Scanara vs Systima Comply — EU AI Act Compliance Comparison

How Scanara compares to Systima Comply for EU AI Act compliance. Developer-native scanning vs compliance questionnaire approach.

TL;DR

Systima Comply is a compliance questionnaire platform that guides organisations through EU AI Act obligations via structured self-assessments. It is a useful starting point for understanding your obligations. Scanara goes further: automated code scanning, Annex IV documentation generation, and continuous compliance monitoring that keeps pace with your development cycle.

Overview

Systima Comply is a compliance questionnaire platform that helps organisations assess their EU AI Act obligations through guided self-assessments. Users answer structured questions about their AI systems, and the platform maps responses to specific regulatory requirements, generating a gap analysis and remediation checklist. This approach works well for initial scoping and legal team engagement.

The fundamental limitation of the questionnaire approach is that it is only as accurate as the answers provided — and those answers go stale as codebases evolve. Scanara uses automated code scanning to derive compliance state directly from the source, ensuring findings reflect the actual system rather than a manually completed self-assessment.

Feature comparison

Feature	Scanara	Systima Comply
Compliance assessment approach	Automated code scanning — findings from source	Questionnaire-based self-assessment
EU AI Act code scanning	Yes — static analysis, 10+ languages, article-level	Not available
Annex IV documentation	Auto-generated from scan results	Template-based manual documentation
Continuous monitoring	Scans on every PR, CI/CD gate	Point-in-time questionnaire updates
GitHub integration	Native GitHub App, PR annotations	Not available
Annex III classification	Automated from codebase	Questionnaire-derived
Audit trail	WORM audit log, timestamped and signed	Questionnaire response history
Best for	Engineering teams, continuous compliance	Initial obligation mapping, legal teams

When to choose each

Choose Scanara if:

✓You need compliance findings derived from your actual codebase, not self-reported answers
✓You need compliance to keep pace with a continuous development cycle
✓You need audit-ready Annex IV documentation on demand
✓Your engineering team needs developer-native tooling

Systima Comply may suit you if:

•You are in the early scoping phase and need a structured obligation inventory before you have code to scan
•Your legal team needs a questionnaire-based process to engage business stakeholders on AI risk
•You are managing compliance for non-technical AI systems without a meaningful codebase to scan

Code scanning vs questionnaires

Findings stay current as code changes

A questionnaire reflects the state of your AI system when it was filled in. Code changes every sprint. Scanara scans on every pull request, so compliance findings are always current. A questionnaire that was accurate three months ago is not a reliable basis for an audit response today.

Evidence-based vs assertion-based

Questionnaire responses are assertions. Scanara findings are evidence — specific file names, line numbers, and code patterns that a regulator can verify. When an auditor asks "how do you know?", the answer from Scanara is a scan log. The answer from a questionnaire is "because we said so."

Developer engagement

Questionnaire-based compliance is typically owned by legal and compliance teams with limited engineering visibility. Scanara surfaces compliance findings directly in the developer's workflow — in the PR, in the terminal, before code merges — making compliance a shared engineering responsibility.

Move beyond questionnaires to code-level compliance

See how Scanara scans your actual codebase and generates evidence-based compliance findings instead of self-reported assertions.

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How Scanara Helps

Scanara automates EU AI Act compliance from code to dossier. Connect your GitHub repos and get compliance reports in minutes.