AB 2013 is already in effect — and it has no size threshold. The same California AI laws written for billion-dollar labs apply to you, without the legal team they have.
DeadlineSF is the compliance shield for small California AI teams. We find one live violation and hand you the fix — free — then close the rest at a price a small shop can actually pay. Big players have a compliance department. You have us.
I build DeadlineSF to protect and educate my people — and all people — so AI rules written for billion-dollar labs don’t erase the builders still climbing.
I don’t ask for trust. I prove it — by giving something small but valuable away first. That free 3-line patch isn’t a teaser. It is the pitch. One real gap. One real fix. No card. No strings. Help first, always.
The first teams crushed by California AI law are not the labs with legal departments. They are small shops, independent founders, students shipping products, community tools, and anyone who was never supposed to afford “compliance theater.”
This lifeline is plain English, free patches first, prices a real shop can pay. Education before fear. Armor before jargon. Only after you’ve felt the gift do we invite you deeper — Gap Audit, full fix, monitoring. Every paid package is still review-ready and attorney-reviewed. Honesty is part of the protection.
If you are building something that helps people and the deadline is breathing down your neck: this lane is for you. I am not a law firm. I am a founder who refuses to leave our people unarmed while the rules change under our feet.
We keep it to what actually reaches a small California AI company — no eight-jurisdiction sprawl, no enterprise theater. Just the two that matter for you right now.
Any developer that builds, fine-tunes, or substantially modifies a public generative-AI system available to Californians must publish specific training-data disclosures. There is no user-count minimum — it applies to you.
Provenance disclosures, an AI-content verification tool, and latent disclosure for generated content. SB 1000 (moving in the Assembly) would delete the current 1M-user carve-out — pulling in the small teams too.
No $12,500 rush bundles here. This is the lifeline lane: fix one thing free, then move up only as far as you need.
Real person (Nicholle), real answer. Start with the free patch, or just ask.