer does: opened the regulation text, skimmed until the words stopped meaning anything, and closed the tab. The trouble is, "are you actually a GPAI provider?" is not a question you can answer by vibes, and the two articles people keep pointing at — Article 53 and Article 55 — don't hand you a yes or a no. They hand you a list of conditions and a sinking feeling.

The honest case for narrowing the question

GpaiWatch does one narrow thing, and I built it because the wide version of the question was paralyzing me. You work through whether you are a General-Purpose AI provider, and if so, which obligation tier plausibly applies to what you ship: Article 53, which sets the transparency and documentation duties for GPAI providers, or Article 55, which adds duties for providers of GPAI models with systemic risk.

It is decision-support, not a legal opinion. What it gives you is a structured read of the conditions in those articles, mapped to your own answers, so that when you do talk to a lawyer you arrive with a specific position to test instead of a blank page and a confession that you never finished the text. The value is turning "I have no idea where I stand" into "here is the article I need to discuss, and here is where the uncertainty sits."

What it deliberately does not do

• It does not tell you "you are compliant." It tells you which articles' conditions you appear to meet, and where the doubt lives. A clean output is a starting point, not a clearance.
• It is not legal advice. If your classification carries real exposure, this is what you bring to a qualified advisor — not the advisor itself.
• It does not track you over time. Scope under the Act turns on what your model does and how it's deployed; this tool snapshots one pass. If your product changes, run it again.
• It does not decide the systemic-risk tier for you. Article 55 turns on thresholds and facts the tool can't verify, so it points you at the question rather than answering it.

If you've been avoiding the GPAI question because the articles are thirty pages of cross-references, GpaiWatch is $19/mo and trades blank-page dread for a concrete article to raise with counsel. Same responsibility to follow through — just a smaller first step.