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Operator: Common Nexus LLC, an Oregon limited liability company (“Common Nexus,” “we,” “us,” “our”) Product: ShoDhen (the “Service”), delivered at shodhen.com and by email Last Updated: 2026-04-22 Effective Date: 2026-05-01

Plain-English Summary

ShoDhen is a paid daily intelligence briefing. You subscribe for $129 per month, charged in advance through Stripe. Your subscription renews automatically each month until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from your Account page. If you cancel within 7 days of your first successful charge, you get a full refund of that charge automatically. After 7 days, you can still cancel future charges, but past months are generally not refundable.

Our briefings are generated by AI from public third-party news sources. They are for information only. They are not legal, financial, medical, tax, or investment advice. Do not rely on them for any decision without independent verification.

The rest of this document is the binding legal agreement between you and Common Nexus LLC. Please read it.

1. Acceptance of Terms

By clicking “Subscribe,” “Start Subscription,” “I Agree,” or any similar affirmative button at checkout, or by accessing or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service (the “Terms”), our Privacy Policy, and our Refund Policy, each of which is incorporated here by reference.

You represent and warrant that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age and legally capable of entering into a binding contract under the laws of your jurisdiction. The Service is not directed to, and not intended for use by, anyone under 18. If we become aware that an account has been created by a minor, we will cancel the subscription, delete the account, and refund any charges made during the lifetime of that account.

If you are entering into these Terms on behalf of a company or other legal entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity. If you do not have that authority, or if you do not agree, you must not use the Service.

At checkout you will be shown the price, the billing interval, the automatic renewal terms, and a link to these Terms before the charge is authorized. Your click-through at that screen constitutes your affirmative consent to these Terms and to automatic renewal as described in Section 3. This process is designed to satisfy the California Automatic Renewal Law (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 17600-17606) and comparable state statutes.

2. The Service

ShoDhen delivers a daily business intelligence briefing to subscribers. Each briefing is generated by AI from publicly available third-party news and commentary sources and presented through three persona-based analytical lenses selected per-edition from a canonical allow-list (e.g., Chief Sales Officer, Strategy Consultant, Business Strategist, Founder Time Strategist, Privacy & Security Auditor). The specific three lenses appearing in any given briefing are selected based on the topical fit between today’s article corpus and each persona’s analytical framework. The lenses available for selection may change as the canonical allow-list is curated.

Briefings include an executive summary, prioritized action items, the three persona analyses, an optional buyer-signal section drawn from community/practitioner sources when available in the corpus, and a sources table.

Briefings are delivered by email to the address on file and are also available in your Account at shodhen.com. We may add, remove, or change lenses, sources, format, or delivery cadence from time to time. We will not reduce the core daily-delivery commitment for an active paying subscriber without notice under Section 15.

3. Subscription, Billing, and Auto-Renewal

This is a recurring subscription. Please read this section carefully.

3.1 Price and Billing Interval

The subscription price is $129.00 US dollars per month, charged in advance. There is no free trial. Payment is processed by Stripe, Inc. (“Stripe”). By subscribing you authorize Common Nexus, through Stripe, to charge your designated payment method for the initial subscription fee and for each renewal fee.

YOUR SUBSCRIPTION WILL AUTOMATICALLY RENEW EACH MONTH AT $129.00 PER MONTH UNTIL YOU CANCEL IT. Each renewal will be charged to the payment method on file on or about the monthly anniversary of your first successful charge. We will continue to charge you at the then-current price (subject to Section 3.6) until you cancel.

By clicking the subscribe button at checkout you affirmatively consent to this automatic renewal. The checkout screen presents the price, the billing interval (“monthly”), the auto-renewal disclosure, the cancellation mechanism, and a link to this Section 3 and to the Refund Policy, each displayed in a clear and conspicuous manner immediately adjacent to the purchase button.

3.3 Post-Purchase Acknowledgment

After each successful charge (including the initial charge and every renewal), we will send an email to the address on file that includes: (a) a description of the Service, (b) the amount charged, (c) the billing date, (d) the next scheduled renewal date, (e) a one-click cancellation link, and (f) a link to the Refund Policy. This acknowledgment is intended to satisfy California’s post-purchase disclosure requirement and comparable state laws.

3.4 Cancel-at-Will

You may cancel at any time from the “Billing” area of your Account at shodhen.com, or by emailing support@shodhen.com from the address on file. Cancellation is effective immediately for purposes of stopping future renewals. Access to the Service continues through the end of the paid period unless you also request a refund under the Refund Policy.

We do not require you to call, chat, or navigate multiple screens to cancel. The cancel control is a single click from the Billing page.

3.5 Pausing Your Subscription

You may pause your subscription at any time from the Account page at shodhen.com. A pause suspends both delivery of briefings and collection of the next monthly charge. We implement this by calling Stripe’s pause_collection API on your subscription; the current paid period remains open, and when you resume, the period is extended by the duration of the pause so that you receive the briefings you have already paid for.

A pause automatically ends after sixty (60) calendar days if you have not resumed sooner, to keep your subscription in good standing and prevent silent parking. You may resume manually at any time, and you may re-pause after an auto-resume if you need more time away.

A pause does not extend the 7-day refund window described in Section 4 and the Refund Policy. The refund window runs from your first successful charge regardless of whether your subscription is later paused. See the Refund Policy for details.

3.6 Failed Payments

If a renewal payment fails, we may retry the charge, suspend your access, or cancel the subscription. We will notify you by email before suspending or canceling.

3.7 Price Changes

We may change the subscription price. A price change will not apply to you without at least thirty (30) days’ advance notice by email and an opportunity to cancel before the new price takes effect. Your continued subscription after the notice period ends constitutes acceptance of the new price.

3.8 Taxes

Prices are exclusive of applicable taxes unless stated otherwise at checkout. You are responsible for sales, use, VAT, GST, or similar taxes assessed on your subscription, other than taxes on our net income.

4. Refund Policy

Our Refund Policy is set forth in a separate document titled “ShoDhen Refund Policy,” which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. The core promise:

The Refund Policy governs over any inconsistent statement in these Terms.

5. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

(a) resell, redistribute, or republish the briefing content for commercial purposes, except that you may forward an individual briefing to a colleague for their personal review (click tracking on forwarded referral links is described in the Privacy Policy); (b) scrape, crawl, or bulk-download the Service by automated means; (c) reverse-engineer the Service, probe it for vulnerabilities, or attempt to access any account other than your own; (d) use the Service to train a machine-learning model or to build a competing product; (e) use the Service to harass, defame, or harm any person, or for any unlawful purpose; (f) attempt to introduce malware, disrupt the Service, or interfere with any other user’s enjoyment of the Service; (g) remove, obscure, or alter any attribution, copyright notice, or disclaimer in the briefings.

We may suspend or terminate access under Section 12 for breach of this Section.

6. AI-Generated Content

6.1 Nature of the Content

Briefings are generated by large-language-model systems operated by our AI subprocessor (currently Anthropic PBC) from publicly available third-party news, commentary, regulatory filings, and similar sources. The analysis, framing, and recommendations in each briefing are machine-generated.

6.2 No Advice; No Reliance

The briefings are for general information only. They are not legal advice, not financial or investment advice, not medical advice, not tax advice, and not professional advice of any kind. You should not act or refrain from acting on the basis of any briefing without independent verification and, where appropriate, consultation with a qualified professional. We do not warrant that any statement in a briefing is accurate, complete, current, or fit for any particular purpose. AI systems can produce plausible-sounding errors (“hallucinations”), can misattribute quotes, and can miss relevant context. Treat every briefing as a prompt for your own judgment, not a substitute for it.

Each briefing identifies its third-party sources by link. We limit any direct quotation from a source to fewer than fifty (50) consecutive words per source article, enforced programmatically by our briefing pipeline (a briefing whose generated text exceeds the cap against any ingested source is rejected before delivery and reviewed manually). We do not reproduce full articles and we do not host or mirror source content. We rely on multiple authorities, including fair use under 17 U.S.C. § 107, linking doctrine under Perfect 10 v. Amazon, and our own editorial and analytical transformation, as bases for this limited use; we do not concede that any single doctrine is the sole basis.

6.4 Notice of Claimed Infringement (User-Submitted Content)

This section applies to user-submitted content only — support attachments, feedback, and any material a subscriber transmits to us under Section 7.2. Briefing content itself is authored by our AI pipeline under Sections 6.1–6.3 above and is not user-submitted content; claims about briefing content are addressed through Section 6.3’s editorial limits and through general copyright procedure, not through the DMCA notice mechanism below.

If you are a copyright owner (or an agent authorized to act on behalf of one) and you believe user-submitted content transmitted through our Service infringes your copyright, please send a written notice to our Designated Agent that includes the information required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3):

Designated Agent for DMCA Notices Common Nexus LLC 9620 NE Tanasbourne Dr, Suite 300, Hillsboro, OR 97124 Email: dmca@shodhen.com

We will respond to properly formatted notices as required by the DMCA, including by removing or disabling access to the material identified and by providing counter-notification procedures to affected users. Repeat infringers will have their accounts terminated. Common Nexus LLC is registered as a Service Provider with the U.S. Copyright Office; the registration is renewed every three years under 37 C.F.R. § 201.38.

7. Intellectual Property

7.1 Our Content

The briefings, the Service’s look and feel, the software, the ShoDhen and Common Nexus marks, and all selection, arrangement, and editorial framing within the briefings are owned by Common Nexus LLC or our licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and read the briefings for your own business and personal use and to forward individual briefings occasionally to identified colleagues.

7.2 Your Content

You retain ownership of anything you submit to us (for example, the company website URL you supply at signup, support messages, or feedback). By submitting content to us, you grant Common Nexus a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use that content to operate, improve, and support the Service. We will not publish your submissions externally without your consent except as described in the Privacy Policy.

7.3 Third-Party News Content

Third-party article content remains the property of its respective publisher. Our use is limited to linking, attribution, and short-quotation excerpts under the fair-use position described in Section 6.3. Nothing in these Terms transfers any rights in third-party content to you.

7.4 Feedback

If you send us suggestions or feedback, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use that feedback without obligation to you.

8. Data Processing

Our collection, use, retention, and disclosure of personal information is governed by the ShoDhen Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms. By using the Service you acknowledge that your personal information will be processed as described in that policy. The Privacy Policy names the current set of subprocessors and the data we collect, including data retrieved from third-party APIs (HarvestAPI for LinkedIn profile lookups during onboarding, when applicable).

9. Disclaimers of Warranties

THE SERVICE AND ALL BRIEFING CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITH ALL FAULTS, AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, COMMON NEXUS LLC AND ITS OFFICERS, MEMBERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, LICENSORS, AND SUBPROCESSORS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS, AND QUIET ENJOYMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, SECURE, OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS, NOR THAT ANY BRIEFING WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM US CREATES ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you. In that case, the disclaimed warranties apply to the maximum extent permitted by law.

10. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL COMMON NEXUS LLC OR ITS OFFICERS, MEMBERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, LICENSORS, OR SUBPROCESSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOST BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, LOST DATA, OR LOSS OF GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

OUR TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE SUBSCRIPTION FEES YOU ACTUALLY PAID TO US IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM OR (B) ONE THOUSAND U.S. DOLLARS ($1,000).

These limitations form an essential basis of the bargain between you and us. They apply even if a limited remedy fails of its essential purpose. Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitation of liability for certain damages; in those jurisdictions our liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.

11. Indemnification

You will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Common Nexus LLC and its officers, members, employees, contractors, licensors, and subprocessors from and against any third-party claim, demand, loss, or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your breach of these Terms, (b) your violation of any law or third-party right, (c) your misuse of the Service, or (d) any content you submit to us. We may assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, in which case you will cooperate with our defense.

12. Termination

12.1 By You

You may terminate these Terms at any time by canceling your subscription under Section 3.4 and discontinuing use of the Service.

12.2 By Us

We may suspend or terminate your access immediately, with or without notice, if (a) you breach these Terms, (b) we reasonably believe your use of the Service creates legal risk for us or another user, (c) payment fails and is not cured, or (d) we discontinue the Service generally. If we terminate for reasons other than your breach, we will refund any unused prepaid subscription fees on a prorated basis.

12.3 Survival

Sections 5 (to the extent of continuing obligations), 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, and 16, and any other provision that by its nature should survive, survive termination.

13. Governing Law and Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Oregon, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Subject to Section 14, the state courts located in Multnomah County, Oregon, and the federal courts of the District of Oregon, have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service, and you consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts.

Preservation of Local Consumer Rights. If you are a consumer resident in a jurisdiction whose law grants you mandatory rights that cannot be waived by contract (including, without limitation, consumers resident in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or Canada), nothing in these Terms deprives you of the benefit of those mandatory rights. To the extent Oregon law would conflict with a mandatory consumer protection of your home jurisdiction, the mandatory protection applies.

14. Arbitration and Class Action Waiver

14.1 Agreement to Arbitrate

You and Common Nexus LLC agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service (a “Dispute”) will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, and not in court, except as provided in Sections 14.3 and 14.4. The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this Section 14.

14.2 Class Action Waiver

YOU AND COMMON NEXUS LLC AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims and may not preside over any form of representative or class proceeding. If this Section 14.2 is found unenforceable as to any claim, that claim must be severed and brought in court; the remainder of Section 14 remains in force.

14.3 Small-Claims Carve-Out

Either party may bring an individual claim in a small-claims court of competent jurisdiction instead of arbitration, provided the claim remains on an individual (non-class) basis.

14.4 Injunctive Relief Carve-Out

Either party may seek preliminary or injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to prevent actual or threatened infringement of intellectual property rights or unauthorized access to the Service.

14.5 30-Day Right to Opt Out

You may opt out of this Section 14 by sending written notice to arbitration-optout@shodhen.com (or to the postal address in Section 16) within 30 days after the date you first accept these Terms. Your notice must include your name, the email address on your account, and a clear statement that you are opting out of arbitration. Opting out will not affect any other provision of these Terms.

14.6 Location and Fees

Arbitration will proceed in Multnomah County, Oregon, or, at your election, by telephone or video conference, or in the county where you reside. Filing, administrative, and arbitrator fees will be allocated under the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules.

15. Changes to Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. For material changes, we will provide at least thirty (30) days’ advance notice by email to the address on file and by posting the updated Terms at shodhen.com with a revised “Last Updated” date. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you must cancel your subscription before the effective date. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

Non-material changes (for example, typographical corrections, reorganization, or clarifications that do not reduce your rights or expand our rights) take effect when posted.

16. Contact

Questions about these Terms, the Service, billing, or refunds:

Common Nexus LLC Attn: ShoDhen Legal 9620 NE Tanasbourne Dr, Suite 300, Hillsboro, OR 97124 Email: support@shodhen.com Legal notices: legal@shodhen.com DMCA notices: dmca@shodhen.com Privacy inquiries: privacy@shodhen.com

17. Miscellaneous

Entire Agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and Refund Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us concerning the Service and supersede all prior agreements on that subject.

Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, that provision will be reformed only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force.

No Waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, corporate reorganization, or sale of all or substantially all of our assets.

Force Majeure. Neither party is liable for any failure or delay in performance caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, war, terrorism, riot, labor disputes, internet or network failures, or governmental action.

Electronic Communications. You consent to receive communications from us electronically. Electronic notices satisfy any legal requirement that a communication be in writing.

No Third-Party Beneficiaries. These Terms do not create any third-party beneficiary rights.