The Colorado AI Act Compliance Cliff: What Agent-Builders Need to Do Before June 30
June 30, 2026. Put it on your calendar. Circle it. The Colorado AI Act (SB 205) takes effect in 55 days. Not next year. Not "whenever the EU gets around to enforcing." Fifty-five days from today. If you read our EU AI Act / Colorado field guide (Article 014), you know the basics: risk classification, consequential decisions, developer and deployer obligations. Maybe you thought "I have time." You don't. This is the compliance wake-up call. What specifically needs to be done before June 30, what the law actually requires in practice, and where most agent-builders are dangerously unprepared. The Date Nobody's Watching Everyone's watching the EU AI Act. Its limited-risk transparency obligations start in August 2026, high-risk compliance lands in August 2027. The EU AI Act is the biggest, most ambitious AI regulation in the world. It gets the headlines. The Colorado AI Act is smaller. One state, narrower scope, consumer-protection framing rather than co...