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Compliance Engineering

Practical AI compliance for engineers and founders. Weekly. Written by Michael K. Onyekwere, CIPP/E certified, building AI compliance documentation for systems people actually ship.

Practical AI compliance for engineers and founders. Weekly. By Michael K. Onyekwere.

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What you get

Weekly practitioner essays

One topic per issue. 1,500-3,000 words. Real architecture, real cases, real citations. Written for someone who has to actually implement the thing, not for a board deck.

What GDPR and the EU AI Act actually require

Not the theory. The specific paragraphs that apply when you're shipping an AI chatbot, integrating an LLM API, or wiring up a document processor. What goes in your DPIA. What changes in your privacy notice. What your DPO will ask for.

Enforcement, deadlines, and what to do about them

EU AI Act high-risk obligations live August 2, 2026. NDPC is enforcing in Nigeria. The ICO is fining. Each issue covers what's changed and what you should do this week.

Subscriber-only deep dives (paid tier, coming soon)

Paid tier launching later this year. Full DPIA templates, vendor due diligence frameworks, and monthly Q&A. Free tier stays substantial.

Who it's for

CTOs and engineering leads building AI features
Founders shipping AI products into the EU or UK
DPOs and compliance leads who need to understand the technical side
Nigerian fintechs facing NDPA compliance and CBN AML deadlines
Anyone tired of compliance content written by people who've never deployed an LLM

About Michael

CIPP/E certified data protection professional. 10+ years across Royal Bank of Scotland, Fidelity, TMF Group, and UnitedHealth, doing financial services and corporate compliance at enterprise scale.

Common law qualified lawyer (LLB, LLM). Now building AI systems and writing the compliance documentation alongside them: chatbots, deepfake detection, agent trust scoring.

What I write here is the work, on a weekly cadence, for people who care about both shipping things and not getting fined.

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