Amendment 001 — The Cochran Block, LLC
Description: Amendment No. 001 to the Operating Agreement of The Cochran Block, LLC. Chicken and Egg Bypass Protocol (CEBP) authorizing a one-time, capped, sunset-bound equity raise via a16z Speedrun, plus addition of Protocol P31 Unbreaking Software.

Amendment 001 · Filed 2026-04-16
Amendment No. 001 to the Operating Agreement of The Cochran Block, LLC
The Chicken and Egg Bypass Protocol (CEBP)
and the Unbreaking Software Protocol (P31)
Effective Date: April 16, 2026 · Original Agreement Effective: April 14, 2026

## 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"):

(a)Single Authorized Program. The sole authorized program under this Amendment is the a16z Speedrun accelerator operated by Andreessen Horowitz LLC. No other Dilutive Funding source, vehicle, or investor is authorized under this Amendment.
(b)Dilution Cap. Total cumulative equity dilution arising from this authorization shall not exceed twelve percent (12.0%) of the Company's fully-diluted membership interest, inclusive of all conversion rights, anti-dilution adjustments, and option pool reserves attributable to the authorized investor.
(c)Single Closing. This authorization permits one (1) closing event. Follow-on investments by the same investor, secondary sales of issued securities, pro-rata rights extensions exceeding the 12% cap, or convertible instrument conversions exceeding the 12% cap are NOT authorized by this Amendment and shall require a separate Article XV process.
(d)Sunset Conditions. This authorization, and the Company's ongoing acceptance of Dilutive Funding under it, shall expire upon the FIRST occurrence of any of the following ("Sunset"):

1. The Company achieving Five Million United States Dollars ($5,000,000) in trailing-twelve-month gross revenue;
2. The KNOXAI active operator directory reaching one hundred (100) vetted operators with active hardware-signing keys publicly verified;
3. The first federal criminal conviction in the United States citing KNOXAI forensic artifacts as evidence of CSAM contamination in or generated by an AI model;
4. Twenty-four (24) months from the Effective Date of this Amendment.

(e)Post-Sunset Posture. Upon Sunset, the Company shall return to strict adherence with Sections 12.1 through 12.3 of the Original Agreement. No further Dilutive Funding shall be accepted post-Sunset absent a separate Article XV amendment process explicitly contemplating such acceptance.
(f)Public Disclosure Requirement. This Amendment, including all subparagraphs of Section 12.4, shall be publicly published at `cochranblock.org/operations/amendment-001` within twenty-four (24) hours of execution. The Company's public Manifesto at `cochranblock.org/manifesto` shall be updated within the same period to disclose the existence and terms of this Amendment. The Member shall not, in any Company communication or document, represent the Company as adhering to a strict no-equity posture during the period prior to Sunset without simultaneously and prominently disclosing the existence of CEBP.
(g)Mandatory Naming. This authorization shall be referred to in all Company communications and governance documents as the "Chicken and Egg Bypass Protocol" or "CEBP." Quiet implementation, omission of disclosure, rebranding, or euphemistic substitution shall be treated as a material breach of this Amendment by the Member.
(h)Use of Proceeds Restriction. Capital received under CEBP shall be deployed solely toward operational expenses of the KNOXAI program (operator compensation, infrastructure, hardware procurement, legal counsel for cert defense, and accelerator program participation), training and pipeline expenses (SkillBridge cohort support, VR&E partnership operations, academic outreach), and pursuit of Non-Dilutive funding sources intended to replace the CEBP capital post-Sunset. Capital shall not be deployed toward Member compensation in excess of fair-market salary for full-time founder labor as determined by the Member in good faith and documented in Company books per Article VIII.

## 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

(a)Survival of Other Provisions. Except as expressly amended herein, all other provisions of the Original Agreement remain in full force and effect.
(b)Conflicts. In the event of any conflict between the terms of this Amendment and the Original Agreement, this Amendment shall control during the period prior to Sunset. After Sunset, the Original Agreement controls in all respects, with Section 12.4 deemed expired but maintained in the public record as historical disclosure.
(c)Effect of Sunset. Upon Sunset, this Amendment shall remain publicly published at the URL specified in Section 12.4(f) for the perpetual transparency record of the Company. No subsequent edit to this Amendment shall remove or obscure its disclosure.
(d)Severability. If any provision of this Amendment is held to be unenforceable or invalid, the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect, and the unenforceable provision shall be reformed to the minimum extent necessary to render it enforceable while preserving the original intent of the Member.
(e)Governing Law. This Amendment shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Maryland, without regard to its conflicts-of-law principles, consistent with Article XVI of the 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.

/s/ Michael Cochran
Michael Cochran
Sole Member · The Cochran Block, LLC
Date: April 16, 2026
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF PUBLIC DISCLOSURE
This Amendment is published publicly at `cochranblock.org/operations/amendment-001`
and is referenced in the public Manifesto at `cochranblock.org/manifesto`
in compliance with Section 12.4(f).