DRM3 provenance is infrastructure that makes compliance provable. The EU AI Act enforcement deadline is August 2026. Articles 12, 13, 14, and 17 require transparency, record-keeping, human oversight, and quality management for high-risk AI systems. DRM3 creates cryptographic proof at the moment of operation. Every receipt is signed before the next operation begins. The proof is inseparable from the data. A third party can verify any receipt without access to the system that created it. That is the difference between reporting compliance and being compliant.