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.