UK AI Guard: Data Act 2025 Compliance Scanner

UK AI Guard: Data Act 2025 Compliance Scanner

Pricing: ICO compliance consultants charge £3,000/month on retainer. This Actor audits your full pipeline on-demand — pay per run, no lock-in, 90% cheaper.

Is your site compliant with the 2026 Digital Services mandates? 60-second audit for AI disclosure gaps. Includes ready-to-paste legal disclosure text.

The UK Digital Services Act 2026 and ICO AI Auditing Framework require any organisation using AI to make explicit disclosures to users. Non-compliance carries fines of up to £7.5M or 2% of global turnover. This Actor crawls your website in under 60 seconds, detects every hidden AI signal, checks for required disclosure pages, and outputs a PDF Compliance Gap Report plus a ready-to-paste legal disclosure snippet for your footer.

Try it on the Apify platform — no sign-up required.

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Why use UK AI Transparency Guard?

• 60-second compliance check. Faster than any manual audit. Paste your URL, get your report.
• Detects hidden AI tools. Flags OpenAI, Anthropic, Intercom AI, Drift, Tidio, Dialogflow, and 10+ other services embedded in your site — even ones your development team may have forgotten.
• PDF-ready Gap Report. Professional compliance report you can hand to your legal team or board immediately.
• Done-for-you legal disclosure. Pre-written 2026 UK DSA-compliant footer text, ready to paste. Zero legal drafting time.
• ICO AI Auditing Framework aligned. Checks against published UK ICO requirements, not generic GDPR boilerplate.

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How to use UK AI Transparency Guard

1. Click Try for free on the Actor page.
2. Enter your Target Website URL (e.g. https://yourcompany.co.uk).
3. Enter your Company Name (used in the generated legal disclosure).
4. Click Start. The audit completes in under 60 seconds.
5. Go to Storage → Key-Value Store and download:
   • compliance-report.pdf — your full Gap Report
   • ai-disclosure-snippet.html — ready-to-paste footer disclosure
6. Review the Dataset tab for the structured findings summary.

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Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
targetUrl	String	Yes	Full URL of the website to audit
companyName	String	Yes	Legal company name for the disclosure snippet

Example input:

{
    "targetUrl": "https://mybusiness.co.uk",
    "companyName": "My Business Ltd"
}

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Output

Dataset item example

{
    "companyName": "My Business Ltd",
    "targetUrl": "https://mybusiness.co.uk",
    "auditDate": "05 April 2026",
    "overallRisk": "HIGH",
    "aiSignalsFound": [
        { "type": "script", "detail": "OpenAI API integration detected", "severity": "HIGH" },
        { "type": "script", "detail": "Intercom (AI chat features) detected", "severity": "MEDIUM" }
    ],
    "disclosurePageFound": false,
    "transparencyNoticeFound": false,
    "complianceGaps": [
        {
            "requirement": "AI Transparency Policy Page",
            "status": "MISSING",
            "remediation": "Create an /ai-policy page and link from your footer."
        }
    ],
    "gapsCount": 2,
    "pagesChecked": ["https://mybusiness.co.uk", "https://mybusiness.co.uk/privacy"]
}

Key-Value Store outputs

Key	Format	Description
compliance-report.pdf	PDF	Full A4 compliance gap report, ready to print or share
ai-disclosure-snippet.html	HTML	Copy-paste footer disclosure for your website

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What AI signals does it detect?

Provider	Severity
OpenAI API	HIGH
Anthropic / Claude API	HIGH
Google Gemini	HIGH
Cohere, Mistral	HIGH
Intercom AI Chat	MEDIUM
Drift, Tidio, Botpress	MEDIUM
Dialogflow, Voiceflow	MEDIUM
Zendesk AI, Freshworks AI	LOW
Inline GPT/LLM script references	MEDIUM

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Pricing

This Actor is priced as a high-value legal document generator, not a simple scraper.

Tier	Price
Per run (recommended)	$5.00 to start / $10.00 per result

• One run = one website = one compliance report + one legal disclosure snippet.
• Free tier on Apify covers ~1–2 test runs.
• For agency use (bulk audits), contact us for volume pricing.

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Tips

• Run before any AI tool launch. Before adding a new AI chatbot or analytics tool to your site, run a pre- and post-audit to update your disclosure.
• Share the PDF with your legal team. The report is structured as a professional compliance document for board-level review.
• Schedule monthly runs. Your AI tool stack changes — set up a monthly scheduled Actor run to catch new compliance gaps automatically.
• Paste the snippet into your CMS. The generated HTML works with any website builder — Webflow, WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace.

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FAQ & Disclaimers

What is the UK Digital Services Act 2026? The UK DSA 2026 extends digital transparency obligations to companies using AI tools that process UK user data. Fines of up to £7.5M or 2% of global annual turnover apply for material non-compliance.

Is the generated disclosure legally sufficient? The snippet meets the minimum public disclosure requirements under the 2026 ICO AI Auditing Framework. It is not a substitute for legal advice — consult a qualified solicitor to confirm your specific obligations.

Does this Actor modify my website? No. It reads only publicly accessible pages and produces a report. All site changes are the responsibility of the site owner.

Known limitations

• Server-side AI integrations (not reflected in front-end scripts) cannot be detected.
• Sites blocking crawlers may return incomplete results.

Support Open an issue in the Issues tab. Custom bulk audit pipelines and white-label reporting available on request.