Code After: Law, Accounting, and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence (v0.9, April 2026) is the foundation of the project. It is an open-access manuscript of roughly 55,000 words that diagnoses four structural gaps through which the governance of AI fails and proposes a constitutional framework designed to close them. It was released through Zenodo with a persistent DOI and is also shared through SSRN and ResearchGate. It has begun to draw responses from scholars and practitioners across la