Version 0.43 · September 13, 2026
This Agreement governs the use of IRIS software and its licensing service. It is between Saccadic LLC (“Saccadic”) and each individual or organization that accepts it.
It uses two roles. A “User” is an individual who operates IRIS. The “Customer” is the individual or organization that holds the IRIS account and purchases Credits. One individual can be both.
A User accepts this Agreement for their own use of IRIS by selecting “I agree,” and is personally bound by the rules for Users in Sections 2, 6, and 7. That acceptance does not, by itself, make the User responsible for a Customer’s payments or account obligations, or for anyone else’s use of IRIS.
An individual becomes a Customer by accepting this Agreement as an individual customer. An organization becomes a Customer only when a person authorized to act for it accepts this Agreement on its behalf and identifies the organization by its legal name, at signup or later. A company name, work email address, payment method, or job title does not, by itself, accept this Agreement for an organization.
Saccadic grants each Customer a nonexclusive, nontransferable license to install and use IRIS, through the Users it authorizes, during this Agreement for lawful business, research, development, consulting, and personal purposes. An individual Customer is also its own User. A User who has accepted this Agreement may also install and use IRIS with Credits granted to that User, before any Customer is identified.
An organizational Customer may authorize its employees and contractors to use IRIS on its behalf. The Customer must make sure each User it authorizes knows and follows the rules for Users in this Agreement, and the Customer is responsible to Saccadic for their compliance. Saccadic may require any User to accept this Agreement personally before further licensed Runs.
IRIS runs alongside the model on the computing resources used for training or fine-tuning. Permitted use includes paid consulting and research involving a client’s model and computing resources.
Users may make copies reasonably needed for permitted use, keeping proprietary notices intact.
Redistribution, resale, sublicensing, or transfer of IRIS requires Saccadic’s written permission.
Everyone who accepts this Agreement must provide accurate registration information. Users must keep their account credentials and Run Keys confidential.
The Customer is responsible for activity under its account and may share its Run Key only with Users it authorizes who are subject to appropriate confidentiality and use obligations. Users and Customers must report a compromised Run Key promptly to [email protected].
Users may run IRIS on shared computing systems, distributed infrastructure, and automated job orchestration, with each Run licensed and metered under the account whose Credits it uses.
A “Run” is one execution of a training or fine-tuning job observed by IRIS.
Each Run consumes Credits according to the published rate schedule and per-Run minimum. Academic and commercial accounts use the same schedule. The rate depends only on the model’s total parameter count. The count covers the whole model, including frozen parameters and portions outside IRIS’s observation. For distributed runs, it includes the model’s parameters across all participating processes, shards, and devices. A change in parameter count changes the applicable price according to the schedule.
Saccadic will maintain or reduce the published numeric Credit rate for each existing pricing tier. Changes to tier boundaries, minimum charges, or other rules that increase the Customer’s charges require notice to and acceptance by the Customer before applying to future Runs. Pricing above the published range is agreed before use.
Purchased Credits are purchased by and held for the Customer, under the terms presented at checkout, including the quantity, purchase price, taxes, and payment terms. Purchasing Credits requires that a Customer has been identified and has accepted the Customer obligations in this Agreement.
Purchased Credits expire twelve months after purchase, with expiry disclosed before payment and applied to the extent permitted by law. Applicable statutory refund and value-preservation rights apply. Other purchases are final.
Saccadic may grant Credits to a User or Customer for use through their account, subject to the grant terms. A User may receive and consume granted Credits without choosing a Customer. If a Customer is selected later, existing grants continue under their original grant terms, and usage records and acceptance history are preserved.
Credits are consumed earliest-expiry-first and oldest-first when expiry dates match.
If a payment fails or is reversed, Saccadic may remove the corresponding unused Credits after notice. The Customer remains responsible for payment for Credits already consumed.
Each Run is charged once, regardless of its duration.
At startup, IRIS reserves the Run’s price against the available Credits of the account the Run uses. The charge occurs at the earlier of:
• The first diagnostic frame recorded after five minutes of training.
• A clean end to the Run after at least one diagnostic frame has been recorded.
A Run that records zero diagnostic frames releases its reservation without a charge.
Resuming an interrupted Run along the same continuing line of training carries the existing charge. Each additional branch is a separate Run. A resumed job with a different total parameter count is charged as a new Run at the applicable price.
Continuing a Run requires its saved IRIS licensing records. Restarting after those records are lost or corrupted is a new Run. Saccadic may provide replacement Credits for accidental loss at its discretion.
Dry-run mode consumes zero Credits. Activating it after a charge leaves that charge in place.
Saccadic claims no rights in the models, training data, code, results, or IRIS output files of Customers and Users.
Users may use IRIS’s documented interfaces to create their own signals, formulas, adapters, integrations, visualizations, and analyses. Saccadic claims no rights in those creations.
Customers and Users may use, share, and publish their work and results at their discretion, subject to the protection of Proprietary Methods in Section 6. Exported data and figures may use their own format and visual style.
Saccadic requests the following citation when IRIS contributes to published work: Saccadic, IRIS, the IRIS version used, https://www.saccadic.ai
Saccadic retains ownership of IRIS, its licensing service, and its proprietary technology.
“Proprietary Methods” means the nonpublic implementation details of IRIS’s diagnostic and analytical methods, including nonpublic combinations of otherwise public elements.
Users and Customers must protect Proprietary Methods with reasonable care, keep them confidential, and limit access to authorized people bound by equivalent obligations.
Users and Customers must not:
• Decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to recover IRIS’s nonpublic code or implementation.
• Analyze outputs or design experiments primarily to reconstruct the Proprietary Methods.
• Use Proprietary Methods to create or help create a reproduction of Saccadic’s implementation.
• Use IRIS, or measurements, analyses, or other information derived from IRIS, to design, develop, or train a product or service that measures or analyzes machine-learning training in competition with IRIS.
• Modify IRIS itself or bypass its technical protections.
• Remove proprietary notices or alter licensing provenance in IRIS output files.
Users and Customers remain free to conduct independent research and development and to create extensions through documented interfaces. Public information and information lawfully obtained or independently developed remain available for their use.
Rights that applicable law makes mandatory remain available, including qualifying observation, testing, and interoperability activities. Requests for additional interfaces or information may be sent to [email protected].
Misuse or disclosure of the Proprietary Methods would cause Saccadic harm that money damages cannot adequately repair. Saccadic may therefore seek a court order to stop it, in addition to any other remedy.
Users and Customers must use Saccadic’s licensing service and report the whole model’s parameter count accurately.
They must not knowingly bypass licensing checks, falsify licensing records, substitute a licensing server, use unauthorized credentials, or manipulate model reporting or Run execution to evade charges.
Ordinary network proxies, firewalls, security gateways, and job orchestration are permitted.
Users and Customers must notify Saccadic promptly if they discover licensing misuse under a Customer’s account.
To license and meter Runs, the IRIS client sends the licensing service: the Run Key; a random session identifier; the model’s total parameter count; the IRIS software version; an optional machine fingerprint; the time of the first recorded diagnostic frame; the number of diagnostic frames delivered and a cryptographic hash of the last recorded frame, never its content; and, when a Run resumes or ends before recording, its signed licensing receipt and lease or a cancellation notice. The licensing service also records the IP address used for agreement acceptances and account activity, and keeps standard access logs. IRIS never sends model names, run names, file or directory names, training data, model weights, source code, or diagnostic results.
Training data, model weights, source code, and scientific outputs remain on the systems where IRIS runs unless a User or Customer chooses to send them to Saccadic.
For material a User or Customer voluntarily submits, the submitter authorizes Saccadic to store, copy, and analyze it solely for the purpose of the submission. Saccadic will protect it as confidential and delete it on request.
Personal information is handled under the IRIS Privacy Notice, which forms part of this Agreement.
IRIS requires the licensing service to authorize Runs. During a startup outage, IRIS retries and begins recording diagnostics when authorization succeeds.
During an outage affecting an authorized Run, recording continues through the grace period applicable to that IRIS version. When that grace period expires, diagnostic recording stops; training continues and previously recorded outputs remain available.
If an outage of Saccadic’s licensing service stops a charged Run from recording, or causes Credits to be consumed without the Run recording, Saccadic will provide replacement Credits for that Run to the account whose Credits it used. This includes Runs charged before the outage began. To request replacement Credits, contact [email protected].
Saccadic provides the licensing service as available and may modify, suspend, or discontinue it. Service levels, support, and maintenance commitments may be agreed separately in writing.
This Agreement binds each User and each Customer from the time each accepts it. A User may end their acceptance by stopping use of IRIS and deleting their IRIS software copies. A Customer may end this Agreement by ending its Users’ use of IRIS, deleting its IRIS software copies, and closing its account. Purchased Credits remain subject to Section 3.
Saccadic may suspend or terminate a User’s or a Customer’s access immediately for intentional licensing circumvention, misuse or disclosure of Proprietary Methods, or other material violations. For other reasons, Saccadic will give reasonable notice.
When this Agreement ends for a User or a Customer, that User or Customer must stop using IRIS and delete its software copies, and may retain and use its outputs, extensions, and results. When it ends for an organizational Customer, licensed use by that Customer’s Users under its account also ends.
Ownership, confidentiality, restrictions on misuse of Proprietary Methods, liability provisions, and the Customer’s accrued payment obligations continue after termination.
IRIS is pre-release software under active development. Its interfaces and behavior may change.
IRIS is provided “as is” and “as available.” Customers and Users are responsible for validating its outputs and determining its suitability for their use.
IRIS reports measurements of a training run. It does not diagnose models or recommend actions. Interpreting its reports, and any decision based on them, is the responsibility of the Customer and its Users.
To the extent permitted by law, Saccadic disclaims express, implied, and statutory warranties, including accuracy, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and noninfringement.
To the extent permitted by law, Saccadic’s liability excludes indirect and consequential damages, including loss of data, research results, compute time, profits, or goodwill. Its total liability under this Agreement to a Customer and all of that Customer’s Users together, or to a User without a Customer, is limited to the greater of US$1,000 or the amount the Customer paid Saccadic for Credits during the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.
Mandatory statutory rights and liabilities remain applicable.
Users and Customers must comply with applicable laws, including export controls and sanctions.
Arizona law governs this Agreement, subject to mandatory applicable law. Disputes are subject to the state and federal courts in Maricopa County, Arizona. Either party may seek urgent protection of intellectual property or confidential information in another court with jurisdiction.
Assignment by a User or Customer requires Saccadic’s written consent. Saccadic may assign this Agreement in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
Saccadic retains each accepted version of this Agreement. Material changes require acceptance before further licensed Runs: by the Customer, and by its Users where Saccadic requires it. Each Run remains governed by the terms and pricing applicable when it occurred.
This Agreement, the IRIS Privacy Notice, and applicable purchase terms form the complete agreement on their subjects. A separately signed agreement controls the subjects it expressly covers and any changes it expressly makes to this Agreement.
If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in effect.
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