AI and ML: data, models, the EU AI Act and customer contracts
Companies that train models, build products on third-party models, or sell AI solutions to enterprise customers. We answer who owns the model and its outputs, what the EU AI Act requires of your role, and how to sign with a customer who is afraid of leaking its data.
The tasks clients came to us with
A B2B LLM-based product for banks: the contract, the DPA and the AI Act role
A start-up sold banks an assistant built on a third-party model, and the customers demanded guarantees on data and AI Act compliance. We established the company’s role (deployer versus provider), rewrote the customer agreement and the DPA, and added a training-data policy and a human-oversight procedure. Two banks signed within a quarter.
Who owns the model: moving IP from the team and contractors into the holding
The model had been trained by three founders and two contractors without a single assignment agreement. Before the round we assigned the code, the model weights and the datasets to a Cypriot IP company and licensed them to the operating company. The investor’s IP due diligence came back clean.
A dataset licence with use restrictions for a US AI company
A UK company sold labelled data to a US customer who wanted a perpetual right to any use. We negotiated a licence limited in scope, with a resale ban and a data-provenance audit. The deal closed and the data sources stayed protected.
What exactly we do for AI and ML
Structuring
An IP company for the model, separate from the operating risk.
Regulation
The EU AI Act, GDPR and the sector rules your customers live under.
Intellectual property
Model, weights, datasets and outputs — who owns what.
Investment
A round with clean IP and a clear regulatory status.
Contracts
Contracts that answer the customer’s security questions before they are asked.
Tax
Royalties for the model, IP Box, R&D reliefs.
What we have written about AI and ML
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Tell us what the model is, whose data it uses and who the customers are — we will say which contracts and which structure you need.
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