Terms of Service.

What this document is.

These terms ("Terms") govern access to and use of the Veritas-Vault platform and any associated services ("Services") provided by Direct Consulting Solutions SA, a Swiss société anonyme domiciled in Geneva ("DCS", "we", "us"). The Terms constitute the engagement letter between DCS and the counterparty subscribing to or otherwise using the Services ("Client", "you").

For the purposes of these Terms:

Client

The institutional counterparty engaging the Services

Document

Any material submitted to the platform for precision analysis

Report

The analysis output delivered to the Client's authenticated dashboard

Engagement

The contractual relationship formed under these Terms

By appointment. Or by referral.

Engagement begins with a scoped conversation between the Client's nominated counsel and a DCS representative. Engagement is confirmed by a written subscription confirmation, executed framework agreement, or — for On-Demand engagements — by completion of the payment flow.

Pricing is set by published fee schedule for the Counsel, Chambers, and Bench tiers; by bespoke schedule for Custom engagements; and per-engagement for The Brief. All amounts are quoted in United States Dollars (USD), exclusive of any applicable VAT or analogous indirect tax.

The architectural undertaking.

DCS undertakes that Documents submitted by the Client shall be processed entirely in a serverless, in-memory layer. Documents are not written to persistent disk storage. They are not retained in backup, snapshot, or cold-storage tier. They are purged from active memory at the moment of Report delivery.

This undertaking is the substantive privacy and confidentiality commitment of the Engagement. It supplements — and structurally supports — the obligations of confidentiality set out below.

Mutual undertakings.

Each party shall hold in confidence all non-public information received from the other party in the course of the Engagement, and shall use such information solely for the purposes of performing its obligations under these Terms.

The confidentiality undertaking survives termination of the Engagement and binds:

• Information disclosed under the Engagement, in any form
• The contents of any Document and any Report
• The fact of the Engagement itself, where the Client requests
• Any framework profile, threshold, or precedent position declared by the Client

The standard of use.

The Client shall use the Services in a manner consistent with the institutional standard implied by the Engagement. In particular, the Client shall not:

• Submit Documents the Client is not lawfully entitled to submit
• Reverse-engineer, probe, or attempt to extract the underlying intelligence model
• Use the Services for any unlawful purpose under Swiss federal law or under the law of the Client's jurisdiction
• Resell or sublicense the Services without DCS's written consent
• Use the Services to develop a competing precision-analysis product

DCS reserves the right to suspend or terminate the Engagement for material breach of this clause, on written notice.

Considered limits.

Veritas-Vault is a institutional-grade analysis platform. It does not constitute legal advice and is not a substitute for counsel. Reports are decision-support output; the substantive judgement that follows remains with the Client and its qualified counsel.

Subject to applicable law and to the carve-outs below, DCS's aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with the Engagement is limited to the fees paid by the Client to DCS in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited under Swiss federal law, including liability for gross negligence, wilful misconduct, or fraud.

Swiss federal law. Geneva forum.

These Terms and the Engagement are governed by the substantive law of Switzerland, to the exclusion of its conflict-of-laws rules and to the exclusion of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

Any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Republic and Canton of Geneva, subject to the possibility of appeal to the Swiss Federal Tribunal.

How the engagement ends.

Subscription Engagements continue for the subscription period elected by the Client and renew on a like-for-like basis unless either party gives written notice of non-renewal at least thirty (30) days before the renewal date. On-Demand Engagements terminate on delivery of the Report for which the fee was paid.

Either party may terminate the Engagement for material breach by the other, on thirty (30) days' written notice, where the breach is not cured within that notice period. DCS may terminate immediately on notice for breaches of clause v. Acceptable use.

On termination, the Client shall pay all fees accrued up to the effective date of termination. The memory-only architecture means that no data-deletion step is required to give effect to termination: no Document persists beyond the analysis that produced its Report.