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The Axiom Foundation
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Computable law for all.

The Axiom Foundation publishes open, machine-readable encodings of the world's rules — statutes and regulations as cited, time-aware, executable code. Starting with tax and benefit policy.

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Tim Shaw of the Aspen Institute on the big swing needed for a better benefits system. The full announcement → axiom.org/blog/axiom-launch
Quote card on a dark background: “The Axiom Foundation is building a critical layer of that infrastructure, one our research has found missing…” Attributed to Tim Shaw, Director of the Benefits Transformation Initiative at the Aspen Institute. The Axiom Foundation wordmark below.
August 7, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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Professor @donmoyn.bsky.social, who studies administrative burden, on what an open, verified rules layer changes for the safety net.
The full announcement → axiom.org/blog/axiom-launch
Quote card on a dark background: “Unnecessary administrative burdens limit the reach of the safety net. Tools like Axiom are part of the solution…” Attributed to Donald Moynihan, Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan’s Ford School. The Axiom Foundation wordmark below.
August 4, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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So we publish the layer underneath: statutes and regulations as cited, time-aware, executable code. Every value cites its statute. Every clause carries its effective date. Over 3,000 encoded provisions at launch, starting with tax and benefit policy.
“The rule of law begins with access to the law. That’s why societies publish it — proclaimed in the square, printed in statute books, posted on websites. Our era’s medium is software, and for six years at PolicyEngine I’ve published tax and benefit law as open code. The limit was human bandwidth, and AI just broke it. So we built the Axiom Foundation to publish the law as code anyone can read, run, and verify — from taxes and benefits to the rest of the world’s rules.” — Max Ghenis, CEO and Founder, the Axiom Foundation
July 30, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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Every calculator, eligibility system, and policy tool translates the law from prose into something a machine can run. Most do it from scratch, differently, and out of public view. Same law, different answers, no way to check.
“I’ve spent my career inside and alongside government closing the gap between the policy we pass and the services people actually receive — including building benefits access tools and some of the earliest rules as code work in the U.S. AI has changed what’s possible and rules as code can now happen at the scale of the law itself. That’s what the Axiom Foundation makes real — an open digital layer between policy and delivery, so no one is guessing at what the law says, and government, builders, and AI models all work from the same playbook.” — Ariel Kennan, President, the Axiom Foundation
July 30, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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The Axiom Foundation is live. The rules that decide who gets food assistance, health coverage, or a tax credit have lived in closed code nobody could check. As of Tuesday, they're open: cited, computable, verified. axiom.org/blog/axiom-l...
July 30, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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The rules that decide who gets food assistance, health coverage, or a tax credit live in closed code — re-implemented privately in every system that needs them, checkable in none.

On July 28, the Axiom Foundation goes public to change that.

We're bringing computable law to all.
July 15, 2026 at 2:50 PM