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Source methodology
AI Compliance Atlas is an informational reference for AI compliance research. The methodology below explains how source records are selected, verified, and refreshed before they appear in law, framework, guide, news, and tool pages.
Last updated 2026-06-29
Source hierarchy
Primary sources control the factual record. Secondary commentary can help identify a topic or market phrase, but it is not used as the authority for legal status, effective dates, penalty amounts, obligation text, or framework requirements.
Primary legal sources
State legislature bill pages, enrolled act text, codified statutes, agency rules, court orders, and official enforcement materials.
Standards and framework publishers
NIST pages and publications for the AI Risk Management Framework, ISO publication pages for ISO/IEC 42001 and related conformity-assessment standards.
Agency guidance
Federal and state regulator guidance, FAQs, business guidance, rulemaking notices, and implementation pages.
Secondary sources
Used only as discovery leads or competitive context. Secondary commentary does not replace primary-source verification on factual law and framework claims.
Verification workflow
- A law page records the official source URL, supporting source URLs, and a last-verified date from the latest source review.
- A framework page records the publisher URL, release/version dates, supporting source URLs, and a last-verified date.
- A news or update page records the event date separately from the date the page was updated.
- When a primary source changes a legal status, effective date, penalty amount, or enforcement date, the structured data is updated before the summary copy is expanded.
- If a primary source cannot support a claim, the claim is not published as fact.
Freshness and change handling
The site separates source freshness from build time. Page freshness fields such as last_verified and last_content_update are set from source review activity, not from deployment timestamps. High-change topics, including effective dates, enforcement delays, court stays, and state-law preemption activity, are treated as watch items.
Interactive tool outputs
Tool results are generated from the same structured law and framework records used by the reference pages. Tool outputs remain informational and are not a substitute for advice from qualified counsel.
Error reports and corrections
Factual corrections are made against the underlying source data first, then reflected in page copy, sitemap freshness, and related tools. Coverage gaps and suspected errors can be sent through the contact page.