Berlin, Germany · A2G Consulting · European compliance since day one
Berlin, Germany · A2G Consulting · European compliance since day one
AnnexOps is the flagship product of A2G Consulting — a Berlin-based cybersecurity and compliance firm that has been implementing ISO 27001, IEC 62443, and GDPR across European enterprises for years. We did not read the EU AI Act and decide to build software. We lived the problem first.
The origin story
For years, A2G Consulting sat across the table from some of Europe’s most serious enterprises — helping them implement ISO 27001, navigate IEC 62443 for operational technology, manage cybersecurity risk, and stay ahead of GDPR. Our work lived inside boardrooms, risk committees, and audit preparation sessions. We understood regulatory complexity not from a textbook, but from the inside.
When the EU AI Act took shape, every client conversation eventually hit the same wall. The product was ready. The market was there. But the moment anyone asked about EU AI Act compliance, the room went quiet — not because nobody cared, but because every path forward led to a six-figure legal bill, a 12-month delay, and a PDF report that expired the moment the Commission issued new guidance.
Nitin Grover and his team saw what the market had missed: existing compliance automation tools — built for GDPR checklists and ISO audits — were document verification engines. The EU AI Act is fundamentally different. It requires compliance to live at the development level, inside the CI/CD pipeline, at the moment of deployment. The obligations track the AI system itself — its risk level, its training data, its monitoring behaviour, its intended use boundary — not just its documentation folder.
The penalties confirmed the stakes. Up to €35 million or 7% of global annual turnover for the most serious violations. These are not GDPR-style administrative fines that legal teams budget for. These are existential risks for AI startups — already active for GPAI models since August 2025.
So A2G Consulting made a decision that few pure-play software companies could make credibly: productise what they already knew. Not study the regulation and build a tool. Build infrastructure from the inside out — from the compliance room, not from a product roadmap. AnnexOps is the result: not a compliance checklist, not a document generator, but end-to-end AI governance infrastructure that lives where AI systems live — in the developer’s pipeline.
This is a services-to-product transition. The team behind AnnexOps has already done the hard work of understanding how compliance actually functions inside European organisations. That credibility cannot be faked, and it cannot be built quickly. It is AnnexOps’s most durable competitive advantage.
Our Position
We do not help clients avoid the EU AI Act. We believe the regulation is legitimate. What we dispute is the assumption that compliance has to be expensive, manual, and separated from engineering.
Transparency, risk management, human oversight, and technical documentation for AI systems that make consequential decisions about people’s lives — these are reasonable obligations. What is unreasonable is expecting startups to meet them through law firms and PDF reports. The tooling gap is the problem we are solving.
EU AI Act compliance should work like a test suite. Run automatically on every model push. Fail a build when a new obligation is introduced. Produce evidence continuously — not in a panic before an audit. We are building the infrastructure layer that makes this real — the same way Stripe built payments infrastructure and Twilio built communications infrastructure.
The AI startups that reach the August 2, 2026 deadline with a verified compliance health score, an embeddable badge, and a board-ready report — while competitors are still booking discovery calls with law firms — will have a durable competitive advantage in EU enterprise procurement for the next five years.
The team
Two leaders who have spent their careers inside enterprise technology, compliance, and entrepreneurship — converging on the regulatory infrastructure challenge that matters most for AI companies right now.
Founder & CEO · A2G Consulting & AnnexOps
Nitin has spent decades in leadership roles across enterprise technology — including senior positions at Hexaview Technologies, R Systems, Trianz, and TO THE NEW. That career gave him something rare: ground-level experience of how governance, compliance, and technology intersect inside large organisations. When he founded A2G Consulting, he built it around the conviction that compliance advisory should be honest, deeply technical, and genuinely practical. After years of watching European AI companies struggle with a regulation existing tools couldn’t handle, he made the call: the answer is infrastructure, not consulting. AnnexOps is that decision made real.
Investor & Strategic Advisor
Pavan is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience building, scaling, and exiting technology businesses. He has founded three companies — one acquired, one taken to a successful exit. He now invests in and guides early-stage startups, bringing the specific commercial instincts that only someone who has built and sold businesses at scale can offer. His investment in AnnexOps is a deliberate bet: on a team with irreplaceable domain knowledge, a regulation with a hard enforcement deadline, and a market with no credible infrastructure solution. Pavan’s backing brings the entrepreneurial rigour and commercial discipline that complements A2G’s deep regulatory expertise.
Our mission
We are not a compliance consultancy that built software. We are a product company built on compliance expertise — a team that has spent years earning the right to say we understand this problem. The EU AI Act compliance infrastructure that AI startups need does not exist in the way it needs to. We are building it from Berlin, with a development team in Noida, backed by a decade of work in European compliance rooms.
Not software built around a regulation. Expertise built into software from years inside real European compliance programmes.
Berlin headquarters. Frankfurt data hosting. German and Dutch launch markets. We are not a US company selling into Europe.
APIs, SDKs, and automated evidence chains — not PDFs, retainers, and interpretation memos. Compliance that ships with your code.
One more thing
AnnexOps does not provide legal advice. We provide the infrastructure that makes legal review faster, evidence collection automated, and audit preparation something that takes hours rather than months.
If you need a legal opinion on a specific EU AI Act question, we will connect you with the right practitioner through our partner network. If you need compliance infrastructure that lives in your pipeline and produces evidence your auditors trust — you are in exactly the right place.
AnnexOps is a product of a team that has been in European compliance rooms for years. We do not claim to have all the answers. We claim to understand the problem better than any pure-play software company can — and to have built infrastructure to solve it at scale. If you believe the deadline is real, the penalties are serious, and the tooling gap is genuine, we should talk.
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We are talking to AI startups selling into the EU market. If August 2, 2026 is on your radar, let’s start a conversation.
Core capabilities
Complete coverage of every Annex III use case category including biometrics, critical infrastructure, education, employment, essential services, law enforcement, migration, and justice.
Classification rules are stored as versioned data in the database — never hardcoded. Retroactively check how past classifications would change under new rules.
The engine analyses your role in the AI value chain to determine whether provider obligations (Article 16), deployer obligations (Article 26), or both apply to you.
Detects whether your system is a General Purpose AI model under Article 3(63). Flags models above the 10²⁵ FLOPs threshold for additional Article 55 systemic risk obligations.
A structured questionnaire walks your team through the classification process step by step. Each answer narrows the Annex III scope until a confident classification is reached.
Every completed classification produces a shareable record including the questionnaire responses, rule version, confidence score, and legal reasoning — audit-ready from day one.