AI Compliance Lawyer in California
Astraea Counsel tells AI companies which laws actually bind them — California’s SB 53 and transparency statutes, the multi-state patchwork, and the EU AI Act obligations that reach US companies.
Lead attorney: Chanté Eliaszadeh, Founder & Principal
- Licensed in California · State Bar No. 335803 — verify
- Consultations scheduled directly with the attorney, not an intake desk
When AI companies call us
- You need to know whether California’s frontier-AI law reaches you, and everyone in the room is still arguing about a bill that was vetoed
- You operate in several states and roughly 100 AI measures were enacted in 2025, with federal preemption now moving against them
- You serve EU users and need to know which EU AI Act obligations switch on, and when, notwithstanding the deferrals the market is relying on
- Your product is a generative-AI system approaching the user threshold where California provenance and watermarking duties attach
- You are a developer subject to training-data disclosure obligations and have never inventoried what the model was trained on
- An investor or enterprise customer has asked for an AI regulatory compliance memo and you need one that is accurate rather than reassuring
What engagement gets you
- A direct answer on California: SB 53 is the state’s operative frontier-AI law, effective January 1, 2026, and most startups fall below its threshold — the vetoed SB 1047 that founders name is not the law
- AB 2013 training-data disclosure analysis for developers, and California AI Transparency Act provenance and watermarking analysis for covered providers — generative-AI systems above 1,000,000 monthly users — including AB 853 (Stats. 2025, ch. 674), which extends those duties to large online platforms and GenAI hosting platforms from January 1, 2027
- A multi-state compliance map with a working framework for operating across jurisdictions, rather than fifty separate memos
- EU AI Act exposure assessed on the timeline that governs: Article 50 transparency duties and Commission enforcement over GPAI models switch on August 2, 2026, and the deferrals the market is counting on are not yet law
- A read on the live federal picture — the Algorithmic Accountability Act, CREATE AI Act, and AI Foundation Model Transparency Act of 2026, the July 2025 America’s AI Action Plan, and the December 2025 preemption order — and what it changes for your posture
Recognition
- Quoted throughout "AI Agents Can Move Money – Lawyers Say Nobody Knows Who's Liable," part four of Sandmark's seven-part Agentic AI series (August 6, 2026), Chanté Eliaszadeh
- Author, "Complying With Calif. Crypto License Law's 11th-Hour Rewrite," Law360 Expert Analysis (August 13, 2026) — Chanté Eliaszadeh and Brandon Orewyler
- Astraea Counsel ranked in Chambers USA: Spotlight 2026 — Fintech (Los Angeles)
- Lawdragon 500 X — The Next Generation: Crypto Regulation, Disputes, Blockchain (2026), Chanté Eliaszadeh
- 2024 Law360 Distinguished Legal Writing Award, The Burton Awards — Chanté Eliaszadeh, co-author (White & Case)
- Panelist, American Bar Association Business Law Section 2026 Spring Meeting — Financial Services Technology Joint Subcommittee, on use cases tied to agentic-AI payment flows
Common Questions
Does California’s frontier AI law apply to my startup?
Probably not, and the confusion is usually about the wrong bill. SB 1047 — the bill most founders name — was vetoed. California’s operative frontier-AI statute is SB 53, effective January 1, 2026, and most startups fall below its threshold. That does not end the analysis: AB 2013’s training-data disclosure duties reach developers regardless of frontier status, and the California AI Transparency Act reaches generative-AI systems above 1,000,000 monthly users. The right question is not whether you are a frontier lab but which specific California statute your product touches.
Does the EU AI Act reach a US company?
It can, and the timing is where companies are being misled. The Digital Omnibus taught the market that the EU AI Act got delayed, and that lesson is half wrong in the most expensive direction: Article 50 transparency obligations and Commission enforcement over general-purpose AI models still switch on August 2, 2026, and the deferrals many companies are relying on are not yet law. A US company placing an AI system on the EU market or serving EU users should be scoping against the dates that are actually in force.
How do we handle fifty different state AI laws?
Not by writing fifty memos. States enacted roughly 100 AI-related measures in 2025 after the federal moratorium was stripped on the Senate floor, and the federal government is now moving to preempt them, so any state-by-state inventory is stale on arrival. The workable approach is to identify the strictest obligation in each category that applies to your product — disclosure, provenance, automated-decision transparency, bias auditing — build to that, and track the preemption fight as a live variable rather than a settled question.
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