DIRECTION, WITH PURPOSE

Build the next useful thing.

A deeper S-corporation engine now. Individual returns next. A future that other practitioners and engineers can help shape.

A durable direction, without artificial release dates.

Now

A deeper S-corporation engine.

Alpha 14 human testing, broader conventional operating-business coverage, professional qualification, and workflow polish.

Human testing

Use the richer synthetic examples and practitioner review to challenge preparation, source recovery, review and output. Alpha 14 is the human-testing generation; engineering evidence and human acceptance remain distinct.

Conventional operating businesses

Deepen the supported S-corp workflow across owners, basis, assets, inventory, rentals, investments and the interactions between them. Expansion is accompanied by boundaries and regression work.

Professional qualification and polish

Make corrections easier to resolve, explanations easier to follow, and actual forms and saved packages easier to inspect. Broader qualification should test the complete workflow, not only final totals.

Follow the Alpha story

The individual return.

Form 1040 architecture and implementation, a synthetic hosted showroom, stronger integration boundaries, and broader comparison work.

Form 1040

Build a separate household and individual-return architecture, beginning with a narrow complete preparation path. Carry forward evidence, deterministic calculations and professional control without copying corporate assumptions.

A synthetic showroom

Make hands-on product evaluation possible in a future hosted demonstration using synthetic cases. This public website is the current showcase; it does not host the tax engine or accept taxpayer information.

Stronger connections and comparisons

Develop useful integration boundaries and broaden comparison and qualification work. A relationship with another product does not itself establish a working connector.

Explore the 1040 direction

Beyond

A project others can shape.

An intended open-source release, documented APIs, additional return types, state expansion, and a contributor ecosystem.

An open-source future

Prepare for a release that would let practitioners and engineers inspect, modify, integrate, fork and contribute under the eventual license. The project remains private today.

Documented APIs and extensions

Define stable interfaces around source evidence, reviewed facts, preparation and saved output. Make room for firm-specific workflows without losing professional authority or traceability.

Broader tax domains

Consider additional return types, state expansion and a contributor ecosystem as the architecture and qualification evidence support them. These are directions, not present coverage claims.

Why open source matters

WHAT GUIDES THE SEQUENCE

Complete the path.
Then widen it.

A feature is more than a form name in a menu. It needs established inputs, researched rules, workpapers, diagnostics where appropriate, actual output and a reviewable place in the preparation workflow.

Each expansion also inherits obligations to the work already completed: preserve source history, keep old cases reproducible, identify stale output and make unsupported situations explicit.

That is why the sequence follows useful complete returns and architectural questions. Professional feedback can change the order. The principles should survive that change.

Read the ten principles

CURRENT PUBLIC GENERATION

Alpha 14 — human testing and broader operating-business coverage

The working product is the bounded S-Corp Engine. Form 1040, public APIs, a hosted demo and open-source rights are future direction. Prepared output is distinct from e-filing, transmission, signatures and IRS acceptance.

Read the full project brief

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