The EU AI Act Won’t Hit Your AI Team First — It Will Hit Your Supply Chain

Image Of Title Everyone Is Watching the Wrong Deadline Most conversations about the EU AI Act focus on AI developers: model providers, deployers, and compliance teams building risk-management systems for high-risk AI. That conversation matters - but it misses where the regulation’s practical impact will be felt first. Not in the AI lab. The first people to feel it will be procurement managers fielding questionnaires they have never seen before, asking about AI usage in manufacturing processes that nobody in their organization has ever thought to document.