From first call
to operational cluster.

Two pre-engagement mechanisms are available before any commercial commitment is required. Pre-Flight Risk Rating: Verde's infrastructure team evaluates your AI workload across three dimensions at no charge. (1) Compute Requirement Audit — cluster sizing, memory bandwidth requirements, and interconnect topology fit against your model architecture and training or inference profile. (2) Data Pipeline Readiness — data ingestion structure, preprocessing pipeline architecture, and storage I/O profile. (3) Infrastructure Fit Rating — a formal A-through-D determination delivered as a written certificate. Rating A or B: Verde can serve your workload as specified. Rating C: specific technical conditions apply, detailed in the subsequent proposal. Rating D: Verde recommends workload restructuring and declines to proceed under current conditions. You know whether Verde is the right infrastructure before committing capital to find out. Compute Option — Reserve Capacity at Today's Pricing: If your production AI deployment is planned 12 to 18 months ahead, Verde offers a structured Compute Option — a signed capacity reservation at current infrastructure pricing, secured with a deposit substantially smaller than your full engagement commitment. Standard market procurement lead times for dedicated GPU clusters have extended to 36–52 weeks in 2026, driven by advanced packaging capacity constraints in the supply chain. Verde's OEM Priority Allocation Track secures hardware delivery within the ~120-day engagement timeline — but queue positions are finite. A Compute Option reserves your delivery slot and pricing before your engagement formally begins. If dedicated GPU infrastructure costs increase before your start date — a risk consistent with observed pricing volatility in the dedicated AI infrastructure market across recent procurement cycles — your locked price is protected. If you choose not to proceed, you forfeit the deposit. Your full engagement budget is never at risk from a price movement before your engagement begins. This is a forward capacity hedge: institutional energy and commodity procurement teams use equivalent structures routinely. AI compute infrastructure warrants the same pricing discipline.

A 30-minute technical conversation. Verde's infrastructure architect maps your AI workload profile, team structure, compliance requirements, and sector-specific constraints. No sales deck. No commitment required. At the close of the call, Verde confirms whether and how it can serve your requirements — or declines if the engagement is not a fit. Following a confirmed fit, Verde issues a written Workload Acceptance Certificate — a formal statement that your AI workload is compatible with Verde's infrastructure architecture as described, referencing the specific technical profile documented in the call. This written acceptance precedes any commercial commitment and creates a documented baseline for the engagement scope. A Verde Engagement Lead (executive or senior advisor) is your contact through discovery and documentation. At contract execution, the 24/7 Operations Desk activates as the single point of contact across all Verde counterparties for the engagement lifetime: hardware questions, insurance queries, compliance documentation, escrow status, and legal correspondence all route through it. P1 first response within 15 minutes, committed in the MSA.

A tailored commercial proposal delivered within 5 business days of the discovery call. Includes: dedicated GPU cluster specification and configuration, engineering team structure (minimum 15 L3+ GPU Infrastructure Certified engineers), SLA Schedule, compliance posture, optional add-ons, and engagement timeline. The SLA Schedule covers two dimensions: (1) availability — contractual uptime commitment; (2) performance — p99 inference latency under your defined production load, measured and independently certified at Go-Live. Verde does not include "best efforts" or "commercially reasonable efforts" clauses — your cluster is reserved exclusively for your engagement, capacity is contractually committed, and performance degradation is treated as an SLA event, not a tolerated condition. Each proposal is unique to your workload — not a templated brochure. A third SLA dimension is available on request: Temporal SLA — contractually defined milestone dates for Verde's infrastructure deliverables within your engagement. Confirmed milestone delays attributable to Verde trigger a documented, escrow-waterfall-sourced compensation event independently verified by the Independent Engineer. Temporal SLA is a project delivery commitment — distinct from the availability and performance SLA dimensions and independent of the Surety Bond mechanism.

Commercial terms agreed and Term Sheet & NDA executed via secure e-signature platform. Following NDA execution, Verde provides access to the restricted data room — containing the Independent Engineer report, insurance schedule (21-policy consortium), compliance framework documentation, and facility specifications. SPV incorporation begins immediately after Term Sheet execution: a dedicated Delaware LLC in 10–15 business days. Your contract is with that SPV — one client, one entity, legally ring-fenced from any other Verde engagement and from Verde Inc. itself. If Verde Inc. were to face any corporate-level event, your SPV continues independently under its own legal structure, with an independently held escrow and a pre-paid insurance consortium that remains active regardless of Verde Inc.'s corporate status. A Surety Bond is bound at this stage — a direct financial guarantee to your organisation if Verde fails to deliver. Change-of-Control protection is defined in the MSA: if Verde Inc.'s ownership changes to a non-approved counterparty, you retain the right to exit without remaining financial obligation. All agreements are governed by U.S. law with exclusive jurisdiction in Delaware. Data sovereignty is protected not by jurisdictional claims but by architectural design: Verde holds no decryption keys and therefore cannot produce plaintext client data — Verde cannot provide what Verde does not hold. For financial-sector clients operating under DORA (Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 — in force January 17, 2025), Verde's single-client SPV structure is a structural answer to the ICT concentration risk requirement: your infrastructure is legally ring-fenced from any other Verde engagement and from Verde Inc. itself. DORA-mandated contractual provisions — SLA performance targets, audit and access rights, resilience testing obligations, and exit-plan documentation — are built into the MSA at signing, not added retrospectively. For healthcare and life sciences clients, a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA) is executed at Term Sheet stage — not retrospectively at go-live. Verde acts as Business Associate for all qualifying healthcare engagements. BAA execution is included as standard in the Term Sheet package. Verde never accesses or processes Protected Health Information directly: architectural zero-access (Hardware-Native TEE + BYOK) ensures Verde holds no decryption capability for PHI workloads.

The formal close event where all legal, financial, and operational agreements execute simultaneously — and the 120-day delivery countdown begins. MSA and SLA Schedule signed by both parties. Delaware SPV confirmed and active. Five segregated escrow accounts opened with an independent institutional trustee — your monthly fees flow into Account A (Revenue Collection) and are distributed on a fixed 7-tier waterfall: (1) Senior obligations — contractually first priority; (2) Operating costs — data centre colocation, power, dedicated engineering team, hardware maintenance, insurance premiums, and Verde management allocation; (3) Structural reserve replenishment; (4) Supplemental reserve contribution; (5) Operational reserve; (6) Contingency Reserve — a structural buffer held by the independent trustee before any Verde equity distribution; (7) Verde equity distribution — residual only, last in the waterfall. Escrow mechanics and waterfall sequence are fully disclosed in the Escrow Term Sheet at NDA execution. Client funds are held in segregated accounts and never commingled with Verde corporate cash. Insurance consortium bound at close — 21 policies, pre-paid for the full engagement term, client named as Additional Insured. Surety Bond bound at close. Independent Engineer certifies readiness. Hardware Conditional Purchase Order (CPO) to the approved OEM vendor becomes unconditional at Financial Close — payment triggered, delivery queue position confirmed, hardware procurement commences. Procurement documentation and supply chain qualification records are available in the restricted data room. The ~120-day Go-Live timeline is measured from this date.

Engineering team recruitment begins in parallel with SPV incorporation. Target: minimum 15 named engineers — NOC Leads and Senior GPU/ML Engineers onboarded within 30 days; full team within 60 days of contract signing. Engineers are listed by name in the MSA Named Personnel Schedule (Exhibit A) and contractually prohibited from working on any other Verde engagement without written client consent. Hardware: dedicated GPU cluster delivered to the Pacific Northwest Tier III data centre — powered by regional hydroelectric baseload energy, certified via WREGIS Renewable Energy Certificates. Facility meets Uptime Institute Tier III specification, which requires N+1 power and cooling redundancy, multiple concurrent-maintainable distribution paths, and a design availability target supporting a 99.982% uptime standard. Rack installation, direct liquid cooling commissioning, dedicated power circuit energisation, 72-hour full-capacity burn-in, platform software stack activation. Following data centre installation, Verde NOC and the hardware vendor's field team jointly conduct a 24-hour on-site acceptance test. Pass threshold: 97% of factory benchmark performance — a contractually defined, independently certified standard. Failure triggers mandatory vendor remediation within 48 hours. Burn-in and acceptance test results are formally delivered to the client and archived as part of the engagement record.

Verde NOC issues a written Go-Live Declaration confirming: hardware acceptance testing passed, GPU telemetry monitoring active, platform software stack operational, minimum 15 named engineers on shift and active, SLA tracking system live. The Independent Engineer independently validates both operational status and SLA performance: p99 inference latency is tested under your production load profile and certified before the SLA clock starts — performance SLA takes effect from Day 1, not after a grace period. This date is the single common reference point across all counterparty agreements — facility, hardware, and software licensing all run from this date, not from separate delivery dates. Your team receives API credentials and cluster access documentation. SLA clock starts. 30-day hypercare period begins. The ~120-day timeline from Financial Close to this declaration is contractually committed — not a sales projection. Verde achieves ~120 days through simultaneous SPV formation, hardware vendor CPO activated at Financial Close, and parallel team onboarding — all orchestrated as a single close event.