AI literacy obligation under Article 4 EU AI Act

Meet the EU AI Act training obligation and build real AI competence

The AI training obligation has applied since 2 February 2025. You can tick it off in an LMS, or use it to make your team genuinely capable with AI. We build the second path with you: hands-on, real data and tools, working prototypes instead of slides.

Teams we have built with

Adobe logoNavVis logoYOYABA logoOnventis logoSTIHL logomimacom logo123 MPU logoAcquatec logoAllAirt logoBCT logoBitwerft logoBlue Moon logoEcoza logoEcoza Institute logoi40 logoInsight Consulting Berlin logoK-oenic logoAdobe logoNavVis logoYOYABA logoOnventis logoSTIHL logomimacom logo123 MPU logoAcquatec logoAllAirt logoBCT logoBitwerft logoBlue Moon logoEcoza logoEcoza Institute logoi40 logoInsight Consulting Berlin logoK-oenic logo

What we believe

Ten employees who can genuinely operate an AI system safely outweigh a hundred who only have a certificate of attendance in their file. That is why we build competence, not attendance lists.

That is why everyone builds with us, not just an innovation team in a side room.

Challenges

What your teams build in the hackathon

The challenges come from your daily work. We tailor them to the roles involved so everyone works on a relevant task.

Email reply assistant

Pulls context from the inbox and replies in your own tone.

Daily briefing agent

Bundles to-dos and commitments from emails and chats.

Meeting-to-action-items

Turns transcripts into owners and deadlines.

Executive reporting autopilot

Pulls data and produces a board-ready update.

Internal knowledge bot

Answers questions from your own documents.

AI policy assistant

Safe use of AI across the team, available on demand.

AI system inventory bot

Keeps an overview of the AI systems in use.

Compliance documentation

Generates proof and documentation automatically.

3-5

deployable prototypes

24 h

from problem to prototype

100%

hands-on instead of lectures

1 week

from the call to proof

Services

Three ways to embed AI in your company

From hackathon to leadership enablement to implementation sprint — pick the entry point that fits your situation.

01

AI Hackathon

Teams build real prototypes on their own tasks in one to five days.

  • 3 to 5 working prototypes on your real tasks
  • Proof of competence under Article 4 EU AI Act
  • Skills library with prompts, workflows and playbooks
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02

Leadership Enablement

Managers build hands-on and become AI champions for their teams.

  • Five agents per manager, ready for production use
  • Champion playbook for enabling their own teams
  • AI policy with data classes and tool approvals
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03

Implementation Sprint

Your strongest prototype becomes a production system, with a clean IT handoff.

  • Production-ready solution for one to three use cases
  • Technical documentation and operations guide
  • Roles and permissions concept
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Insights from our hackathons

What participants build, what leaders say afterwards and what we learn from every format.

Our approach

Meet the obligation. Build competence.

Three pillars that turn the AI training obligation into a real lever instead of a cost centre.

Compliance

  • Addresses Article 4 EU AI Act role- and context-based measures instead of a blanket course

  • Not just an attendance log verifiable artefacts from real projects

  • Documentation included proof of competence from prototype, use and handoff

Competence

  • Hands-on instead of lectures real data, real tools, real results

  • AI champions in-house multipliers who pass on the knowledge

  • Opportunities and limits understood from their own experience, not from slides

Speed

  • Hackathon within 1 week from the discovery call to the results pitch

  • Running prototype after 24 hours not a concept paper, but software that runs

  • No effort for your team facilitation, tools and credits come from us

Success Stories

Hackathons with Adobe, NavVis, YOYABA and Onventis

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Five leadership AI agents for the executive team

The hackathon was aimed at the leadership team, up to 20 people. Goal: managers become AI champions and then train their own sub-teams. That is how competence scales from the top down through the whole company.

Leadership EnablementRead case study
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AI workflows for a performance marketing organisation

Teams from strategy, creative and paid media built on their real tasks instead of listening to slides. The sprint produced a content pipeline and a performance dashboard across several channels.

Performance MarketingRead case study
Onventis logo

From tool workshop to a running prototype in 24 hours

Day 1 started with AI foundations and a tool workshop, followed by ideation, kickoff and a sprint on real procurement tasks. After 24 hours a running prototype was in place, not a concept paper.

Procurement / SaaSRead case study
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Engineering teams build their own AI tools

Instead of lectures, engineering teams worked with modern AI tools on their own development problems, understanding the opportunities and limits of the technology from their own experience.

EngineeringRead case study
Corporathon Hackathon

From a real problem to a working prototype

Your teams bring real tasks and real data. We bring tools, structure and facilitation. After 24 hours there is a running prototype, not a concept paper.

Real tasks come in

Building & coaching

Results & proof

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3 to 5 deployable prototypes
Impact report & skills library
Proof of competence & IT handoff
Process

From first call to proof of competence in 1 week

We run the facilitation from start to finish. Your people do not need to prepare anything except curiosity.

Workshop session at the hackathonTeam pitching their prototypes
01

Discovery Call

30 minutes

Clarify goals, roles and the right format.

02

Tool and credit setup

Access

We provide tools, accounts and credits.

03

Curriculum co-design

Challenges

Your real tasks become hackathon challenges.

04

Finalisation

Data & access

Aligned with IT and compliance, in a privacy-compliant way.

05

Hackathon day(s)

Sprint

Foundations, tool workshop, ideation, building with coaching.

06

Pitches & handoff

Proof of competence

Prototypes, impact report, skills library, IT handoff.

AI training obligation

What Article 4 EU AI Act really requires

Organisations must take measures to support the AI literacy of everyone relevant to them. A certificate is not prescribed; what counts is that measures fit the context.

Applies since 2 February 2025

For providers and deployers. Most companies in the DACH region hold the deployer role.

Role-based, not one-size-fits-all

Management needs an overview, functional teams need safe day-to-day use of the tools.

Proportionate to the risk

Measures must fit the context of use and the risks involved. No off-the-shelf course.

Box-ticking training

  • Output: a box ticked in the LMS
  • Proof: a plain attendance log
  • Transfer to practice: not measurable
  • Knowledge fades after two weeks
Team building at a Corporathon hackathon

Corporathon hackathon

  • Output: 3 to 5 running prototypes
  • Proof: real project artefacts
  • Transfer to practice: in your own daily work
  • AI champions stay in-house
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Discovery Call

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In about 30 minutes we clarify which roles are affected by Art. 4 EU AI Act, where your AI literacy stands today and which real task works as a hackathon challenge.

Participants at a Corporathon AI hackathon

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Founder, Corporathon

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What decision-makers want to know before the first hackathon, kept short and to the point.

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