PMAID (PM AI Aid™): A Deterministic, EU AI Act-Aware Decision and Process-Design Framework for AI Delivery

PMAID (PM AI Aid™) is a local decision tool that tells a Technical Programme Manager whether AI fits a problem, classifies the intended system under the EU AI Act, and generates a governed eight-phase delivery plan. Recommendations come from a deterministic YAML rule engine, not a language model. An optional llama.cpp layer adds three labelled advisory features. The paper covers design principles, architecture, decision and screening logic, configuration, verification and limitations of version 1.2. Keywords: AI project management; decision support; rule engine; EU AI Act; risk classification; programme delivery; local LLM; governance Version: 1.2. Access right: Open access for the PDF (you choose, since the software licence is separate). Related identifiers: Is supplemented by (URL): https://github.com/shuvrobasu/PMAid Subjects (optional): Artificial intelligence; Project management; Regulation of AI Funding, grants, communities: none. References : Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act). Official Journal of the EU, 12 July 2024. NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0), NIST AI 100-1, 2023. ISO/IEC 42001:2023. Chapman et al., CRISP-DM 1.0, SPSS, 2000. Sculley et al., Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems, NeurIPS 28, 2015. Jiang et al., Mistral 7B, arXiv:2310.06825, 2023. llama.cpp, https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp