Section I · Recitals

WHEREAS the Operating Agreement of The Cochran Block, LLC was duly executed by the Member on April 14, 2026 (the "Original Agreement");

WHEREAS Article XII of the Original Agreement establishes a binding policy that the Company shall accept only one hundred percent (100%) Non-Dilutive Funding, as defined in Section 1.13;

WHEREAS the operational mission of KNOXAI — auditing, certifying, blacklisting, and reporting AI models contaminated with CSAM and other illegal or dangerous content as detailed at cochranblock.org/no-quarter — requires capital deployment at a tempo that pure Non-Dilutive Funding sources cannot deliver in the founding phase;

WHEREAS the Member has identified a specific accelerator program — the a16z Speedrun program operated by Andreessen Horowitz, LLC — that can supply such capital in exchange for a single-time, capped equity dilution materially smaller than the mission acceleration thereby enabled;

WHEREAS the Member determines that the marginal harm of one disclosed, capped, time-limited dilution is dwarfed by the operational impact of the resulting capital, and that the integrity of the Company's non-dilutive posture is preserved by naming, capping, sunsetting, and publicly disclosing the exception rather than implementing it quietly;

WHEREAS the Member further wishes to add a new Protocol P31 (Unbreaking Software) to Article XVIII (The Cochran Block Operating Protocols) as the meta-protocol governing the philosophical orientation of all Company-originated software; and

WHEREAS this Amendment is executed pursuant to the authority granted in Article XV of the Original Agreement.

NOW THEREFORE, the Original Agreement is hereby amended as follows:

Section II · Amendment to Article XII (Funding Policy) — The Chicken and Egg Bypass Protocol

A new Section 12.4 is hereby added to Article XII of the Original Agreement, immediately following Section 12.3:

12.4 Chicken and Egg Bypass Protocol (CEBP)

Notwithstanding Sections 12.1, 12.2, and 12.3 of the Original Agreement, the Company is hereby authorized to accept one (1) Dilutive Funding round from a single accelerator program, on the following terms (the "CEBP"):

Section III · Amendment to Article XVIII (Operating Protocols) — Addition of Protocol P31

Article XVIII of the Original Agreement is amended to include the following new Protocol, inserted after Protocol P30:

P31 — Unbreaking Software

The Company commits to building software that repairs systems rather than disrupts them, reinforces institutions rather than bypasses them, strengthens trust rather than extracts attention, heals damage rather than scales harm, and cannot be broken by an attacker because the architecture is sovereign.

P31 is the meta-protocol governing the philosophical orientation of all Company-originated software. It sits above and informs P26 (Moonshot Frame), P27 (Diamond Rust Binary Architecture), P28 (Plasma Timing Discipline), P29 (Dual-Laser Separation), and P30 (Swarm Observability Is Non-Negotiable). Where P26 asks "would this hold up at civilization scale," P31 asks the precondition: "is this software fixing something, or breaking something?"

Software the Company will not build: extractive attention products, harm-scaling infrastructure, trust-eroding intermediaries, surveillance systems against citizens, and systems whose value depends on the user's confusion.

Software the Company will build: tools that strengthen the institutions of safety, audit, attribution, and reputation, with sovereignty in their architecture and integrity in their governance.

Tag commits applying P31 with [P31] in the message. Repos passing P31 are eligible for the shield P31 Unbreaking Software.

Section IV · Integration with Original Agreement

Section V · Execution

The undersigned Member, being the sole Member of The Cochran Block, LLC, acting in such capacity and pursuant to the authority granted in Article XV of the Original Agreement, hereby executes this Amendment as of the Effective Date set forth above.