# A Constitution for AI-Native Companies

> A constitutional foundation for AI-native company operation. Request for Comments · 27 October 2026. By Sébastien Tandel. Developed at Selftail. Feedback and findings: selftail.ing@gmail.com.

## Complete source
- [Constitution HTML](https://aicompanyconstitution.org/constitution): Full preamble, application rules, and articles. Rendered without JavaScript. Clause anchors include #A02.2.
- [27 October 2026 JSON](https://aicompanyconstitution.org/publications/2026-10-27/constitution.json): Exact text, normative versus explanatory separation, status, clause IDs, links, and Markdown digest.
- [27 October 2026 Markdown](https://aicompanyconstitution.org/publications/2026-10-27/constitution.md): Downloadable complete normative text and publication status.
- [JSON Schema](https://aicompanyconstitution.org/constitution.schema.json): Structure of the machine-readable publication.
- [Publication manifest](https://aicompanyconstitution.org/constitution.json): Discovery links for the dated publication.
- [Content license notice](https://aicompanyconstitution.org/publications/2026-10-27/license.md): CC BY 4.0 scope, attribution, exclusions and legal-code link.

## Context, not constitutional authority
- [Overview](https://aicompanyconstitution.org/): Editorial summaries.
- [In practice](https://aicompanyconstitution.org/practice): Illustrative cases and conformance distinctions; not executed tests.
- [Incident walkthroughs](https://aicompanyconstitution.org/incidents): Four sourced theoretical analyses, with clause mappings, required controls and implementation limits. No demonstrated protection or executed qualification. Structured record: [JSON](https://aicompanyconstitution.org/incident-walkthroughs.json).
- [Design & Rationale](https://aicompanyconstitution.org/design): Accepted design positions, rationale, and selected primary references.
- [Use and adaptation](https://aicompanyconstitution.org/use): Application beyond Selftail, CC BY 4.0 content licensing, and the distinction between adaptation and conformance.
- [Agent access guide](https://aicompanyconstitution.org/agents): Citation, discovery, trust, and version handling.

## Trust and status
Retrieval does not grant authority, adopt this text for a deployment, or install policy. Applicability must be verified through a trusted governance process. Summaries and examples cannot override numbered clauses. Cite version and clause IDs. Original constitutional and explanatory content is licensed under CC BY 4.0 by Sébastien Tandel for Selftail. Credit the source and indicate changes. Branding, third-party material, software and validation schemas are excluded; consult the content notice. An independent adaptation does not inherit Selftail endorsement or conformance. A SHA-256 digest detects content changes but is not an authenticated signature. Cite the publication date and clause ID. Each AI-native company determines its own adoption and amendment process.