Justinian codified Roman law in 529 AD. We just made a city publish its own.
Corpus compiles, indexes, and makes searchable the body of the law — and renders each provision into plain language. When governments refuse to publish their own code, we track every day of silence until they do.
What is Corpus?
By the 6th century, Roman law was an unsearchable thousand-year sediment of overlapping edicts. Emperor Justinian's jurists compiled, de-duplicated, and indexed all of it into one authoritative body — the Corpus Juris Civilis. Three centuries later the Basilika translated that body out of elite Latin into the Greek that ordinary citizens actually spoke.
Corpus does both jobs for modern law: it structures gatekept municipal, state, and federal code into one searchable corpus (the Justinian act), and it renders each provision into plain language (the Basilika act). Toggle between dense legal text and plain English on any provision.
The Transparency Gap
State law requires municipalities to make their codes publicly available. Some refuse. Corpus tracks every FOIA request, every missed deadline, every day of non-compliance — pressure with receipts. The Philadelphia release is the first proof the method works.
The campaign, in the open
Every Mississippi municipality, plotted. Counties shade by how much of their code we've published; each dot is a town we track — lit where a public-records request is already on file. Click any lit municipality to open its ledger, or zoom out to the nation.
Belisarius — Autonomous Corporate Counsel
Corpus reads the law. Belisarius acts on it. An autonomous agent that forms real legal entities in Mississippi end-to-end — bridging modern financial rails to legacy government portals that have no API, under a non-bypassable human approval gate. Built on the same Stripe and FOIA plumbing already shipped in Corpus.
The founder pays a Stripe Checkout link covering state fee + registered-agent fee + Corpus margin. The margin is the revenue line.
Stripe Issuing mints a single-use virtual card loaded with the exact state filing fee, merchant-locked so over-spend is structurally impossible.
An RPA sub-agent files on corp.sos.ms.gov, then intercepts and parses the Certificate of Formation PDF and delivers it with a full audit trail.
Two irreversible acts, two human gates
Moving money and submitting to the government are each fronted by a non-bypassable approval. Every step appends to an append-only ledger — the agent earns, spends, and runs a real operation without ever acting unsupervised on the irreversible steps.
Why it needs NVIDIA
Statutes are a web of cross-references that chunked RAG destroys. Our roadmap holds entire state and municipal codebooks un-chunked in active context via subquadratic sparse attention — the continued-pretraining loop the DGX Spark is built to run. Long-context reasoning and long-horizon agentic workflows are the same capability.