EU intelligence for teams without a policy department
Know what comes next in Europe.
Senior analysis of the EU decisions that reach your business: where each one is heading, what is driving it, and what it means for you.
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Most teams hear about EU decisions too late to act, and rarely hear what they mean for them.
What we cover
Three questions we answer for your business.
Every briefing is filed under one of them, so you always know why it reached you.
What is coming that could hurt us?
New rules, deadlines and enforcement, with alerts that say what changes for you.
For regulated firms
Where is the money?
The EU funding calls that fit your size and sector, with what they pay and when they close.
For firms looking for funding
How do we make our case before it is decided?
Consultations, the arguments on each side, and who decides when.
For associations and public-affairs teams
For public-affairs teams
Brief your board, members or clients without writing it yourself.
Book a call →Board notes and videos on the files you cannot cover yourself.
Member-ready updates in your brand, every week.
White-label briefings you send to your own clients.
Your own hub
Everything you need to act, in one place.
Every briefing arrives with what it means for you, the sources behind it and a short video, and the hub keeps it all together for your team.
Your briefings, the votes and the deadlines on your agenda, day by day.
Read a briefing straight through, then open more at any point: the numbers, an example, the counter-argument, the source.
AI Act enforcement formally began on 2 August. The powers are in place; the open question is whether the institutions can apply them.
Of about 145 staff at the EU AI Office, around 35 work directly on enforcement. Fines reach €35 million or 7% of worldwide turnover.
The assistant answers only from your briefings and their sources, shows where each answer came from, and says so when it does not know.
If it counts as a high-risk system under Annex III, yes. Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 moved the main duties for those systems from 2 August 2026 to 2 December 2027.
When something moves on your agenda, an alert tells you what changed and what it means for you, in three lines.
- It comes on top of the €3 duty on items under €150.
- Check how the fee reaches your checkout prices.
- From July 2028 you file through the EU Customs Data Hub.
Mark a passage, add a line of your own and send it to a colleague.
The EU has the powers on paper. Of about 145 staff at the AI Office, around 35 work directly on enforcement. That gap decides how fast the rules bite.
“Of about 145 staff at the AI Office, around 35 work directly on enforcement.”
Who is our national authority, and is it running?
Watch, read or ask
Three minutes on the train. Six pages at your desk.
Every briefing comes as a short video and a full read with sources, so you can take it in wherever you are and pass it to people who will not read six pages.
Our method
The Ripple Method
Every piece of work starts from your question and answers three more: what is changing, what is driving it, and what it means for you. Analysts write and check every briefing, and every line links to its source.
What do you need to decide?
We start with your topics, files, decisions and time horizon, and deliver in the format you use: a deep dive, decision memo, briefing, video or targeted update.
What is changing?
We measure today against the record: what each actor said, committed to and did before. Every claim links to its source, and official claims are checked against other evidence.
What is driving it?
We trace the steps that would lead to an outcome and test that explanation against the alternatives. Facts, interpretations and forecasts stay labelled, and rhetoric and policy are tracked separately.
What does it mean for you?
We apply it to your files and decisions. Where the evidence allows, we record a forecast with its assumptions and timeframe, then score it against what happens.
Every assignment adds to one analytical memory of statements, decisions and outcomes, each kept with its source and date. Each answer draws on more history.
Political forecasts stay conditional. We say what remains unknown and what new evidence would change our assessment.
Draws on process tracing (David Collier), discourse network analysis (Philip Leifeld), the ODNI Analytic Standards and IARPA's forecasting research.
Our sources
Every briefing starts from the official EU record. Analysts connect it and check every claim.
Getting started
Tell us your agenda once.
A short form: your sector, the countries you work in and the EU topics you follow. What you tell us stays private.
Analysts and research track every move on those topics.
On your topics, each with a short video, and alerts when something moves. Change your agenda any time.
Tell us what you'd like shorter, deeper or different. We adjust your briefings every week, so the longer we work together, the better they fit.
Sample briefings
Read a briefing before you sign up.
The EU has the enforcement powers. The open question is whether its institutions can apply them.
of the AI Office's 145 staff work directly on enforcement.
- 1AI Act enforcement formally began on 2 August 2026.
- 2Fines reach €35 million or 7% of worldwide turnover for prohibited practices.
- 3Annex III high-risk duties moved to 2 December 2027 under Regulation (EU) 2026/1744.
- Which of our systems fall under Annex III?
- Does the December 2027 date change our plan?
- Who is our national AI authority?
Plans
Start free. Make it yours when you’re ready.
Try a full briefing and see how the hub works.
- One briefing in full, with its video
- One alert on what moved
- Sources on every line
- A look at every part of it
- No time limit, no card
For teams that follow EU decisions without a policy department.
- A briefing every weekday
- Deep dive or digest, you pick
- A short video with each
- Alerts that explain the impact
- Ask Causalia, your AI assistant
- Every answer shows its source
- Your votes and deadlines
- Highlights, notes, sharing
- Your topics, agreed on a call
- Checked by an analyst
- Tuned to your feedback weekly
Analysts with experience across European policy, diplomacy and public affairs, working with AI research. They write and check every briefing. On Custom, every piece is written for your business and checked before it reaches you.