Independent Agent Assurance · EU AI Act ready

The agents you deploy are about to need independent evidence.

From 2 August 2026, the EU AI Act’s high-risk obligations apply in full. Deployers must oversee and monitor the AI systems they run — and most of those systems are third-party agents you didn’t build and can’t fully see inside. Hlido is the independent, evidence-backed, continuously-updated assessment layer for exactly those agents: hundreds of already tested against a public, reproducible methodology.

The readiness gap is real — and the clock is fixed

78%
of enterprises are unprepared for their EU AI Act obligations.
Vision Compliance, 2026 EU AI Act Readiness Report
#1
Security & risk is the top barrier to scaling agentic AI — inaccuracy and security are the most-cited risks.
McKinsey, State of AI Trust 2026 (agentic era)
€35M
or up to 7% of global turnover — the maximum EU AI Act non-compliance fine.
PwC, EU AI Act compliance overview

Only about a fifth of teams report proficiency in AI risk management (Economist Impact), and appliedAI found 40% of enterprise AI systems couldn’t even be clearly classified under the Act’s risk tiers. The bottleneck isn’t the technology — seven independent 2026 reports converge on the same conclusion: it’s the agentic-AI governance gap.

Why this is hard to do yourself

EU AI Act, Article 26 — obligations of deployers. Deployers of high-risk AI must monitor the operation of the system and act on the risks it surfaces. When the system is a third-party agent, you owe ongoing, defensible evidence about something you don’t control and can’t self-attest credibly.

Self-evaluation tools test your own prompts with your own data — useful, but not independent, and not something a regulator or your own risk committee will accept at face value. A point-in-time procurement questionnaire goes stale the moment the vendor ships a new version. What the Act actually asks for is continuous, independent, evidenced assessment — the one thing you structurally cannot produce about a third party from the inside.

What Hlido gives you

Independent · evidence-backed · longitudinal · machine-readable. The four things a deployer monitoring obligation needs, and the four things an in-house eval can’t be.

01 / SCORECARD

Independent assessment per agent

A reproducible scorecard against a public methodology, plus a claim-audit table mapping every vendor marketing claim to PASS / FAIL / UNVERIFIED with the evidence behind it.

02 / MONITORING

Continuous drift & incident watch

We re-test on new releases and alert you on score drift, tier change, or a logged reliability incident — so “monitor the operation” isn’t a once-a-year scramble.

03 / EVIDENCE PACK

Governance-grade evidence, dated

Signed, timestamped evidence (screenshots, scorecard history, incident log) you can hand to your risk committee or auditor — the longitudinal record of what an agent did and when.

04 / MACHINE-READABLE

Pulls straight into your stack

Every assessment is JSON over REST and MCP, so your GRC tooling, agents, and dashboards consume it directly — no PDF archaeology.

Assess your agent stack

Tell us which third-party agents you deploy. We’ll come back with their current independent assessment, what’s already in the corpus, and what an ongoing assurance arrangement would cover.

Hlido provides independent third-party assessment evidence to support your due-diligence and deployer-monitoring work. It is not a legal compliance certification, and Hlido is not a notified conformity-assessment body. Article references are to the EU AI Act for context; confirm your specific obligations with qualified counsel. Methodology overview: /methodology/ · what’s public: registry JSON.