Terms of Engagement.

The Initial Operational Audit represents a point-in-time assessment of operational latency, software overhead, pipeline fragmentation, and architectural exposure within the client's current state. Deliverables produced under Phase I are advisory in nature and do not constitute a structural guarantee of future revenue, conversion velocity, or market performance.

Findings issued under the diagnostic engagement are valid as of the audit cutover date. Material changes to the client's operational stack subsequent to issuance may invalidate recommendations and warrant a supplemental review under separate statement of work.

Upon final deployment and satisfaction of the covenant fees, the client retains localized operational ownership of the physically deployed AI node infrastructure, including all locally-resident weights, configuration manifests, and operational data generated within the client's environment.

Proprietary algorithmic logic blueprints, reference architectures, evaluation harnesses, prompt-graph compositions, deployment scaffolding, and the underlying methodological framework remain at all times the intellectual capital of Wyatt Peterson Consulting and are licensed to the client on a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable basis for the operational lifetime of the deployed node.

Because systems are deployed locally inside client environments and operate under the client's perimeter controls, the client retains ultimate operational oversight over real-world outputs, consumer-facing interactions, regulated communications, and downstream business decisions informed by node outputs.

Aggregate liability of Wyatt Peterson Consulting arising out of or in connection with any engagement is limited, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, to the fees actually paid by the client under the specific statement of work giving rise to the claim during the twelve (12) month period immediately preceding the event. No party shall be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages.