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BRIGHTAI CORPORATION — OPPORTUNITY EXPLORER TERMS OF SERVICE

Effective Date: May 13, 2026

Last Updated: May 13, 2026

1. ACCEPTANCE, SCOPE, AND AGREEMENT HIERARCHY

By accessing or using the BrightAI Opportunity Explorer at stateful.world (the "Service"), you ("User" or "you") agree to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you do not agree to these Terms, do not access or use the Service.

1.1 Relationship to Signed Agreements. Your access to the Service requires a non-disclosure agreement or other agreement containing confidentiality obligations between BrightAI Corporation ("BrightAI," "we," "us," or "our") and the organization on whose behalf you act ("Customer") (each, a "Signed Agreement"). These Terms govern your individual use of the Service. They do not replace, modify, or expand the rights or obligations set forth in any Signed Agreement. If any provision of these Terms conflicts with a Signed Agreement, the Signed Agreement controls to the extent of the conflict.

1.2 Privacy. BrightAI and Customer shall comply with applicable data protection laws and regulations. The Data Protection Agreement ("DPA"), available at https://trust.bright.ai/, is incorporated into these Terms by reference. By accepting these Terms on behalf of Customer, you bind Customer to the DPA.

2. ELIGIBILITY AND ACCOUNTS

The Service is a business tool. There is no public registration. You may only create or use an account if you have received an admin-issued invitation from BrightAI. Invitations are issued only after a non-disclosure agreement ("NDA") or other Signed Agreement containing confidentiality obligations has been executed between BrightAI and Customer.

By accepting your invitation and accessing the Service, you acknowledge and agree that:

Each account is for a single named individual. You must not share your credentials or permit any other person to access the Service through your account. If your authorization from Customer is revoked or Customer's agreement with BrightAI terminates or expires, your right to use the Service immediately ceases.

3. ACCEPTABLE USE

You agree to use the Service only for lawful business purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You must not:

4. CUSTOMER CONTENT

4.1 Ownership. You retain all rights, title, and interest in data you and other Users in your organization create or submit through the Service, including portfolios, company records, ROI sessions, and associated configurations ("Customer Content"). Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of Customer Content to BrightAI.

4.2 Service License. By submitting Customer Content, you grant BrightAI a limited, non-exclusive, license to host, store, process, display, and transmit that Customer Content solely to provide the Service to you and the Users with whom you share it. BrightAI may sublicense these rights to sub-processors identified in the DPA solely to the extent necessary to provide the Service. This license terminates upon deletion of the Customer Content or termination of your account, subject to Section 12 and BrightAI's retained ownership of Aggregated Insights under Section 4.4.

4.3 No Training. BrightAI does not use Customer Content to train, fine-tune, or improve any artificial intelligence or machine learning model. This restriction applies to BrightAI and to each Sub-Processor (as defined in the DPA). For the avoidance of doubt, the derivation of Aggregated Insights under Section 4.4 does not constitute training, fine-tuning, or improvement of an AI or ML model.

4.4 Aggregated Insights. BrightAI may derive anonymized, aggregated benchmarks, statistics, and industry insights from Customer Content and Uploaded Documents ("Aggregated Insights"). Aggregated Insights are statistical or summary-level data that have been combined across multiple customers or sources and from which neither the contributing customer, the source document, nor any individual can be identified or reasonably inferred. BrightAI owns all Aggregated Insights. BrightAI may use Aggregated Insights to improve the Service, develop industry benchmarks, and enhance the accuracy of analyses provided to all customers.

4.5 Aggregated Insights - Safeguards. BrightAI will not publish, display, or make available any Aggregated Insight that is attributable to a specific customer, portfolio, company, document, or individual. Customer Content, Uploaded Documents, and Derived Outputs in their original or non-aggregated form are never shared with or made accessible to other customers and remain subject to the confidentiality obligations in Section 7. Aggregated Insights survive deletion of the underlying Customer Content and termination of your account because, by definition, they cannot be traced to their source.

5. DOCUMENT UPLOADS AND AI PROCESSING

5.1 Document Uploads. The Service allows you to upload documents associated with portfolio companies, including confidential information memoranda, technical due-diligence reports, board presentations, energy and capital expenditure overviews, and similar materials ("Uploaded Documents") for the purpose of AI-driven analysis and enrichment.

5.2 Authority to Upload. You represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights and authority to upload each Uploaded Document to the Service, including any consents or approvals required under applicable confidentiality, non-disclosure, or data protection agreements. You are solely responsible for ensuring that each upload is permitted under the terms governing the material.

5.3 Processing. Uploaded Documents are stored in encrypted cloud infrastructure, processed by BrightAI's backend to extract content, and transmitted to third-party AI service providers identified in the DPA for AI-driven analysis.

5.4 No Training — Uploaded Documents. The no-training commitment in Section 4.3 applies with equal force to Uploaded Documents. Neither BrightAI nor any sub-processor uses the content of Uploaded Documents to train, fine-tune, or improve any AI or ML model. BrightAI may derive Aggregated Insights from Uploaded Documents in accordance with Sections 4.4 and 4.5.

5.5 Deletion of Uploaded Documents. You may delete Uploaded Documents through the Service at any time — per-document, per-portfolio company, or per-portfolio. Per-document deletion removes the file and its extracted content; per-company and per-portfolio deletion cascade-deletes all associated documents, AI outputs, proposals, and audit history. BrightAI may make available a per-portfolio retention cap that automatically deletes Uploaded Documents and their Derived Outputs after a Customer-selected period. Where enabled, automatic deletion follows the same cascade behavior as user-initiated deletion.

6. AI-POWERED FEATURES AND OUTPUTS

6.1 AI Features. The Service uses artificial intelligence, including large language models, to enrich company profiles, generate business overviews, identify executive teams, assess observability challenges, produce fit scores, estimate return on investment, generate project plans, and answer questions about portfolio companies. The outputs of these features ("Derived Outputs") are generated by artificial intelligence and are not reviewed by BrightAI personnel before display unless otherwise stated in these Terms. Where Derived Outputs propose changes to a portfolio company's profile, they are staged for your review and do not take effect until you accept them.

6.2 Confidentiality of Derived Outputs. Derived Outputs are derived from Customer Content and Uploaded Documents. BrightAI treats Derived Outputs as confidential information to the same extent as the underlying Customer Content and Uploaded Documents from which they originate.

6.3 No Professional Advice. Derived Outputs are provided for informational purposes only. They do not constitute and must not be construed as investment advice, financial advice, valuation opinions, legal advice, or any other form of professional advice. BrightAI is not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, or financial institution.

6.4 No Guarantee of Accuracy. AI-generated Derived Outputs are probabilistic in nature. They may contain errors, omissions, hallucinations, or inaccuracies, and may not reflect current, complete, or correct information. BrightAI does not warrant the accuracy, completeness, reliability, timeliness, or fitness for any particular purpose of any Derived Output.

6.5 User Responsibility. You are solely responsible for evaluating, verifying, and independently validating all Derived Outputs before relying on them in connection with any business decision, including any investment, acquisition, divestiture, or portfolio management decision. Derived Outputs should be treated as a starting point for your own independent analysis, not as a substitute for professional due diligence, financial modeling, or expert advice.

6.6 Limitation on AI-Related Liability. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, BrightAI shall not be liable for any loss, damage, cost, or expense arising from your reliance on any Derived Output, including any decision to invest, acquire, divest, fund, or take any other business action based in whole or in part on information generated by the Service.

7. CONFIDENTIALITY AND NDA INTERPLAY

7.1 BrightAI's Confidentiality Obligations. BrightAI will treat all Customer Content, Uploaded Documents, and Derived Outputs as confidential information of the Customer and will not disclose them to any third party except: (a) to sub-processors identified in the DPA, solely for the purposes described therein; (b) to Users with whom you have shared access through the Service; and (c) as required by applicable law, regulation, or legal process, in which case BrightAI will provide Customer with prompt notice to the extent legally permitted. For the avoidance of doubt, Aggregated Insights (as defined in Section 4.4) are not confidential information of any Customer because they are anonymized, aggregated, and not attributable to any specific customer, document, or individual.

7.2 NDA Protections Are Preserved. Where Uploaded Documents or other Customer Content constitute "Confidential Information" (or equivalent defined term) under a Signed Agreement, the protections of that Signed Agreement apply in full. These Terms do not diminish, override, or expand BrightAI's rights to access, use, or disclose such information beyond what the applicable Signed Agreement permits. To the extent a Signed Agreement imposes more restrictive obligations on BrightAI than these Terms, BrightAI will comply with the more restrictive obligation.

7.3 Fallback Protection. Access to the Service requires a signed NDA or equivalent confidentiality agreement (see Section 2). In the event that a Signed Agreement lapses, expires, or is terminated while a User retains access to the Service, BrightAI will continue to protect Customer Content, Uploaded Documents, and Derived Outputs using the same standard of care it applies to its own confidential information of like kind, but in no event less than reasonable care, for the longer of (a) three (3) years from the date the information is last accessed through the Service, or (b) the survival period specified in the applicable Signed Agreement, measured from the date of last disclosure through the Service. This Section 7.3 does not apply to information that: (a) is or becomes publicly available through no fault of BrightAI; (b) was known to BrightAI prior to disclosure through the Service without restriction; (c) is independently developed by BrightAI without use of or reference to the information; or (d) is required to be disclosed by applicable law.

8. SERVICE AVAILABILITY

BrightAI provides the Service on an "as available" basis. We target high availability but do not guarantee uninterrupted access. We may add, change, or remove features. If a change materially reduces functionality you actively use, we will notify the email address on your account at least fourteen (14) days before the change takes effect.

9. AUTHENTICATION AND SECURITY

Two-factor authentication is required for every account. Supported second factors include TOTP authenticator apps and SMS verification codes. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password, MFA secrets, recovery codes, and any phone number associated with your account. You must notify BrightAI immediately at security@bright.ai if you suspect your account has been compromised. BrightAI maintains a full audit log of authentication events.

10. COMMUNICATIONS

BrightAI sends transactional email tied to specific account actions (email verification, password reset, MFA changes, invitations and shares you initiate, account security alerts) via AWS SES from noreply@stateful.world. If you have added and verified a phone number, BrightAI sends transactional SMS as described at stateful.world/sms-opt-in. BrightAI does not send marketing email or SMS through the Service.

11. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

The Service, including all software, AI models, algorithms, user interfaces, designs, documentation, and related technology, is owned by BrightAI or its licensors and is protected by applicable intellectual property laws. These Terms do not grant you any ownership interest in the Service, any BrightAI technology, or any AI model. Except for the limited right to access and use the Service as authorized by these Terms and any applicable Signed Agreement, no rights or licenses are granted to you by implication, estoppel, or otherwise.

12. TERMINATION AND DATA DELETION

12.1 By You. You may delete your account at any time through the account settings in the Service or by contacting legal@bright.ai.

12.2 By BrightAI. BrightAI may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, that are subject to a security incident, or that have been inactive for more than twenty-four (24) months, upon reasonable notice where circumstances permit.

12.3 Effect of Termination. Upon termination for any reason, BrightAI will delete your account, Customer Content, Uploaded Documents, and Derived Outputs within thirty (30) days. Aggregated Insights (Section 4.4) are not subject to deletion because they are anonymized, aggregated, and not attributable to any specific customer. The database enforces cascade deletion: removing a portfolio or portfolio company removes all associated documents, AI-generated outputs, proposals, audit history, and collaboration records in a single transaction.

12.4 Legal Hold. Notwithstanding Section 12.3, BrightAI may preserve Customer Content, Uploaded Documents, or Derived Outputs beyond the stated deletion window where required by a litigation hold, regulatory request, subpoena, or fraud or abuse investigation. BrightAI will notify Customer of such preservation to the extent legally permitted.

12.5 Survival. Sections 3, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.4, 6.3–6.6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 survive termination.

13. DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

13.1 Disclaimer of Warranties. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available." BrightAI disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranties arising from course of dealing or usage of trade. BrightAI does not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, or that defects will be corrected.

13.2 Exclusion of Consequential Damages. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, BrightAI shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits, revenues, data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or relating to your use of the Service, regardless of the theory of liability.

13.3 Aggregate Liability Cap. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, BrightAI's total aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service shall not exceed the greater of (a) the amounts paid by or on behalf of Customer to BrightAI for use of the Service during the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred U.S. dollars (US $100).

13.4 Signed Agreement Governs. Where a Signed Agreement between BrightAI and Customer contains warranty, service level, or limitation of liability provisions applicable to the Service, those provisions apply to Customer (and to Users acting on Customer's behalf) in lieu of Sections 13.1–13.3 to the extent they provide broader protection.

14. INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless BrightAI, its officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from: (a) your use of the Service in violation of these Terms; (b) your upload of any document or content that you did not have the right to submit; or (c) your violation of any applicable law or regulation.

15. GOVERNING LAW AND DISPUTES

These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms shall be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. EACH PARTY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL IN ANY ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS.

16. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Entire Agreement. These Terms, together with any applicable Signed Agreement, constitute the entire agreement between you and BrightAI regarding your use of the Service.

Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full force and effect.

Modifications. BrightAI may update these Terms from time to time. If we make a material change, we will notify the email address on your account at least thirty (30) days before the change takes effect. Continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

No Waiver. BrightAI's failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of that provision or the right to enforce it later.

Force Majeure. BrightAI shall not be liable for any failure or delay in performing its obligations under these Terms to the extent caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including natural disasters, acts of government, internet or telecommunications failures, third-party hosting provider outages, cyberattacks, or labor disputes.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your account without BrightAI's prior written consent. BrightAI may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of substantially all of its assets.

17. CONTACT

If you have questions about these Terms, contact us at:

BrightAI Corporation 1001 Page Mill Rd, Bldg 3 Palo Alto, CA 94304 United States

Legal: legal@bright.ai Privacy: privacy@bright.ai Security: security@bright.ai

BrightAI Corporation — Opportunity Explorer Terms of Service — v1.1 — May 13, 2026