EU AI Act, in 90 seconds\n\nThree roles. Three duties.\n\n- **Provider** — built it. Owes documentation, conformity, post-market monitoring.\n- **Deployer (operator)** — runs it. Owes oversight, logging, incident reporting.\n- **Distributor / importer** — moves it. Owes diligence on the chain.\n\nIf you cannot name your role in a sentence, you are not ready to deploy.