An age-prediction system and a biometric age-verification service produce the same effect on a user account through entirely different processing. Public documentation does not establish, for either, when a compliance assessment was produced relative to deployment — nor whether an individual determination is preserved in a form a third party could later verify. This case study examines the gap under the AI Act and the GDPR, and what an independent, pre-execution seal can and cannot establish about it.

Any organization that determines, through an automated system, an individual's status produces a qualification whose evidentiary trace it alone retains. SOURCE 0 QUALIFICATION SEAL fixes a determined representation of that qualification, at a timestamped instant, independently of the system that produced it — without ruling on its accuracy, effective application, or lawfulness. First documented use case: age determination.