Prague · Czech Republic

Czech Institute
for AI and Data

We teach Czech companies to work with artificial intelligence, and we help them adopt it and verify it independently.We teach Czech firms to use AI and help them adopt and independently verify it.

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Training first.
Then AI in operation.

At the training people try AI on tasks from their own work. Then we put one activity into operation.

AI training with a Czech Labour Office subsidy

A syllabus, attendance records and a certificate help document that the company trains its people in AI.

The Labour Office reimburses up to 478 Czech crowns per hour and participant, for tuition and wages alike. The condition is a course of at least 50 hours, and ours is built for it.

Subsidised training

AI adoption in your company

For work that slows you down, like preparing quotes, we build an AI agent. A person checks and approves its output.

AI adoption

Where AI
saves you work.

Contracts

A 40-page contract

AI pulls out the deadlines, penalties and the places where you carry the risk.

Spreadsheets

A spreadsheet nobody understands

You ask in plain language. AI calculates the result, draws a chart and shows how it reached the number.

Routine

Work that repeats every week

Orders, email replies, weekly reports. AI prepares them, a person checks them and sends them.

Prohibited AI use:
up to €35 million or 7 % of turnover.
AI bans: up to €35m or 7 % of turnover.

Maximum fines · Article 99

  1. up to €35 millionor 7 % of turnover

    Prohibited practices, such as manipulating people or social scoring.

  2. up to €15 millionor 3 % of turnover

    Selected other obligations, such as telling a customer they are communicating with AI.

  3. up to €7.5 millionor 1 % of turnover

    False or incomplete information given to the authorities.

Percentage of worldwide annual turnover, the higher amount applies. For small and medium enterprises the lower of the two amounts applies. AI literacy (Art. 4) has no cap of its own in Article 99.Percentage of worldwide turnover. The higher amount applies, for SMEs the lower one. AI literacy (Art. 4) has no cap of its own.

When each obligation starts to apply

  1. Ban on dangerous practices and the duty to train people in AI

  2. A chatbot must say it is AI. AI-made videos and photos must be labelled

  3. Further bans, such as intimate images of people created by AI without their consent

  4. High-risk AI, for example in recruitment or lending

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 on artificial intelligence (AI Act)Regulation (EU) 2024/1689Directly applicable in Czechia, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744.Applies directly in Czechia, amended by (EU) 2026/1744. EUR-Lex

The EU flag here marks a European Union regulation. CIAD is not a body or institution of the EU and does not act on its behalf.

Based on the consolidated text of 27 July 2026, checked on 4 October 2026. An informational overview that does not replace legal advice.

Article 4 requires companies that provide or use AI to take AI-literacy measures matched to people's roles, knowledge and actual use. It prescribes no single course and no certification (European Commission Q&A). The AI Act checkup shows which obligations apply to your company.Article 4 asks for AI-literacy measures by role. It prescribes no single course or certification. Commission Q&A.

How the training works.

ARRANGE TRAINING
  1. Tasks from your field

    Exercises tailored to your work, with no live data.

  2. Everyone tries it themselves

    Give AI a task and learn to spot when it is wrong.

  3. We choose what to adopt

    One activity that AI takes over first.

  4. You receive the documents

    A syllabus, an attendance record and rules for working with AI.

AI safely.
Data, control, accountability.

Data and tools

Sensitive data belongs only in tools the company has approved.

Checking the results

Numbers, facts and sources are checked against the original.

Supervised automation

Every automation has clear permissions, a checkpoint and a stop button.

Czech firms are catching up.
We want them to lead.
Firms are catching up.
We want them to lead.

An independent registered institute based in Prague. We take no money from the vendors whose tools we assess and we sell no technology.An independent registered institute in Prague. We take no money from vendors we assess and sell no technology.

Our own measurements are published with the data and methodology.

ABOUT US

What companies ask
before they write to us.

What is CIAD and what does it do for companies?

CIAD is an independent registered institute. We teach Czech companies to work with artificial intelligence on their real work with documents, spreadsheets and repeated tasks, help them adopt a first concrete use case and independently verify AI systems before they receive sensitive data. Alongside that we measure how the Czech web and companies work with AI, and we publish the results. We are not tied to any AI vendor and we sell nothing off the shelf.

What does it mean that CIAD is on the consumer side?

The purpose of the institute, as entered in the register, includes protecting and educating consumers of services that use AI and alerting the public to entities that use AI unethically. In practice this means we measure and publish how AI is actually used in Czechia, and we advise companies so that their use holds up before customers too. No vendor pays us, so we have no reason to embellish anything.

What is the EU AI Act and who does the AI literacy obligation apply to?

Article 4 of the AI Act, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, applies to providers and deployers of AI systems. It requires them to take measures supporting AI literacy according to role, knowledge, experience and how AI is actually used. It is an obligation of effort, not of result: a company does not have to guarantee the level of any individual. The regulation does not prescribe one course or certification.

How does company AI training work and what does the organisation document?

First we identify roles, real tasks and the target outcome. Then people spend one day working with AI on tasks from their field, in person or remotely, and at the end we choose with management a first use case to develop. The syllabus, attendance records and role-based rules help you document the measures taken under Article 4. They are not a legal opinion or an automatic confirmation of compliance.

How does independent verification of an AI system work?

Together we define the system, data, permissions and abuse scenarios that make sense for your deployment. We test them in a targeted way and hand over findings with documented impact, severity and a remediation plan. After the fix we verify that it holds. The detailed procedure is described on the audit process page.

How is CIAD different from security and consulting firms?

We take no money from vendors whose tools we evaluate, and we sell no technology we would then recommend to ourselves. We are a registered institute whose purpose is to protect those who use AI. We back our conclusions with our own published studies with data and methodology, so anyone can verify them.

What does the first step of working together look like?

In a short message you describe the roles, tools used and the work you want to change. We come back with a proposed format: training, adoption of a concrete use case, or verification of a system. Pricing follows the concrete scope and we quote it on request.

Book training for your team.

Tell us who you want to train. We will reply with a proposal and work out how much a Czech Labour Office subsidy can cover.Tell us who to train. We will reply with a proposal and work out what a Czech Labour Office subsidy can cover.

Office
Příčná 1892/4
110 00 Prague 1

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