The EU AI Act wants a Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment. I had no idea where to begin.

When I first read that Article 27 of the EU AI Act expects deployers of certain AI systems to do a Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment, my reaction was not "good idea" — it was "where does that even start?" There is no form. There is an article, a set of rights, and a deadline-shaped pressure that makes it easy to do nothing until someone asks for it. I built the tool I wished I'd had: something that takes how you actually deploy AI and tells you whether the trigger likely applies, before you've spent a week staring at the void.

The honest case for a trigger call, then a draft

FriaForge starts with the question that blocks everyone: does Article 27 likely apply to you as a deployer? You paste how you deploy AI, and it returns an FRIA trigger call — a read on whether the obligation plausibly bites — followed by the rights themes worth considering, the evidence gaps you'd need to close, and a checklist framed for deployers specifically (not providers).

It is a decision-support draft, not a finished assessment. The point is to convert "I don't know if this is even my problem" into "the trigger looks relevant, here are the rights themes and the gaps to chase." The checklist gives you a shape to fill, and the themes keep you from forgetting the boring but load-bearing ones — the rights that don't announce themselves in your feature description.

What it deliberately does not do

• The trigger call is not a ruling. It surfaces whether Article 27 likely applies based on what you paste; the actual determination may need counsel, especially near the edges.
• It is not legal advice. The rights themes are prompts drawn from the article, not a finding that a specific right is or isn't affected by your system.
• It does not file or submit anything. The checklist and draft are yours to act on; closing the evidence gaps is the real work.
• It cannot assess rights it isn't told about. A vague description of deployment produces a vague, possibly incomplete, FRIA draft.

If Article 27 has been a blank line in your compliance notes, FriaForge is $19/mo and turns the blank line into a trigger read and a checklist you can start filling tonight. The judgment calls are still yours to make.