Axiom Foundation launches to publish law as open, verifiable code
9 hours ago
- Open, machine-readableencodings of laws, starting with tax and benefit policy, are cited, time-aware, and executable for anyone to run, audit, or reform.
- Current systems reimplement law from scratch, differently and opaquely, leading to no shared canonical source and difficulty in verification.
- The Axiom Foundation publishes a shared layer of statute-by-statute rules as code, openly and freely, creating one source of truth.
- Two open layers exist: primary text (gathered from official sources) and encoded rules (with citations, effective dates, composability, and verification).
- An AI-driven pipeline encodes statutes, logs decisions, and cross-checks results against independent engines like PolicyEngine and TAXSIM.
- The encoded law serves as ground truth for AI, enables calculators that self-audit, reform without rewriting, and government transparency.
- Everything published—code, data, and decisions—is open, ensuring public-interest work.