Manifesto — KNOXAI
Description: KNOXAI · Manifesto. The mission, in the founder's words. Payment in any form, equity never, CSAM in AI never tolerated.

Manifesto · The Cochran Block, LLC · 2026-04-16

# MANIFESTO

I will take any and all forms of payment if it means I get to relentlessly ensure that CSAM in AI is never tolerated.

That's the whole thing. Everything below is just operational detail.

Forms of payment I will take

- ▸ cash, ACH, wire, Stripe
- ▸ crypto — BTC, ETH, USDC, whatever clears
- ▸ government contracts at any tier
- ▸ federal and state grants
- ▸ foundation grants — Knight, Mozilla, Ford, anyone funding child safety or AI integrity
- ▸ individual donations
- ▸ corporate sponsorship without strings
- ▸ in-kind: hardware, vaults, office space, hash-database licenses
- ▸ expert witness fees
- ▸ training contracts (SkillBridge, VR&E, university programs)
- ▸ honorarium · speaker fee for the rare engagement that fits the mission

Forms I will not take

- ▸ equity — except for one named, capped, sunset-bound exception (see The Bypass below). After sunset, never again. Article XII of the OA, as amended, binds this.
- ▸ payment that asks me to look the other way on a finding
- ▸ payment from a publisher whose model I'm currently auditing
- ▸ payment that compromises the methodology, the operators, the reporting pipeline, or the public blacklist
- ▸ payment from anyone whose books I cannot reasonably trace

Past those two lines: pay me however you want. Pay one of the operators. Pay a SkillBridge intern through their stipend. Sponsor a NCMEC partnership application fee. Underwrite a coin mint. Donate a fire safe. Cover a CBRN-specialist's bench. Sponsor a hash database license. Buy a guild dinner. The money is fuel. The mission is what I burn it for.

We are coming for the publishers shipping contaminated AI. Every shell corp will be traced. Every cert-fail will be reported to the regulator with jurisdiction. Every blacklist entry will be public, named, and indexed. Every model that quietly trained on CSAM-contaminated shards is a cert-fail waiting to happen and a NCMEC tip waiting to be filed.

We are not negotiating. We are not warning. We are not offering grace periods. We are not announcing audits in advance. We are auditing, finding, certing the clean, blacklisting the dirty, and reporting the criminal. If the publisher cooperates, they get a clean cert and a renewable revenue defense. If they don't, they get an indictment.

## The Bypass

Twenty-four hours after publishing this manifesto, I made the call to take a one-time equity round from a16z Speedrun. I'm naming it so it's honest, not hidden: Chicken and Egg Bypass Protocol (CEBP).

The math: pure non-dilutive runway (SBIR, foundations, gov contracts) takes six to twelve months to close. The mission needs operators on payroll and infrastructure scaled faster than that. Speedrun gives ~$750K for ~10% equity in weeks, with network access I can use immediately to recruit operators and reach Portfolio-tier customers. The marginal cost of one capped, sunset-bound dilution is dwarfed by the mission acceleration. I made the call. I'm naming it because founders who hide their compromises lose the trust; founders who name them earn it.

Binding terms (OA Amendment 001)

- ▸ One round only. Single program: a16z Speedrun. No follow-ons authorized.
- ▸ 12% maximum total dilution.
- ▸ Sunset at the FIRST of: $5M ARR, 100 active operators, first federal CSAM-AI conviction citing KNOXAI forensics, OR 24 months — whichever hits first.
- ▸ After sunset: strict non-dilutive forever. No further amendments contemplated.
- ▸ Use of proceeds restricted to KNOXAI ops, training pipeline, and pursuit of Non-Dilutive funding to replace CEBP capital post-sunset.
- ▸ Public disclosure mandatory. This section IS that disclosure.

The full amendment lives at cochranblock.org/operations/amendment-001 — formal Article XV legal document, signed, dated, public. Companion amendments /amendment-002 (MMLC revenue framework), /amendment-003 (pitch deck), and /amendment-005 (Irony Roasting Protocol) follow. Full index at /constitution. The /no-quarter doctrine still holds. The /sovereignty page still holds. The OA still holds. One named, capped, sunset-bound exception. That's it.

Same amendment also adds Protocol P31 — Unbreaking Software to the OA's protocol stack. Sits above P26-P30 as the meta-protocol: every piece of software the Company builds must repair systems rather than disrupt them, reinforce institutions rather than bypass them, strengthen trust rather than extract attention. Software that fixes things, not software that breaks them.

No quarter for predators. Let's get em.

The full operational doctrine — eight levers, eleven harm classes, reporting pipelines, ledger — lives at cochranblock.org/no-quarter.
The Operating Agreement that binds The Cochran Block, LLC to all of this lives at cochranblock.org/operations.
The complete governing stack — OA, every ratified Amendment, doctrine, proofs, protocols — indexed at cochranblock.org/constitution.

Michael Cochran · Operator #0 · Founder
USCYBERCOM Offensive Cyber Operator · The Cochran Block, LLC
Manifesto published 2026-04-16 · knox.cochranblock.org