# Ampliro > Independent management consultants for AI. From the leadership decision to > everyday work, and the client owns the result. Based in Stockholm, working > in Sweden, the Nordics and the wider EU. Ampliro AB is vendor-independent: no partner programmes, no commission on a model choice. Written in English and Swedish; every page exists in both. ## Core - [About Ampliro: the person you meet does the work](https://ampliro.com/about): Independent AI advice with no commission from any vendor. The senior who scopes the engagement stays accountable throughout. Stockholm, and a member of SAMC. - [AI consulting in eight defined engagements](https://ampliro.com/capabilities): Eight AI capabilities for companies and public bodies, each with a scope, a price and an end. Where you start depends on what you have already decided. - [Careers and the Ampliro Network: two ways in](https://ampliro.com/careers): Two ways in: employment at Ampliro, or the Ampliro Network, where you keep your own practice and are engaged per assignment, named and approved by the client. - [Contact](https://ampliro.com/contact): Contact Ampliro. One conversation about the question on your desk. Email, phone and postal address for Ampliro AB in Stockholm. - [AI terms: the words that decide the cost and the liability](https://ampliro.com/definitions): Thirty-four AI terms explained for the people who decide: what the word means, what it gets confused with, where it sits in the EU AI Act, and the decision it leads to. - [EU AI Act compliance: what applies to you](https://ampliro.com/eu-ai-act): EU AI Act compliance without the panic: which duties apply now, which deadlines come next, and why most of what you run is not high-risk. Kept current. - [Independent AI consulting in Sweden and the Nordics](https://ampliro.com/): We take AI initiatives all the way into operation, and you own the result. No partner programmes, no lock-in. Bounded engagements at a fixed price. - [Which AI duties apply in your sector](https://ampliro.com/industries): Nine sectors, read honestly: which AI duties apply where you work, which do not, and what it takes to get AI into daily use. - [AI analysis: the rules, the technology, the practice](https://ampliro.com/insights): Analysis from Ampliro on what is changing in AI: the rules, the technology, what works in practice, and what a decision needs to rest on. - [News](https://ampliro.com/news): Agreements, appointments and milestones from Ampliro, stated plainly and dated. Press enquiries answered the same day. - [Nordic units: you can decide more than you think](https://ampliro.com/nordic-units): For the Nordic unit of a group owned abroad: what you can decide locally is wider than it feels, and the written case is built for the owner to say yes to. - [How to buy Ampliro: fixed price, complete file](https://ampliro.com/procurement): Fixed scope, fixed price, defined deliverables. Engagements are sized to sit under the Swedish direct award threshold, and your file is complete the same day. ## Capabilities - [AI change management for tools you already pay for](https://ampliro.com/capabilities/adoption-change): Deployed is not adopted. AI change management that makes tools stick where the work happens: measured before, designed into the workflow, measured after. - [Corporate AI training starts with a plan](https://ampliro.com/capabilities/ai-competence): Before you buy corporate AI training, get the plan: which role needs which capability, who owns it, and how it holds when the tools change again. - [AI Readiness Assessment in weeks, not quarters](https://ampliro.com/capabilities/ai-readiness-assessment): A fixed-scope, fixed-price diagnosis of where AI creates real value in your operation, and a prioritised plan your leadership team can decide on. - [AI advisory services: decisions, not a deck](https://ampliro.com/capabilities/ai-strategy-advisory): Enterprise AI strategy for Nordic leadership teams: what is worth building, what should wait, and what deserves a no. Defined, fixed-price engagements. - [AI automation consulting: autonomy that is earned](https://ampliro.com/capabilities/automation-agents): The market sells autonomy. We build automation that holds in operation, and agents where they have earned their place: bounded, evaluated, and owned by you. - [Fractional chief AI officer, without the hire](https://ampliro.com/capabilities/fractional-ai-leadership): A fractional chief AI officer you can't yet justify hiring full time: a standing counterpart for your leadership team, monthly and defined. Never operations. - [AI governance consulting: built to be owned](https://ampliro.com/capabilities/governance-compliance): Governance you own and run: the inventory, the classification, the AI policy people actually follow, and the processes that survive an audit. Built with you, then yours. - [AI implementation consulting that ends in a handover](https://ampliro.com/capabilities/implementation): AI implementation consulting from the leadership decision into everyday use: built to production criteria, run until it holds, handed over on a date. ## Industries - [Unemployment funds: two supervisors, one trap](https://ampliro.com/industries/associations): IAF recommends AI-based controls. Data protection is IMY's table. For funds and unions we build the risk selection and the impact assessment together. - [Food and consumer goods: the AI rules barely apply](https://ampliro.com/industries/consumer-goods-food): The AI rules you keep hearing about barely apply here. The value is in three processes: forecasting, planning and quality documentation, on your own data. - [Defence: the AI exemption follows the purpose](https://ampliro.com/industries/defence-security): The EU AI Act exemption for defence follows the purpose, not the industry. AI as decision support, built where your security analysis allows, owned by you. - [Energy: critical infrastructure got lighter rules](https://ampliro.com/industries/energy-infrastructure): Critical infrastructure got lighter AI rules than expected. We classify with evidence and design the incident process that survives NIS2 and the EU AI Act. - [EU AI Act for financial services: what is high-risk](https://ampliro.com/industries/financial-services): DORA asks whether a technology failure can disrupt you. The EU AI Act asks whether the system can harm your customer. Exactly two use cases are high-risk. - [AI in manufacturing: from pilot to the line](https://ampliro.com/industries/industrial-manufacturing): Mid-size manufacturers: AI from promising pilot into daily use, as decision support on your own data. And the heavy AI rules barely touch your factory. - [EU AI Act for healthcare, pharma and medical devices](https://ampliro.com/industries/life-sciences-healthcare): What the EU AI Act means for healthcare, pharma and medical devices in the Nordics, and what it takes to get a validated model into daily use. - [Professional services: you sell hours, AI eats hours](https://ampliro.com/industries/professional-services): For law, audit, engineering and agency firms: AI is a business-model question before a technology one. Built on your archive, owned by the firm. - [Fundamental rights impact assessment for public bodies](https://ampliro.com/industries/public-social-sector): What the fundamental rights impact assessment means for a public body, and how AI gets from pilot to the case handler's screen. Fixed price, fixed scope. ## Policies - [Cookie Policy](https://ampliro.com/policies/cookies): This site sets no cookies for analytics or marketing, so there is no consent banner. What we measure instead, and what would change if that ever changed. - [Data Protection Policy](https://ampliro.com/policies/data-protection): How Ampliro works with personal data in practice: the principles we apply, what happens before a tool touches client material, and what we do if something goes wrong. - [Data Subject Rights Policy](https://ampliro.com/policies/data-subject-rights): How to exercise your rights over personal data Ampliro holds: what to send, what happens next, how long it takes and where to complain. - [Privacy Policy](https://ampliro.com/policies/privacy): How Ampliro AB handles personal data: what this website collects, what happens to an enquiry, how long we keep things, and the rights you can exercise. - [Recruitment Privacy Notice](https://ampliro.com/policies/recruitment-privacy): What happens to your application to Ampliro or the Ampliro Network: what we collect, why, who sees it, how long we keep it and the rights you have. - [Terms of Service](https://ampliro.com/policies/terms): The terms that apply to your use of ampliro.com: what the content is and is not, who owns it, and the limits of our responsibility for it. ## Insights - [Who is bound by the EU's cloud and AI proposal](https://ampliro.com/insights/cloud-and-ai-development-act-who-is-bound): The proposal binds Member States and Union entities, not private users. For suppliers the requirements arrive through the customer and through recognition. - [Do you have to prove your staff are AI literate](https://ampliro.com/insights/eu-ai-act-article-4): EU AI Act Article 4 requires measures to support AI literacy, but contains no documentation duty. What you keep is your decision, not a requirement. - [Who decides when your AI agent has to be rebuilt](https://ampliro.com/insights/ai-agent-cost-of-model-changes): Providers publish shutdown dates for their models, and the notice periods differ sharply. What a model change does to an AI agent you already run. - [Shadow AI is not a security threat to lock out](https://ampliro.com/insights/shadow-ai-governance): Shadow AI is not mainly a security threat. 57% of employees hide their AI use, and AI Act Article 4 and the GDPR already make it your duty. - [AI Act Article 50: what actually has to be labelled](https://ampliro.com/insights/ai-act-article-50-labelling): Article 50 has applied since 2 August 2026. The marking duty sits with the provider, and three of the five disclosure duties are your own. - [What the DORA regulation requires of your provider's providers](https://ampliro.com/insights/dora-regulation-subcontracting): Since July 2025 your provider must ask before it subcontracts. The DORA regulation still leaves final responsibility for the chain with you. - [A chief AI officer is countable. Who decides is not](https://ampliro.com/insights/who-owns-ai-decisions): IBM reports 76 per cent with a chief AI officer, up from 26. That comparison figure comes from a different survey with a different population. - [Food manufacturing bought AI for language, not for production](https://ampliro.com/insights/food-manufacturing-ai-language-not-production): Swedish food producers using at least one AI technology rose from 4.71 to 21.39 percent. AI for production processes fell from 2.03 to 0.70. - [What an AI readiness assessment measures, and what it must never claim](https://ampliro.com/insights/what-an-ai-readiness-assessment-measures): Self-reported figures on AI use are floors, not levels. What a readiness assessment measures, and the difference between a diagnosis and a score. - [Which authority supervises the AI Act in Sweden](https://ampliro.com/insights/ai-act-sweden-supervision): Sweden has divided the AI Act between five authorities. The split follows the point numbers in Annex III, not industry, and the assignment ends this year. - [Who NIS2 covers in Sweden, and who decides it](https://ampliro.com/insights/nis2-scope-who-is-covered): Sweden's Cybersecurity Act sets its scope in six provisions and only two make size a condition. Essential or important decides supervision, not coverage. - [Why last year's benchmark figure cannot be compared with this year's](https://ampliro.com/insights/ai-benchmark-scores-are-not-comparable): METR changed method and the same models moved 57 per cent. OpenAI dropped SWE-bench Verified. Epoch calls GPQA saturated. - [Who reports what when NIS2, DORA and the AI Act overlap](https://ampliro.com/insights/nis2-dora-ai-act-incident-reporting): Sweden's Cybersecurity Act exempts DORA firms from incident reporting. The two cyber clocks never run together. The AI Act deadline sits with the provider. - [The DORA register lists your AI without calling it AI](https://ampliro.com/insights/dora-register-of-information-ai): DORA Article 28(3) covers AI bought as a service without ever naming AI. Swedish entities filed by 28 February; the regulator analyses it in 2026. - [Two reporting clocks start when an AI system fails in critical infrastructure](https://ampliro.com/insights/ai-incident-reporting-critical-infrastructure): The AI Act allows two days, not fifteen, for a serious incident in critical infrastructure. Sweden's cybersecurity act allows 24 hours. - [When an AI agent is ready for production, and when a rule is enough](https://ampliro.com/insights/when-is-an-ai-agent-ready-for-production): The difference between succeeding once and succeeding every time decides what an AI agent costs. On pass^k, rerun cost, and when a rule is enough. - [The Machinery Directive is going. What governs the AI inside](https://ampliro.com/insights/eu-machinery-directive-and-ai): Machinery left the EU AI Act's high-risk requirements on 27 July 2026. The Machinery Regulation applies from 20 January 2027, the AI rules from 2 August 2028. - [What actually stops AI in healthcare, and which deadline now applies](https://ampliro.com/insights/what-actually-stops-ai-in-healthcare): High-risk obligations for medical device AI apply from 2 August 2028, not 2027. On the deadline that moved, and the obstacle healthcare regions actually report. - [Europe has caught up on adoption. It has not caught up on use](https://ampliro.com/insights/europe-ai-adoption-caught-up-breadth-of-use): The share of firms running generative AI is the same in the EU as in the US. The share running it in more than two activities is not. - [The EU AI Act high-risk deadline moved. Four things did not](https://ampliro.com/insights/eu-ai-act-high-risk-deadline-postponed): High-risk obligations now apply from December 2027 and August 2028. Transparency from 2 August 2026, the prohibitions and the penalties did not move. - [Who from the union was there when the digital system arrived](https://ampliro.com/insights/safety-representatives-digital-systems): A union asked its safety representatives how often they are involved when digital systems arrive. In retail, 36 percent said never. Members are positive. - [Machine logs can be analysed before the integration is built](https://ampliro.com/insights/machine-data-analysis): Rockwell puts the share of collected data used effectively at 43 per cent. A pass over 16,316 maintenance logs corrected the maintenance type on 24.5 per cent. - [Who gets the hour AI saves](https://ampliro.com/insights/hourly-billing-ai-professional-services): 71 percent of in-house counsel expect their firms to change commercial models. 28 percent of law firms have changed pricing because of AI. - [Which AI tools are actually being used, and where that shows](https://ampliro.com/insights/which-ai-tools-are-actually-being-used): Over a third of software licences sit unused while AI spend is the fastest-growing category and is bought outside IT. On the data you already have. - [Who decides whether the data may sit with an American provider](https://ampliro.com/insights/cloud-act-where-data-may-sit): CLOUD Act follows the provider's control over the data, not the server's location. Sweden's cloud policy leaves the assessment with each organisation. - [AI is no longer a licence cost. It is a consumption nobody owns](https://ampliro.com/insights/ai-costs-from-licence-to-consumption): AI moved from a licence cost to a consumption cost, and budgets were built in the old mould. How to measure cost per outcome and give the line an owner. - [What the protective security analysis must say about AI tools](https://ampliro.com/insights/protective-security-analysis-ai-tools): Swedish law does not say what a protective security analysis must contain. The regulations do, and which set applies depends on your supervisory authority. - [Do you know whether your AI programme worked, and what would show it](https://ampliro.com/insights/do-you-know-whether-your-ai-programme-worked): A third of Nordic organisations have AI in production across the business, but a quarter have no formal metrics for whether it worked. - [The most expensive AI project is the one that never got a no](https://ampliro.com/insights/the-most-expensive-ai-project): On the claim that 95 per cent of AI programmes return nothing, what it actually rests on, and why the early no is still the most valuable decision. - [Is AI banned in security-sensitive work, and what do the rules actually say](https://ampliro.com/insights/is-ai-banned-in-security-sensitive-work): Sweden's Security Service has no general AI ban. The requirements concern separation and follow the security classification. ## Svenska - [AI-förordningen (EU AI Act): vad som gäller er](https://ampliro.com/sv/ai-forordningen): AI-förordningen (EU AI Act) förklarad: vilka krav som gäller er redan i dag, vilka datum som kommer, och varför det mesta ni kör ligger utanför högriskreglerna. - [Vilka AI-krav som gäller i just er bransch](https://ampliro.com/sv/branscher): Nio branscher, ärligt lästa: vilka AI-krav som gäller där ni verkar, vilka som inte gör det, och vad som krävs för att få AI i daglig användning. - [Oberoende AI-konsult för företag och offentlig sektor](https://ampliro.com/sv): Vi tar AI-initiativ hela vägen in i daglig användning, och ni äger resultatet. Inga partnerprogram, ingen inlåsning. Avgränsat uppdrag till fast pris. - [Kontakt](https://ampliro.com/sv/kontakt): Kontakta Ampliro. Ett samtal om frågan som ligger på ert bord. E-post, telefon och postadress till Ampliro AB i Stockholm. - [Om Ampliro: den ni möter är den som gör jobbet](https://ampliro.com/sv/om-oss): Oberoende AI-rådgivning utan provision från någon leverantör. Den senior som ramar in uppdraget ansvarar för det hela vägen. Säte i Stockholm, medlem i SAMC. - [AI för företag: åtta tjänster, ett arbetssätt](https://ampliro.com/sv/tjanster): Åtta AI-tjänster för företag och offentlig sektor, var och en med en omfattning, ett pris och ett slut. Var ni börjar beror på vad ni redan har bestämt. - [Insights](https://ampliro.com/sv/insights)