Connecticut SB 5 · effective 1 October 2026

On 1 October, Every AI Subscription You Sell In Connecticut Needs A Written Notice. Which Of Yours Actually Have One?

Connecticut’s new AI law requires written notice of key subscription terms — usage limits, feature restrictions, your right to degrade the service, renewal terms — before every AI subscription starts or renews. Enforcement is the Attorney General, at up to $5,000 per wilful violation. The answer to “which of our products are covered” is currently spread across your checkout flow, your ToS and three people’s memories.

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4 elements
quantitative limits · qualitative limits
discretion to reduce · renewal terms
4 bands
no notice → incomplete → review due → compliant
sorted worst first, every time
$19
once, for the register and the evidence pack
no seats, no subscription, no account

The first AI-specific subscription disclosure law in any state

Buried in Connecticut’s 2026 omnibus AI act is a provision nobody’s checkout flow was built for: any business offering AI technology to a Connecticut consumer on a subscription basis must give written notice of key subscription terms before the subscription begins — and before it renews. The notice has to cover:

  • Quantitative limits on use — message caps, token or credit limits, generation counts, seats, rate limits.
  • Qualitative limits — feature restrictions and capability differences between tiers.
  • Any discretion you retain to reduce the quality, quantity or functionality of the service mid-term — model swaps, throttling, feature sunsets.
  • Renewal terms, disclosed again at each rollover for auto-renewing subscriptions.
$5,000 per wilful violation

Enforced exclusively by the Connecticut Attorney General as an unfair trade practice under CUTPA. Effective 1 October 2026. Per violation matters: an undisclosed limit on a product with thousands of CT subscribers is not one problem.

It tracks your notices. It does not write them.

There is no generated wording and no template notice in this app, on purpose — what your notice should say is a question for your counsel. What this holds is the operational answer: which subscription products have a delivered, dated notice covering all four elements, and which do not.

1

One record per product and tier

Pro Monthly and Team Annual carry different limits and different renewal terms, so they are different records. Each one holds the notice’s delivery method, delivery date, and what it actually says about each required element — evidence, not vibes.

2

“Nobody has looked” scores like a gap

An element nobody has checked against the delivered notice counts against the record, the same as one recorded missing. That is deliberate: the roster that looks clean because nobody looked is exactly the roster the AG’s office gets to look at first.

3

The discretion clause is the one everyone misses

If you retain the right to swap models, throttle usage or sunset features mid-term, that discretion must be disclosed — it is the most AI-specific element of the law and the least likely to be in your current checkout flow. The register gives it its own line on every record.

4

A dated evidence pack, when it matters

Print the register to a dated PDF: summary, disclosure matrix, and a detail sheet per product. When the question is whether a violation was wilful, a maintained, dated record of what you disclosed and when is the difference between a gap and a wilful one.

What it looks like

Five subscription products from one AI company. The register bands them worst-first, so whatever needs fixing before 1 October is always at the top.

CopyForge Inc. — CT subscription disclosure register
36 days to 1 Oct 2026
1
No notice
2
Notice incomplete
0
Complete — review due
2
Compliant
ProductTypeNoticeElementsStatus
VoiceStack AI — CreatorAcquired product line, no notice produced yet Auto-renewing None 0/4 No notice
CopyForge AI — Team AnnualDiscretion clause in the MSA but not in the notice Auto-renewing On record 3/4 Notice incomplete
PromptPilot — StarterTwo elements never checked against the notice Auto-renewing On record 2/4 Notice incomplete
PromptPilot — Fixed 12-monthInitial term, renewal element not scored Initial term On record 3/3 Compliant
CopyForge AI — Pro MonthlyThe reference record: all four elements, dated Auto-renewing On record 4/4 Compliant
Team Annual is the instructive one. The discretion-to-reduce clause exists in the MSA — but the law requires it in the notice, and nobody put it there, so the record holds at “Notice incomplete” on that one line alone. PromptPilot Starter looks fine until you notice two elements were simply never checked: in this register, “nobody has looked” is a gap with a name on it, not a blank cell.

Your options today are a compliance platform priced for enterprises with a general counsel, or a spreadsheet that does not know an unchecked element from a disclosed one. This is the thing in between: a purpose-built register for one new, dated, enforceable obligation — for $19, once, before the deadline does the auditing for you.

One file. One payment.

Buy it, open it, log your catalogue this afternoon. No account, no subscription, no seat count.

CT AI Subscription Disclosure & Renewal Compliance Log
$19
One-time purchase
Yours to keep. No renewal, no per-seat pricing.
  • Per-product register across auto-renewing and fixed-term subscriptions
  • All four required disclosure elements tracked with evidence fields
  • Renewal-specific terms scored only where the law applies them
  • “Not checked” kept apart from “not disclosed” — and both count against you
  • Four-band status engine sorted worst-first
  • Live countdown to the 1 October 2026 effective date
  • 90-day review window so compliant records cannot quietly go stale
  • Printable dated evidence pack: summary, matrix, per-product sheets
  • Plain-English summary of the requirement, penalty and citation built in
  • CSV export plus JSON backup, import and merge
  • Installs to your phone or desktop and works fully offline
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Instant access after payment. Runs entirely in your browser — no product names, terms or notes are ever uploaded.

Before you buy

Does it write the disclosure notice for me?

No, deliberately. There is no template wording and no generated notice anywhere in it. What a legally adequate notice says for your products is a question for your counsel; this app records whether each product has one, what it covers, and when it was last checked.

We are not based in Connecticut. Does this apply to us?

The law looks at the consumer, not your registered office. If Connecticut consumers can buy an AI subscription from you, the notice obligation is in play. Whether and how it applies to your facts is your counsel’s call — the register is where you hold the answer once they make it.

Our terms of service already mention usage limits. Are we covered?

That is exactly the question the register makes you answer per product rather than in general. The obligation is written notice of the specific terms before the subscription starts or renews — a clause somewhere in a ToS nobody is shown at checkout is the gap this law was written at. Record what the delivered notice actually says, element by element, and the band tells you where you stand.

What happens after 1 October 2026?

The countdown flips to “in effect” and the register keeps working exactly the same — because the obligation is per subscription and per renewal, it never becomes a finished project. The 90-day review window keeps every compliant record honest as limits, tiers and renewal flows change.

Where does the data go?

Nowhere. It is a single HTML file that stores everything in your own browser. You will be typing in product names, terms and internal notes, so that matters. Export a JSON backup or a CSV whenever you want a copy.