Karsten Richter is a co-founder of easy EU, a SaaS platform that helps small and mid-sized businesses comply with EU regulations without a legal department, an enterprise compliance suite, or a five-figure consulting invoice. His founding thesis: EU compliance isn't complicated. It was made to look that way, because complexity is profitable for the people selling it. Most SMBs face a couple of standard scenarios, not the edge cases that fill 200-page regulatory guidelines. easy EU is built on that premise: turning EU law into guided workflows that a non-lawyer can complete in an afternoon. easy EU's first product, easy AI, helps companies comply with the EU AI Act: building an AI inventory, assessing risk levels, auto-generating required documentation, and publishing a public transpar...