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How the Automated-Decision Transparency & Disclosure Scorecard gate works
How the Automated-Decision Transparency & Disclosure Scorecard scores a decision system's disclosures across weighted controls — then a told-and-recourse gate forces UNDISCLOSED when the subject isn't told or has no route to recourse, so a mid score with a missing recourse pair still reads undisclosed.
How the gate works
This tool grades each automated decision system about a person on the transparency duties every major regime now shares. Each control is marked from your own evidence and weighted into a 0–100 score — and then the score is run past a gate that can only make the verdict worse.
The 6 weighted controls
| Signal | Weight |
|---|---|
| Use of automation disclosed to the person | 20 |
| Meaningful-logic & adverse-reason explanation | 20 |
| Human review / appeal with authority to overturn | 18 |
| Opt-out / data-correction path where required | 16 |
| Scope & significant-decision mapping | 14 |
| Notice retention & decision recordkeeping | 12 |
| Total | 100 |
The verdict bands
Two duties are non-tradeable. The gate forces UNDISCLOSED if the person was never told an automated system made the decision, OR if there is no recourse at all — no human appeal AND no opt-out — regardless of the score. Either a human appeal or an opt-out satisfies recourse; the gate worsens only, and never promotes a verdict.
In the worked sample it scores 66 out of 100 and still reads UNDISCLOSED — This tenant-screening score is fully disclosed and explained — the person is told, given a reason, and the decision is scoped and logged — for a 66 that on points alone reads GAPS. But it offers no recourse of any kind: no human who can overturn the outcome and no opt-out. The told-and-recourse gate fires, because a decision the person can't challenge isn't defensible, so it reads UNDISCLOSED, not GAPS. Add either an appeal or an opt-out and it clears. The one thing to fix first: Human review / appeal with authority to overturn — stand up a trained reviewer who can actually overturn the outcome, or open an opt-out path; either one satisfies recourse and releases the gate..
Common questions
Can something score well on the How the Automated-Decision Transparency & Disclosure Scorecard works and still fail?
Yes. The weighted score is run past a worsen-only gate — the Told-and-recourse gate — that can only make the verdict worse. In the worked sample it scores 66 out of 100 and still reads UNDISCLOSED, because this tenant-screening score is fully disclosed and explained — the person is told, given a reason, and the decision is scoped and logged — for a 66 that on points alone reads GAPS. But it offers no recourse of any kind: no human who can overturn the outcome and no opt-out. The told-and-recourse gate fires, because a decision the person can't challenge isn't defensible, so it reads UNDISCLOSED, not GAPS. Add either an appeal or an opt-out and it clears.
What is a worsen-only gate?
A dispositive rule that can only lower a verdict, never raise it. One fatal flaw overrides an otherwise-good score, because a single disqualifying gap shouldn't hide behind a high average. The tool also names the one thing to fix first — here, "Human review / appeal with authority to overturn — stand up a trained reviewer who can actually overturn the outcome, or open an opt-out path; either one satisfies recourse and releases the gate.".
Not legal advice. A readiness aid that grades your transparency process from your own marks — date-agnostic and people-blind, it encodes no statute's deadline, grades a decision system rather than any person, and renders no compliance ruling. Automated-decision duties (the CCPA ADMT rules, Colorado SB 26-189, GDPR Article 22, ECOA/FCRA adverse-action) vary by jurisdiction and change often — confirm which apply to you and every deadline with qualified counsel.
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