An AI feature we ran produced a wrong, consequential output for a user. Nobody was hurt, but the moment I said "we should probably report this," I realized I had no idea what "report" meant under the EU AI Act, or whether this even counted as the kind of incident I'd have to report.
Article 73 is the serious-incident reporting duty. The word "serious" does real work there — not every incident triggers it, and the Act gives a test for which ones do. I had the test in front of me and still couldn't cleanly apply it to my own Tuesday.
The case for a drafter
The two questions are separate and both awkward: first, is this incident "serious" under the Article 73 criteria; second, if yes, what does the report actually have to contain? SeriousKit walks the first question with you — laying out the seriousness criteria against the facts you have — and then drafts the report the article calls for from those same facts.
It's decision-support on both sides. It won't tell you "this is serious, file it" any more than it'll tell you "ignore it." It makes the determination explicit and the paperwork less of a blank page.
Where AI does belong in this picture
Drafting the report from a messy incident narrative is open-ended writing — that's where a model earns its place, turning "the model returned a bad value and we caught it" into the structured disclosure the article expects. What must stay fixed is the seriousness test itself: which criteria, which thresholds, what must be stated. That stays on the written Article 73, not on a model's instincts.
What it deliberately does not do
- It is not legal advice. The seriousness call is yours; the tool frames it.
- It doesn't file anything. It drafts the report; submission to the authority is on you.
- It doesn't decide "serious" for you. It maps your facts to the criteria; you conclude.
- It can't confirm you're even in scope. Whether Art. 73 applies to your role is a separate question.
SeriousKit is $19/mo. If an AI incident lands on your lap and you're staring at Article 73 with no template, draft the report before you decide what it says.
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