EU Data Act · In force since September 2025

Your business,
governed.

Describe it once. Govern it fluently. Evolve gracefully.

Modellot helps EU founders and scaling businesses understand, document, and govern their data — so compliance becomes a competitive advantage, not a burden.

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EU Data Act compliance deadline
September 2026
New products operating in the EU must
have structured data governance in place.
Why now

The rules for data are changing.
Are you ready?

01
The EU Data Act is not optional
The EU Data Act came into force in September 2025. The compliance deadline is September 2026. Most businesses aren't ready. Businesses operating in the EU must be able to demonstrate that their data exchanges are documented, structured, and governed — on request, without delay. This applies to startups and SMEs, not just enterprises.
02
Your data partners will ask for proof
Enterprise customers and investors are already requesting evidence of data governance before signing contracts. A clearly documented data model is becoming a procurement requirement — not a nice-to-have.
03
Retrofitting is expensive
Building governance in from the start takes hours. Retrofitting it after your product has scaled takes months — and creates legal exposure in the gap. The founders who think about this now will find September easiest.
04
Existing tools are built for engineers
Data governance platforms today assume you have a data engineering team, a data warehouse, and months to implement. Modellot is built for the founder who needs to govern their data before they have any of those things.
The cost of doing nothing

Manual data governance costs
EU businesses €80,000+ per year.

Word documents. Email chains. Shared folders nobody updates. This is how most EU businesses handle data contracts today — and the hidden costs are enormous.

€6K–20K
per 10 contracts created manually
2–4 weeks
to reconstruct an audit trail
€50K–500K
average data quality incident cost
€348/yr
Modellot Pro — all of the above solved
01
Contract creation and maintenance
Each data contract drafted manually requires legal review, partner negotiation, and update cycles. At €200–400/hour for legal review, 10 contracts costs €6,000–20,000 — before any updates.
€12,000–40,000/year in ongoing updates
02
Data conformance discovered too late
Schema drift, data quality failures, and SLA breaches go undetected until a pipeline breaks or a customer notices. Manual conformance checks consume 2–5 engineering days per month.
€50,000–500,000 per serious incident
03
Scrambling when regulators ask
A GDPR or Data Act inquiry requires evidence of your data processing arrangements on demand. Most businesses need 2–4 weeks to reconstruct the audit trail — before any fine is assessed.
€10,000–50,000 in legal fees per investigation
See the full cost analysis →
Who it's for

Built for the people
who build things.

EU founders
You're building a product in the EU market and you know compliance matters — but you don't have a data team. Modellot is your governance layer from day one.
Scaling businesses
Your product is growing and data is flowing to more partners, tools, and systems. You need to govern it without slowing down. Modellot grows with you.
Established companies
You have existing data flows but no formal governance. The September deadline is the trigger. Modellot helps you get compliant without a six-month consulting engagement.
How it works

From plain language to governed business.

01
Describe your business
Tell Modellot about your data flows, partners, and systems in plain language. No technical background required.
02
Get your governance model
Modellot structures your business reality into a governed data model — entities, flows, contracts, and compliance posture in one place.
03
Stay compliant and in control
Export standardised contracts, share with partners, generate audit reports, and monitor compliance as your business evolves.
MODEL LOT ⬡ Lot Overview MODEL VIEWS ◈ Entity Model ◎ Actor Model ⟶ Flow Model ◷ Change Model ◉ Compliance ⬡ Partner Model ⚡ Impact Model OUTPUT 📄 Reports ◻ Contracts A Acme AB Free tier Lot Overview Your business model at a glance + Blueprint Export ODCS BLUEPRINTS 4 ↑ 1 ACTIVE CONTRACTS 18 ↑ 3 COMPLIANCE SCORE 84% PARTNERS GOVERNED 6 CONTRACT GDPR DATA ACT STATUS customer-onboarding-v2 Customer entity · Art.6(1)(b) Art.6(1)(b) Art.4 Governed stripe-billing-v2 Invoice entity · Payment processor Art.6(1)(b) Art.12 Renewing analytics-events-v1 Session entity · Anonymised data Art.6(1)(f) Missing Partial subscription-lifecycle-v1 Subscription entity Missing Missing Ungoverned shopify-orders-v3 Order entity · Commerce partner Art.6(1)(b) Art.12 Governed crm-customer-sync-v1 Customer entity · CRM access Art.6(1)(b) Art.4 Governed 84 GOVERNANCE SCORE Contracts 94% Compliance 80% Partners 100% Layer 4 60% Recent activity Contract activated · 2h ago Invoice entity updated · Yesterday Stripe connection added · 2d ago GDPR basis mapped · 3d ago Blueprint v2 published · 1w ago
See it in action

Watch the model come to life.

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Describe
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Extract
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Govern
Step 1 — Describe your business
Tell us about your business
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Analysing your business description…
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Business context AI DRAFT · 94%
🏢 Business model SaaS
B2B SaaS platform providing data governance tooling to EU founders and scaling businesses.
GDPR EU Data Act
◈ Entity ontology 4 entities
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prospect active churned
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draft active
GDPR Art.6(1)(b) EU Data Act Art.4
Governance score
84%
Ready to export
ODCS v3.1.0 ✓
What Modellot does

Governance as agility

Most businesses treat data governance as a constraint — something that slows you down. We believe it should be the opposite.

When your data model is clear, your business can move faster. Partners trust you more. Audits take hours, not weeks. Compliance is built in, not bolted on.

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Core
Internal
Partner B
Internal
Partner C
Analytics
Founding members

Join before we launch

We're opening Modellot to a small group of founding members before public launch. Founding members help shape the product — and get access on terms that won't be available later.

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Early access
Be among the first to use Modellot before the public launch. Shape the product with your feedback.
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Founding member pricing
Lifetime discount on Pro — locked in permanently as a thank-you for joining early.
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September-ready
Have your data governance in place well before the EU Data Act deadline hits your industry.
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