AI Compliance in Under 5 Seconds — From Your Terminal
Inside ten months, Colorado's AI statute was delayed, judicially stayed, and then repealed before it ever applied. Over the same stretch the EU pushed its high-risk regime back and let its transparency duties land on schedule. Most companies building with AI have no idea which of those touches them. We built a way to find out in the time it takes to brew a cup of coffee.
The Deadline Everyone Planned Around No Longer Exists
Colorado SB 24-205 was going to be the first US state law regulating how companies develop and deploy “high-risk AI systems.” It was signed in 2024, delayed once, judicially stayed, and then repealed outright by SB 26-189 roughly six weeks before it would have applied. Its duty of reasonable care, its algorithmic impact assessments and its NIST AI RMF rebuttable presumption are not law, and never were. If you built a plan around them, you built it on something that never arrived — and we were one of the sites telling you to.
What replaced it is narrower, and real. SB 26-189 attaches on January 1, 2027: Disclosure and individual rights for automated decision-making technology in consequential decisions: pre-decision notice, explanation, correction and human appeal, plus 3-year record retention. Enforced by the Attorney General with a 60-day cure period that sunsets 2030-01-01.
The EU moved in the opposite direction. Its high-risk obligations were pushed back by the Digital Omnibus on AI — standalone Annex III systems to December 2, 2027, and AI embedded in already-regulated products to August 2, 2028 — but the Article 50 transparency duties were left exactly where they were, and they have applied since August 2, 2026. If you ship a chatbot to EU users, or generate synthetic audio, images, video or text for them, that one is not approaching. It is here.
None of which made the work optional. SOC 2 auditors are asking about AI governance controls. GDPR regulators keep issuing guidance on automated decision-making. The landscape moved from “eventually” to “now” while most teams were heads-down shipping features — it just did not move to the date anyone had written down.
That is the durable lesson, and it is not “watch the calendar harder.” Of the dates teams put in their 2026 compliance plans, some slipped by sixteen months and one statute vanished entirely. Governance you can prove beats compliance you scheduled, because a record of what your system actually did survives a change in the law, and a countdown does not.
The Current Options Are Not Great
We talked to over 40 engineering teams about how they handle AI compliance. The answers were remarkably consistent:
- “We hired a consultant.” — $10K to $50K. Took 6 to 12 weeks. Delivered a PDF nobody read. Outdated by the time it arrived.
- “We assigned it to legal.” — Legal does not know what a transformer is. Engineering does not know what Article 6(1)(f) means. Everyone is frustrated.
- “We are ignoring it.” — Bold strategy. Ask the companies that ignored GDPR how that worked out.
- “We built something internal.” — Now you maintain a compliance tool AND your actual product. Congrats on your new side project.
The gap is clear: developers need compliance information that is fast, accurate, affordable, and speaks their language. Not a 90-page legal brief. Not a $40K engagement. Not a dashboard they have to remember to log into.
Introducing dingdawg-compliance
One command. Free compliance score. Full governed reports from $199.
npx dingdawg-complianceNo signup. No API key. No dashboard. Just answers.
We built dingdawg-compliance because compliance should be a developer tool, not a consulting engagement. It runs where you already work — your terminal, Claude Code, Cursor — and gives you a compliance score in under 5 seconds.
The free tier gives you your score, your risk level, and your top 3 findings. No account required. No credit card. No sales call. If you need the full report with framework-specific gap analysis, remediation guidance, and signed certificates — that starts at $199.
How It Works
Three steps. The first one is free.
Install or run directly
# Add to Claude Code as an MCP server
claude mcp add dingdawg-compliance npx dingdawg-compliance
# Or just run it
npx dingdawg-compliance
Run a free quick check
# Get your compliance score instantly
quick_check
# Response:
{
"score": 67/100,
"risk_level": "HIGH",
"top_findings": [
"No documented AI impact assessment",
"Missing human oversight mechanism for automated decisions",
"No data governance policy for training data"
],
"frameworks_applicable": ["EU AI Act", "Colorado SB 26-189", "GDPR"]
}
Generate a full report
# Generate a governed compliance report
generate_report --tier starter --frameworks "eu_ai_act,colorado_admt"
# Output:
Report ID: rpt_3f8a2c...
Status: COMPLETE
PDF: https://dingdawg.com/reports/rpt_3f8a2c.pdf
Governance receipt: https://dingdawg.com/gov/rx_9d1e...
What the Report Covers
Every report is generated under auditable governance controls. You get a governance receipt URL proving every step was capability-checked, policy-evaluated, and logged. No other compliance tool does this.
EU AI Act
Risk classification, Annex III mapping, conformity assessment readiness, documentation gaps
Colorado SB 26-189 (ADMT)
Automated decision-making disclosure, pre-decision notice, explanation, correction and human appeal rights, 3-year record retention
SOC 2
AI-specific trust services criteria, automated decision-making controls, data governance alignment
GDPR
Article 22 automated decision-making, data protection impact assessment, transparency requirements
ISO 42001
AI management system alignment, risk treatment plans, performance monitoring
NIST AI RMF
Map, Measure, Manage, Govern functions assessment, risk profile generation
Built for How Developers Actually Work
We are developers. We built this for ourselves first. Here is what that means in practice:
- 01No signup for your first check. Run
npx dingdawg-complianceand callquick_check. That is it. Score in seconds. - 02No dashboard to babysit. It is a CLI tool. It runs in your terminal, in Claude Code, in Cursor. Wherever you write code.
- 03MCP-native. Works as a Model Context Protocol server. Your AI coding assistant can call compliance checks directly during development.
- 04Governed, not just generated. Every report comes with a governance receipt — cryptographic proof that the generation process was audited at every step.
- 05Plain language findings. “You need a documented human oversight mechanism for your credit scoring model” — not “see Article 14(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689.”
Pricing
One-time purchase per report. No subscriptions. No per-seat fees. Pay when you need a report, not every month.
| Tier | Price | Frameworks | Validity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $199 | EU AI Act + Colorado SB 26-189 | 30 days |
| Pro | $999 | + SOC 2 + GDPR + ECDSA-signed certificate | 90 days |
| Enterprise | $1,499 | + ISO 42001 + NIST AI RMF + Shadow audit | 90 days |
Compare that to $10,000–$50,000 for a traditional compliance consulting engagement that takes 6–12 weeks. A Starter report pays for itself the moment it identifies your first unaddressed regulatory gap.
Who Should Run This Today
- Startups building with AI — Your obligations changed twice in the last year without you touching a line of code
- CTOs tracking the EU AI Act — The transparency duties already bind you; the high-risk regime is the part you still have runway on
- Teams going through SOC 2 — Auditors are asking about AI governance. Have answers ready.
- Anyone using AI for decisions about people — If your AI touches hiring, lending, insurance, or healthcare, you are in scope
DingDawg provides automated AI compliance assessment tools. Reports are informational and do not constitute legal advice. Consult qualified legal counsel for your specific regulatory obligations.
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Free compliance score. No signup. No credit card. Under 5 seconds.