Forge Terms of Service

Effective Date: July 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") constitute a binding legal agreement between you, the individual or entity accessing or using the Forge platform ("you," "your," or the "User"), and Blecher LLC ("Blecher LLC," "we," "us," or "our"), the operator of Forge ("Forge" or the "Service"). By registering for an account, completing payment, accessing, or otherwise using the Service, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy and Responsible Use Policy, each of which is incorporated by reference. If you are entering into these Terms on behalf of a company or other legal entity, you represent that you have the authority to bind that entity, and "you" refers to that entity. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not access or use the Service.

1. The Service: A Tool for Compliance Screening

Forge is a supply-chain compliance verification platform. It ingests Bills of Materials ("BOMs") and screens the constituent components against regulatory regimes, including but not limited to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List, Section 889 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA 889), the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), the Blue UAS framework, and custom or imported regulatory regimes configured by the User. The Service produces per-component compliance verdicts, an accompanying evidence chain, and signed compliance certificates.

Forge is a decision-support and screening tool. It is designed to augment, accelerate, and organize the compliance review performed by qualified personnel. It is not a substitute for formal commodity jurisdiction analysis, formal export classification, physical inspection, destructive testing of electronic components, or the independent professional judgment of a licensed customs broker, export-control counsel, empowered official, or compliance officer. Any output of the Service is a screening result intended to inform, not replace, the User's own determinations. Nothing produced by the Service constitutes a definitive government determination, an official classification, or legal advice.

2. No Professional Relationship

Your use of the Service does not create an attorney-client relationship, a compliance-officer-client relationship, a customs-broker-client relationship, or any other professional, fiduciary, or advisory relationship between you and Blecher LLC. Blecher LLC does not act as your export-control counsel, your empowered official, your compliance officer, or your agent. The Service is a software tool that augments your own judgment and the judgment of your qualified personnel; it does not exercise that judgment for you. No communication with the Service, and no output generated by the Service, should be construed as legal advice or as professional compliance advice. You should retain and consult qualified professionals for any matter requiring formal classification, licensing, or legal determination.

3. User Responsibility and Final Authority

You are solely and exclusively responsible for all procurement, sourcing, export, re-export, transfer, and compliance decisions that you make, whether or not those decisions are informed by output of the Service. You retain final authority over, and sole accountability for, every such decision. You agree that you will independently review, validate, and verify all screening results, verdicts, evidence chains, and certificates produced by the Service before relying on them for any operational, contractual, or regulatory purpose. You must not treat any Forge output as a final, authoritative, or government-sanctioned determination. Where a screening result indicates a potential concern, a clearance, or the absence of a match, that result reflects the operation of automated screening logic against the data and regimes available to the Service at the time and does not relieve you of any independent duty of due diligence imposed by law or contract.

4. AI Services

The Service uses artificial intelligence and machine-learning models, including large language models, to perform tasks such as entity resolution, corporate-structure inference, manufacturer normalization, and classification of components against regulatory categories. AI output requires human review. Such output is probabilistic in nature and may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, internally inconsistent, or "hallucinated," and it may fail to reflect the current state of any regulation, list, or corporate ownership structure. Identical or similar inputs may produce different outputs on different occasions. Blecher LLC makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, regarding the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or fitness of any AI-generated output. You must not rely on AI-generated output without independent verification by a qualified person. Your use of AI-assisted features is at your own risk and responsibility.

5. Third-Party Services

The Service relies on third-party foundation-model providers and other third-party service providers to deliver certain functionality. Your use of features that depend on such providers is subject to those providers' own terms, and your use is at your own risk and responsibility.

Bring-Your-Own-Key (BYOK) Inference. Enterprise Users may configure the Service to route AI inference through the User's own credentials with a foundation-model provider ("BYOK"). When BYOK is configured: (a) you supply and control the applicable API keys or credentials; (b) the relationship, contract, and account are between you and your chosen foundation-model provider, and Blecher LLC is not a party to that relationship; (c) you are solely responsible for compliance with your provider's terms of service, acceptable use policies, usage limits, and pricing, and for all fees, rate-limiting, throttling, suspension, or termination imposed by that provider; and (d) Blecher LLC performs orchestration only — sequencing and delivering your workloads to the provider you designate — and does not sit in the commercial relationship between you and your provider. Blecher LLC disclaims all liability arising from the acts, omissions, availability, pricing, or enforcement decisions of any foundation-model provider you designate under BYOK.

6. Architectural Commitments

Blecher LLC makes the following architectural commitments with respect to the Service. These commitments describe how the Service is designed to operate and survive termination of these Terms.

(a) BYOK Encryption at Rest. Credentials that you supply for BYOK inference, together with sensitive fields of your data, are encrypted at rest. BYOK keys are stored encrypted and are used solely to route your designated inference workloads.

(b) Sovereign Library Grounding. Where the Service cites a regulatory provision, list entry, or authority in support of a verdict or evidence chain, it grounds that citation against primary source materials maintained in the Forge Sovereign Library rather than relying solely on generative recall. This grounding is designed to reduce fabricated or mis-attributed citations, but it does not guarantee that any cited authority is current, complete, or dispositive of your particular question.

(c) Zero-Retention Inference in BYOK Mode. When BYOK is configured, Blecher LLC does not retain the content of inference requests or responses that traverse your designated provider beyond what is transiently required to orchestrate and return the result to you. Screening results, verdicts, evidence chains, and certificates that you elect to save are retained within your account as described in the Privacy Policy.

Blecher LLC will provide no less than thirty (30) days' notice of any material change to the commitments in this Section, and you may terminate your subscription if you do not accept a material change. This Section survives termination of these Terms.

7. Intellectual Property

As between the parties, Blecher LLC owns and retains all right, title, and interest in and to the Service, including the Forge platform, its software, models, prompts, the Sovereign Library compilation, regime manifests authored by Blecher LLC, user interfaces, and all related intellectual property. No rights are granted to you except the limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and use the Service in accordance with these Terms during your paid subscription term.

You retain all right, title, and interest in and to the BOMs, component data, custom or imported regulatory regimes, and other content that you upload to or create within the Service ("User Content"). You grant Blecher LLC a limited license to host, process, and transmit User Content solely to provide and support the Service to you. As between you and Blecher LLC, and subject to any third-party foundation-model provider terms, output generated for you by the Service on the basis of your User Content ("Output") is owned by you; provided that you acknowledge that Output is generated by automated systems, may not be unique to you, and may be similar or identical to output generated for other Users, and that Blecher LLC retains ownership of the underlying Service that produces Output.

8. User Accounts

You must be at least eighteen (18) years of age to register for or use the Service. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information during registration and to keep that information updated. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. You must use a strong, unique password and must notify us promptly of any unauthorized use of your account. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is available and strongly recommended; where your organization handles sensitive or export-controlled data, you should enable MFA for all users. You are responsible for ensuring that each individual accessing the Service under your account complies with these Terms.

9. Fees, Subscriptions, and Chargebacks

Access to the Service requires a paid subscription. There is no free tier and no trial period; payment is required at registration. The Professional plan is billed at $499 per month (USD). The Enterprise plan is offered on a custom annual basis, with pricing and terms established in a separate order or agreement. All fees are stated exclusive of taxes, which are your responsibility.

Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period (monthly for Professional, annually for Enterprise) at the then-current rate, unless cancelled in accordance with Section 10. By subscribing, you authorize Blecher LLC and its payment processor to charge your designated payment method on a recurring basis. We will provide advance notice of any increase to your recurring subscription price no less than thirty (30) days before the increase takes effect; your continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the new price.

Except as expressly required by applicable law, all fees are non-refundable, and no credits are issued for partial billing periods, unused capacity, or downtime. You agree that initiating a chargeback, payment reversal, or dispute with your card issuer in respect of properly incurred and validly charged fees constitutes a material breach of these Terms. In the event of such a chargeback, we may immediately suspend or terminate your account and pursue recovery of the disputed amount together with any associated costs.

10. Cancellation and Termination

You may cancel your subscription at any time through the account management page within the Service. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your then-current billing period, and you will retain access to the Service through that date; auto-renewal will not occur thereafter. Enterprise cancellations are governed by the applicable order or annual agreement.

Blecher LLC may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, in whole or in part, immediately and without prior notice, if you materially breach these Terms (including the Acceptable Use Policy or a payment chargeback), if required by law, or if your use presents a security, legal, or operational risk to the Service or to other users. Upon termination, your right to access the Service ceases. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination — including Sections 3, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 — survive.

11. Acceptable Use Policy

You agree that you will not, and will not permit any person to: (a) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, models, prompts, or underlying structure of the Service, except to the limited extent such restriction is prohibited by applicable law; (b) use the Service to conduct competitive benchmarking, or to develop, train, or improve a competing product or service; (c) resell, sublicense, rent, lease, or otherwise make the Service available to any third party except as expressly permitted for your authorized users; (d) scrape, crawl, harvest, or use automated means to extract data from the Service other than through interfaces we expressly provide; (e) circumvent or attempt to circumvent any usage limits, access controls, authentication, or security measures; (f) upload malicious code or use the Service to transmit unlawful, infringing, or harmful content; (g) misrepresent the output of the Service to any third party, government agency, or in any certification, as a formal or government-sanctioned determination; or (h) use the Service in violation of any applicable law or regulation, including export-control and sanctions laws. Violation of this Section is a material breach of these Terms.

12. Disclaimer of Warranties

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, BLECHER LLC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, BLECHER LLC MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THE COMPLIANCE DETERMINATIONS, VERDICTS, EVIDENCE CHAINS, OR CERTIFICATES PRODUCED BY THE SERVICE ARE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, CURRENT, OR CORRECT; NO WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE WILL IDENTIFY, FLAG, OR CATCH EVERY NON-COMPLIANT, RESTRICTED, LISTED, OR COUNTERFEIT COMPONENT; AND NO WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR SECURE. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT COMPLIANCE SCREENING IS INHERENTLY PROBABILISTIC AND DEPENDS ON THE ACCURACY AND COMPLETENESS OF INPUT DATA AND THIRD-PARTY SOURCES.

13. Specific Compliance Disclaimer

Forge is a screening and verification tool. It is not a substitute for formal export classification, commodity jurisdiction determination, physical inspection, or destructive testing of electronic components. Forge screens against regulatory frameworks based on manufacturer identity, corporate structure, country of origin, and component category. Definitive ITAR classification, ECCN assignment, and counterfeit authentication require additional analysis beyond what BOM-level screening provides. The user is solely responsible for all procurement, export, and compliance decisions.

You further acknowledge that regulatory lists, corporate ownership structures, and control classifications change over time; that a "clear" or "no-match" result reflects only the data and regimes available to the Service at the time of screening; and that reliance on any Forge output without independent professional verification is undertaken entirely at your own risk.

14. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Blecher LLC and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, contractors, and agents from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, liabilities, damages, losses, penalties, fines, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to: (a) your use of the Service; (b) any procurement, sourcing, export, re-export, transfer, or compliance decision you make, whether or not informed by Service output; (c) your User Content, including any BOM or custom regime you upload; (d) your violation of these Terms, the Acceptable Use Policy, or any applicable law or regulation, including export-control and sanctions laws; or (e) your infringement or misappropriation of any third-party right. Blecher LLC reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you agree to cooperate with our defense.

15. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL BLECHER LLC OR ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, OR REGULATORY PENALTIES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT BLECHER LLC HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

IN NO EVENT WILL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF BLECHER LLC ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS EXCEED THE TOTAL FEES ACTUALLY PAID BY YOU TO BLECHER LLC FOR THE SERVICE DURING THE THREE (3) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE LIABILITY. THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS APPLY EVEN IF ANY REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN OF THESE EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS; IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS, LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

16. Dispute Resolution

In the event of any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service, Blecher LLC reserves the sole and exclusive right to elect the forum for resolution. At our discretion, we may require that the dispute be resolved by either (a) final and binding arbitration administered by the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) under its Arbitration Rules, with the seat of arbitration in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the language of the proceedings in English, and a single arbitrator, or (b) litigation in the DIFC Courts.

You irrevocably submit to the forum elected by Blecher LLC under this Section and waive any objection to venue or forum non conveniens with respect to that forum.

17. Class Action Waiver

Any dispute, claim, or controversy between you and Blecher LLC will be resolved only on an individual basis, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. You and Blecher LLC each waive any right to participate in a class action, class arbitration, or representative action. No arbitrator or court may consolidate more than one person's claims or otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding without the express written consent of both parties. If this class action waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim shall be severed and adjudicated in the DIFC Courts, while the remainder of the dispute proceeds as provided in Section 16.

18. Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), notwithstanding any conflict of law provisions.

19. Assignment

You may not assign, delegate, or transfer these Terms or any of your rights or obligations under them, in whole or in part, by operation of law or otherwise, without the prior written consent of Blecher LLC, and any attempted assignment in violation of this Section is void. Blecher LLC may freely assign or transfer these Terms, in whole or in part, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or by operation of law. These Terms bind and inure to the benefit of the parties and their permitted successors and assigns.

20. Changes to Terms

We may modify these Terms from time to time. For material changes, we will provide at least thirty (30) days' notice before the changes take effect, by email to the address associated with your account or by prominent notice within the Service. Non-material changes may take effect upon posting. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date of any change constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms. If you do not agree to a change, you must stop using the Service and may cancel your subscription in accordance with Section 10 before the change takes effect.

By using Forge, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to these Terms of Service. For questions regarding these Terms, contact Blecher LLC.