Terms of Service & Commercial Engagement Framework

These Terms of Service ("Terms") constitute a legally binding agreement between you (whether an individual or representing an enterprise, "Client" or "User") and Rochon ("Rochon", "we", "us", or "our"), an independent AI research and engineering laboratory based in India.

These Terms govern your access to rochon.in, research notes, technical calculators, and all preliminary consultations. Formal engineering projects, on-premise hardware deployments, edge quantization engagements, and bespoke fine-tuning pilots are additionally governed by written Master Services Agreements (MSAs), Statements of Work (SOWs), and Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs).

Rochon operates on an unequivocal intellectual property moat designed for enterprise autonomy:

• Rochon Retained Assets: All website copy, brand marks, pixel sprites, interactive instruments, benchmark harnesses, and Lab Notes published on rochon.in remain the exclusive intellectual property of Rochon. • 100% Client Work Product Assignment: Unless explicitly agreed otherwise in an SOW, upon receipt of final contract payment, all custom model weights, fine-tuned LoRA/DoRA adapters, domain-specific tokenizers, quantization configurations (GGUF, AWQ, TensorRT engines), synthetic evaluation suites, and bespoke application code created specifically for the Client transfer completely and unconditionally to the Client. • Zero Royalty Moat: Rochon charges zero runtime licensing fees, per-token royalties, or recurring seat taxes on delivered models. The client retains unrestricted rights to inspect, host, modify, and commercialize delivered artifacts.

All engineering figures, latency distributions (e.g., p95, p99), power draw metrics (TDP), and memory budgets published on rochon.in represent empirical laboratory measurements performed on real silicon (including NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, NXP i.MX 93, Silicon Labs EFR32, and air-gapped NVIDIA RTX/L40S clusters).

Published benchmarks serve as empirical proof-of-concept and technical baselines. Specific runtime latency and throughput depend on batch sizing, concurrent query depth, context window length, thermal dissipation environments, and host operating system schedulers. Firm performance guarantees are established exclusively via formal Acceptance Criteria in client SOWs.

Rochon designs and delivers AI architectures engineered to comply with leading global AI regulatory regimes:

• European Union AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689): Models and private deployments are built to satisfy technical documentation, risk management, data governance, cyber resilience, and human oversight obligations for General Purpose AI (GPAI) and high-risk applications. • United States Governance & FTC Mandates: Adherence to FTC Section 5 transparency mandates, White House Executive Orders on Safe AI, and NIST AI Risk Management Framework (NIST AI RMF 1.0) standards, ensuring models operate deterministically without deceptive outputs. • Indian MeitY Directives: Alignment with advisory directives and algorithmic accountability standards promulgated by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the National AI Strategy. • MENA AI Frameworks: Compliance with the Saudi Data & AI Authority (SDAIA) AI Ethics Principles, UAE National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence 2031, and GCC regulatory guidelines.

Client acknowledges that artificial intelligence software, high-performance computing hardware (e.g., NVIDIA Hopper, Ada Lovelace, Blackwell architectures), and advanced cryptographic toolchains may be subject to national and international export control laws:

• United States: Export Administration Regulations (EAR, 15 C.F.R. Parts 730–774) and ITAR where military or dual-use defense components are involved. • European Union: Regulation (EU) 2021/821 governing the control of exports, brokering, and transfer of dual-use items. • India: Export controls under the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) and the Special Chemicals, Organisms, Materials, Equipment and Technologies (SCOMET) list. • Sanctions Compliance: Rochon does not contract with, transfer technology to, or engage with individuals, organizations, or governments subject to international sanctions administered by the United Nations, US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the European Union, or the Government of India.

To the maximum extent permissible under applicable law (including the Indian Contract Act, 1872, the Uniform Commercial Code in the US, and applicable EU/GCC commercial codes):

• The public website, research notes, and initial feasibility discussions are provided strictly on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis without warranty of any kind, whether express, statutory, or implied. • Limitation of Consequential Damages: Rochon, its founder, engineers, and affiliates shall not be liable for any indirect, special, punitive, exemplary, incidental, or consequential damages, including loss of profits, enterprise data corruption, system downtime, business interruption, or hardware failure. • Monetary Liability Cap: Rochon's total cumulative liability arising out of or related to website usage, exploratory consultations, or these Terms shall not exceed the greater of the aggregate fees actually paid by Client to Rochon during the three (3) months preceding the incident, or USD $1,000.

During technical assessments, parties may exchange proprietary system architectures, operational workflows, dataset schemas, and performance criteria:

Both parties agree to hold all disclosed information in strict confidence, applying at least a reasonable standard of care. Information will not be disseminated to third parties without prior written consent. These obligations align with the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA, 18 U.S.C. § 1836) in the US, the EU Trade Secrets Directive (Directive (EU) 2016/943), and common law trade secret protection under Indian jurisprudence.

Unless superseded by a mutually executed bilateral Master Services Agreement:

• Governing Law: These Terms and all non-contractual obligations arising out of them are governed by and construed in accordance with the substantive laws of India, without regard to conflicts of law principles. • Dispute Resolution & Arbitration: Any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms shall first be subject to thirty (30) days of good-faith commercial negotiation. If unresolved, the dispute shall be referred to and finally resolved by binding arbitration under the Rules of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) or the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). The seat of arbitration shall be Ahmedabad, India (or Singapore for non-Indian corporate counterparties). The language of arbitration shall be English. • Equitable Relief: Nothing in this clause prevents either party from seeking urgent injunctive or equitable relief before any court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property, trade secrets, or confidentiality covenants.

These Terms remain in effect throughout your access to rochon.in or during active preliminary technical assessments. Rochon reserves the right to suspend or terminate site access or discussions immediately upon notice for breach of these Terms or compliance violations.

If any provision of these Terms is adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that provision shall be severed or limited to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.