# Developers must supply deployers with documentation of the technology

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Colorado Senate Bill 26-189: Automated Decision-Making Technology (replacement of the Colorado AI Act)
- **Jurisdiction**: Colorado (United States)
- **Category**: technical_documentation
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2027-01-01

## In brief

Developers must supply deployers with documentation of the technology is a legal requirement under the Colorado ADMT law (SB 26-189) in Colorado (United States). Developers of automated decision-making technology must provide deployers with the documentation the statute lists, so that deployers can meet their notice, disclosure and review duties. It applies from 1 January 2027.

## What the duty requires

Developers of automated decision-making technology must provide deployers with the documentation the statute lists, so that deployers can meet their notice, disclosure and review duties.

## What an organisation does about it

Publish a deployer-facing documentation pack for each tool sold into consequential-decision uses.

## Controls that meet this duty

- Technical documentation, model cards and instructions for use (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/technical-documentation-and-model-cards
- Contractual allocation of AI duties across the supply chain (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/contractual-allocation-of-ai-duties

## Parent instrument

- Colorado Senate Bill 26-189: Automated Decision-Making Technology (replacement of the Colorado AI Act)
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-colorado-automated-decision-making-technology-act
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-colorado-automated-decision-making-technology-act.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/us-colorado-admt-developer-documentation
- **Official source**: https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb26-189
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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