{"id":189103,"date":"2026-02-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/denver-hopes-4-6m-for-artificial-intelligence-will-speed-up-development\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T06:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:20:12","slug":"denver-hopes-4-6m-for-artificial-intelligence-will-speed-up-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/denver-hopes-4-6m-for-artificial-intelligence-will-speed-up-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver hopes $4.6M for artificial intelligence will speed up development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/denverite.com\/2026\/02\/20\/denver-hopes-4-6m-for-artificial-intelligence-will-speed-up-development\/\">Denver hopes $4.6M for artificial intelligence will speed up development<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/denverite.com\/2026\/02\/20\/denver-hopes-4-6m-for-artificial-intelligence-will-speed-up-development\/\">https:\/\/denverite.com\/2026\/02\/20\/denver-hopes-4-6m-for-artificial-intelligence-will-speed-up-development\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-20 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"denverite.com\">denverite.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Denver City Council evaluates a $4.6 million contract with ComplyAI for its CivCheck tool to expedite the city&#8217;s development process and plan reviews.<\/li>\n<li>Long permit delays prompted a 2024 state audit and the formation of a new permitting office by Mayor Mike Johnston, which has reduced the average review time from 90 to 63 days.<\/li>\n<li>Major delays continue due to incomplete applications and unpredictable surges in permit demand.<\/li>\n<li>The city aims to implement AI-guided intake through CivCheck to reduce errors and streamline the review process.<\/li>\n<li>The planning department faced significant layoffs, including some responsible for manual plan review work, as part of broader municipal cuts.<\/li>\n<li>CivCheck aims to automate tasks previously done by plan review specialists, check application completeness, offer immediate feedback, and reduce review cycles.<\/li>\n<li>Data collected will not be used for training purposes, human oversight will be required, and compliance follows data retention policies.<\/li>\n<li>The system\u2019s implementation is not expected to cause more layoffs. The city council committee has unanimously approved the contract, awaiting council approval.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver hopes $4.6M for artificial intelligence will speed up development https:\/\/denverite.com\/2026\/02\/20\/denver-hopes-4-6m-for-artificial-intelligence-will-speed-up-development\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-20 06:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wp-denverite.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/250311-DOWNTOWN-DENVER-CONSTRUCTION-CRANES-SKYLINE-CITYSCAPE-KEVINJBEATY-02.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-189103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189105,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189103\/revisions\/189105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}