# MANYMOATS UNILATERAL NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT **INVENTOR & PROPRIETARY SUBSTRATE PROTECTION AGREEMENT (ONE-WAY)** This Unilateral Non-Disclosure and Proprietary Information Agreement (the **"Agreement"**) is entered into and made effective as of the date of signature below (the **"Effective Date"**), by and between: **MANYMOATS, INC.** (together with its founder, sole inventor, and lawful affiliates, **"ManyMoats"** or the **"Discloser"**), having a principal executive office located in Los Angeles County, California; and **THE RECIPIENT** identified on the signature page hereto (**"Recipient"** or **"Evaluator"**), whether an investor, venture capital representative, prospective partner, strategic evaluator, consultant, or technical advisor. --- ### RECITALS **WHEREAS**, ManyMoats and its sole inventor Brennan William DeCrow have conceived, authored, engineered, and reduced to practice a sovereign, high-performance computing, generative user interface, and autonomous multi-agent software substrate comprising twenty (20) interconnected software properties, ten (10) specialized computational engines, and twelve (12) proprietary technological inventions; **WHEREAS**, Discloser's proprietary technologies, algorithms, and computational architectures are the subject of active patent applications filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), including but not limited to U.S. Provisional Patent Applications Serial Nos. 64/159,586; 64/161,921; 64/161,944; 64/161,949; and 64/162,043; and **WHEREAS**, Discloser wishes to disclose certain highly confidential, proprietary, and trade secret information to Recipient solely for the purpose of enabling Recipient to evaluate a prospective investment, financing, strategic partnership, licensing transaction, or advisory collaboration with ManyMoats (the **"Purpose"**), and Recipient desires to receive such information subject to the strict confidentiality and protective terms set forth herein. **NOW, THEREFORE**, in consideration of the mutual covenants contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Recipient agrees as follows: --- ### 1. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION & PROPRIETARY SUBSTRATE **1.1 Definition.** "Confidential Information" means any and all non-public, proprietary, confidential, technical, financial, or business information, in whatever form or medium, disclosed or made available by or on behalf of Discloser to Recipient, whether orally, in writing, electronically, by visual inspection of code, screens, or facilities, or by delivery of data, software, or prototypes. **1.2 Specific ManyMoats Inventions and Subsystems.** Recipient expressly acknowledges that Confidential Information of Discloser includes, without limitation, the following proprietary subsystems, architectures, engines, and inventions: - (a) **Tangible™ Physics Engine:** The deterministic 2,635 Hz WebGPU XPBD (Extended Position-Based Dynamics) Neo-Hookean tetrahedral elastic continuum solver, strain-energy tensors, constraint projection shaders, and zero-heap allocation memory layout; - (b) **Visual Cadence™ Engine:** The Kuramoto coupled non-linear oscillator network, phase-locked audio transient synchronization algorithms, sub-frame cut boundary predictors, and audio-visual harmonic timeline synthesis; - (c) **LeashLaw™ Gatekeeper:** The mathematical capability envelopes, mutation bounding operators, invariant verification state machines, and real-time autonomous agent constraint lattices; - (d) **Evoke™ Projection Pipeline:** The zero-deserialization UI projection engine streaming layout-free graphical elements from SharedArrayBuffer memory slabs directly into GPU canvas memory; - (e) **SansSlop™ Aesthetics Engine:** The multi-modal thermodynamic free-energy aesthetic filtration system, spectral decay detectors, chromatic entropy classifiers, and heuristic visual evaluation pipelines; - (f) **Limitless™ Memory Fabric:** The cross-silicon unified physical memory architecture, virtual NUMA pooling controllers, and 4.14× memory compaction algorithms; - (g) **Hyphae™ Sovereign Mesh:** The content-addressed cryptographic mesh protocol, peer-to-peer work-stealing compute grid, and decentralized task distribution network; - (h) **KineticTouch™ Dynamic Cursor:** The viscoelastic spatial field dynamics coupling input pointer kinematics to physical constraint equations; - (i) **LivingLogo™ Procedural Glyphs:** The cryptographically-seeded vector glyph synthesis engines, parametric spline deformers, and temporal event authenticity stamp generators; - (j) **MoatID™ Biometric Layer:** The ambient-exhaustion biometric authentication protocol combining micro-gestural kinematics and cryptographic hardware enclave verification; - (k) **ATESO Substrate Architectures:** The Atomic Execution Substrate Orchestrations (ATESO-1 and ATESO-2), runtime hypervisors, and inter-room cross-spine communication buses (`spine-bus.mjs`); and - (l) **USPTO Patent Pending Disclosures:** All unreleased patent draft specifications, provisional patent claims, priority filings, experimental test benches, and benchmark metrics associated with U.S. Patent Application Nos. 64/159,586; 64/161,921; 64/161,944; 64/161,949; and 64/162,043. --- ### 2. EXCLUSIONS FROM CONFIDENTIALITY Confidential Information shall not include information that Recipient can conclusively establish through competent contemporaneous written evidence: - (a) Was already known to Recipient without restriction prior to disclosure by Discloser; - (b) Is or becomes publicly known through no act, omission, or breach of this Agreement by Recipient or its Representatives; - (c) Is independently developed by Recipient without access to, reference to, or reliance upon Discloser's Confidential Information; or - (d) Is lawfully received by Recipient from an independent third party without restriction and without breach of any confidentiality obligation. --- ### 3. RECIPIENT'S OBLIGATIONS & DUTY OF CARE **3.1 Strict Confidentiality.** Recipient shall hold Discloser's Confidential Information in the strictest confidence and shall take all necessary precautions to prevent any unauthorized disclosure, dissemination, copying, or use. Recipient shall apply at least the highest commercial standard of care, and in no event less than a reasonable standard of care, to preserve the secrecy of Discloser's Confidential Information. **3.2 Restricted Purpose.** Recipient shall use Discloser's Confidential Information solely and exclusively to evaluate the Purpose. Recipient shall not use Confidential Information for any commercial, developmental, operational, or competitive purpose, nor for the benefit of any third party. **3.3 Need-to-Know Access.** Recipient shall limit access to Discloser's Confidential Information strictly to those of its partners, officers, employees, legal counsel, and financial advisors (**"Representatives"**) who have a clear and demonstrable need to know such information for the Purpose, who have been apprised of the confidential and proprietary nature of the information, and who are bound by written confidentiality agreements or legal ethical obligations at least as restrictive as this Agreement. Recipient shall remain fully and strictly liable for any breach of this Agreement by its Representatives. --- ### 4. COVENANTS AGAINST REVERSE ENGINEERING, EXTRACTION & CIRCUMVENTION **4.1 Reverse Engineering Prohibited.** Recipient covenants and agrees that under no circumstances shall Recipient, directly or indirectly: - (a) Decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, decrypt, de-obfuscate, analyze instruction streams, or attempt to derive the source code, underlying algorithms, mathematical equations, or shader pipelines of Discloser's software, binaries, or web assemblies; - (b) Harvest, extract, probe, scrape, or distill model weights, prompt chains, systemic rules, architectural schemas, or latent embeddings disclosed by Discloser to train, evaluate, fine-tune, or benchmark any machine learning model or competing software system; - (c) Alter, obscure, or remove any copyright, trademark, patent pending marking, or proprietary rights notices appearing on or within any materials provided by Discloser. **4.2 Non-Circumvention.** Recipient covenants that it shall not use Discloser's Confidential Information, patent disclosures, or architecture to design, develop, sponsor, finance, or solicit any competing product or service that replicates the core functional capabilities of ManyMoats' proprietary subsystems. Recipient shall not file, prosecute, or participate in the filing of any patent application claiming priority to or reading upon Discloser's Confidential Information. --- ### 5. OWNERSHIP & NO LICENSE All Confidential Information disclosed by Discloser remains the sole, absolute, and exclusive property of ManyMoats and Brennan William DeCrow. Neither the execution of this Agreement nor the disclosure of Confidential Information shall be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license, right, title, or interest under any patent, patent application, copyright, trademark, trade secret, or other intellectual property right of Discloser. --- ### 6. COMPELLED DISCLOSURE In the event Recipient is compelled by applicable law, regulation, or valid court order to disclose any Confidential Information, Recipient shall provide Discloser with prompt written notice (within 48 hours) prior to making any disclosure, to afford Discloser the opportunity to seek a protective order or other appropriate relief. If such protective order is not obtained, Recipient shall disclose only that portion of Confidential Information legally required and shall make reasonable efforts to obtain reliable assurances of confidential treatment. --- ### 7. RETURN AND DESTRUCTION Upon written request by Discloser or upon conclusion of discussions concerning the Purpose, Recipient shall promptly (and in any event within seven (7) business days): - (a) Return or, at Discloser's option, permanently and securely destroy all physical and electronic documents, software, notes, and materials containing or derived from Discloser's Confidential Information; and - (b) Deliver a written certification signed by an authorized officer of Recipient attesting to such complete return or destruction. --- ### 8. TERM AND SURVIVAL **8.1 Term.** This Agreement shall govern all disclosures made between the Parties for a period of two (2) years from the Effective Date. **8.2 Indefinite & Extended Survival.** Recipient's obligations under this Agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement for five (5) years from the date of disclosure; provided, however, that: - (a) All **Trade Secrets** of Discloser shall remain protected indefinitely for as long as they qualify as trade secrets under applicable law; and - (b) All **Patent Pending Inventions**, algorithms, and proprietary architectures of ManyMoats shall remain protected perpetually or until publicly disclosed by Discloser without breach of this Agreement. --- ### 9. INJUNCTIVE RELIEF & REMEDIES Recipient expressly agrees that any breach or threatened breach of this Agreement will cause immediate, irreparable, and irreparable harm to Discloser for which monetary damages alone would be completely inadequate. Discloser shall be entitled to seek and obtain immediate ex parte injunctive relief, specific performance, and other equitable remedies from any court of competent jurisdiction to restrain any actual or threatened violation, without being required to post bond or prove monetary damage, in addition to any other remedies available at law or in equity. --- ### 10. DEFEND TRADE SECRETS ACT (DTSA) NOTICE Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1833(b), an individual shall not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that: (A) is made in confidence to a federal, state, or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney, solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law; or (B) is made in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal. --- ### 11. MISCELLANEOUS **11.1 Governing Law and Venue.** This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any legal action or proceeding arising under this Agreement shall be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California. **11.2 Entire Agreement.** This Agreement constitutes the entire understanding between the Parties concerning the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior representations, discussions, and agreements. No modification shall be effective unless in writing and signed by both Parties. **11.3 Severability.** If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent permissible, and the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect. **11.4 Electronic Signatures & FileFriend Protocol.** The Parties expressly consent and agree that this Agreement may be executed by electronic signature, including through FileFriend (`deploy/filefriend/sign.html`) digital signature capture and cryptographic handoff envelopes, which shall have the same legal force, validity, and effect as a handwritten signature under the federal E-SIGN Act (15 U.S.C. § 7001 et seq.) and the California Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (Cal. Civ. Code § 1633.1 et seq.). --- ### SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS **IN WITNESS WHEREOF**, the Recipient has duly executed this Unilateral Non-Disclosure and Proprietary Information Agreement as of the Effective Date. #### ACKNOWLEDGED & DISCLOSED BY: MANYMOATS, INC. **By:** _____________________________________________ **Name:** Brennan William DeCrow **Title:** Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Sole Inventor **Date:** ________________________ **FileFriend Envelope Hash:** `sha256:manymoats-unilateral-nda-2026` #### RECIPIENT / EVALUATOR: **Company / Fund / Individual Name:** _____________________________________________ **By (Signature):** _____________________________________________ **Printed Name:** _____________________________________________ **Title / Role:** _____________________________________________ **Date:** ________________________ **Email Address:** _____________________________________________ **Organization / Entity:** _____________________________________________ **Physical Address:** _____________________________________________