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These requirements derive directly from the EU AI Act. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 defines obligations for AI system providers including Article 50 transparency requirements. ENISA’s AI cybersecurity guidance provides the technical implementation baseline.
Launch Ready Code benchmark: most AI-assisted SaaS applications we assessed lacked the transparency disclosure mechanisms required under Article 50 of the EU AI Act at the time of their first scan. — LRC scan data, 2026
Launch Ready Code has scanned 700+ applications. Most ship with at least one critical finding, and the average Launch Readiness Score is ~44 out of 100 — LRC scan data, 2026.
Research sources
- OWASP Foundation — OWASP Top 10 Web Application Security Risks (2021), the industry-standard vulnerability taxonomy referenced for all security categories in this article
- MITRE Corporation — CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses (2024), the weakness classification used to rank and prioritise code-level findings
- NIST National Vulnerability Database — NVD CVE severity ratings; all CVSS scores cited here are drawn from published NVD records
- Jai Mittal, Founder & CTO, Launch Ready Code — Proprietary data from 700+ AI-built app security audits, 2025–2026. Average Launch Readiness Score: 44/100. Most common critical failures: missing HTTP security headers (83% of scans), no rate limiting on auth endpoints (71%), exposed API keys or secrets (67%), absent database Row Level Security (58%).