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Thank you for taking The EU AI Act for Non-Lawyers. The Act will keep evolving — guidelines, secondary acts, the Code of Practice, and case law all build on the structure you now understand. Four suggestions, in roughly the order most learners find them useful.

1. Do the 30-day plan

The single best thing you can do this week is run the Lesson 5 checklist on your actual systems, with names and dates. Most readers find the Week 1 mapping exercise reveals one or two systems they had not previously thought about as "AI" — internal scoring spreadsheets, vendor tools embedded in business processes, automation around recruitment. Surfacing them is half the work.

2. Go deeper — Path B and Path D in the full programme

This course sits at the intersection of two of our five Tier 3 specialisations. Both go deeper than the free material covers.

Tier 3 · Path B · 60 ECTS

AI for Business and Consulting

Strategy, economics, governance, due diligence, consulting craft. The Act is covered in depth in B4 — Economics and Regulation of AI and applied across B5 — AI Due Diligence. For product leaders, founders, and consultants whose work touches the Act.

Path B detail

Tier 3 · Path D · 60 ECTS

AI for Cybersecurity

The Act treated as one of five framework spines. D7 — AI Governance and Compliance for Security covers the operational compliance of AI under the Act, NIS2, DORA, ISO 42001, and NIST AI RMF together. For security professionals and compliance leads.

Path D detail

Both paths launch with the December 2026 cohort. Applications are open now. Apply or write to hello@romeoadvancedacademy.com.

3. Read these

A short, sober reading list. The Act's surrounding literature is enormous and noisy — these are the ones we keep returning to.

  • The consolidated text of the AI Act on EUR-Lex. The official source. Read recitals 1–25 first; they explain what the Act is for.
  • The European AI Office page on the Commission's site. Guidance documents, the Code of Practice, the AI Pact.
  • Future of Life Institute's AI Act Explorer at artificialintelligenceact.eu. Unofficial, but well-organised, hyperlinked, and frequently updated.
  • The Council of Europe's Framework Convention on AI (May 2024). Adjacent but important — sets out human-rights-grounded AI governance principles many EU Member States are also bound by.
  • Anu Bradford's Digital Empires (2023). For the wider context of why Europe regulates technology the way it does.

4. Try the other free courses

Free course · 5 lessons

Build Your First AI Agent

What an AI agent actually is, the agent loop, tools, multi-step planning, failure modes. The technical fundamentals.

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Free course · 5 lessons

AI Security Foundations

The Act sits next to NIS2, DORA, ISO 42001, and NIST AI RMF. This course covers the security frame and how the five regulations interlock.

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Free course · 5 lessons

Build a Market Research Bot

If your work involves using AI to do research, this is the responsible-use companion to that workflow.

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Tell us what we missed

This is the first version of this course. The Act is a moving target — secondary acts are being drafted, the Code of Practice is being signed, national authorities are publishing guidance, and the first enforcement decisions will reshape the field. Tell us what you would change. Email hello@romeoadvancedacademy.com with "AI Act course feedback" in the subject. We will revise.

The December 2026 cohort opens for applications.

Path B and Path D both treat the Act as a core regulatory spine — and add the strategic and security framings you need to live with it for the next decade.

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