two modes · one principle

Predictions: pay.
Discovery: partner.

If you're using dydact to apply existing structural intelligence to known classes, it's a transaction. If you're using dydact to find something that didn't exist before, dydact is a stakeholder in what comes out. Not a licensing fee. An equity + IP-sharing partnership. Non-negotiable entry condition for discovery-class endpoints.

mode 1 — predictions

Transaction fee. Commoditized. Academic-free.

Apply the trained v0.3 operator to known compound classes. Fast, cheap, no IP claim on output. Most use cases live here.

Endpoints in this mode

  • POST /api/v1/predict/tc
  • POST /api/v1/predict/tc/sweep
  • POST /api/v1/holdout/run
  • GET /api/v1/calibration/:basis
  • GET /api/v1/models

How you pay

  • Academic — free. 1,000 predictions/day/key. Dept-level granularity. Publication-track.
  • Corporate — per-call. Volume tiers. No IP claim on output. Bulk commodity model.
  • Enterprise — contracted. Unmetered. Dedicated infrastructure. Private model pin.
mode 2 — discovery

Retainer AND equity. Both conditions, always.

Discovery endpoints run void-boundary inversion and candidate synthesis — they find compounds and configurations that didn't exist in training. Access is not free and not contingent on outcome. You pay a retainer for the privilege of running the substrate, and dydact holds equity + IP rights in anything that ships. Both terms apply independently.

Hypothetical discovery has zero value to dydact. Real substrate time has real cost — bare-metal GPU bursts, calibration maintenance, operator support, schema auditing. The retainer funds those. The equity captures upside when real discoveries emerge. dydact is not a charity experiment stand.

Endpoints in this mode

  • POST /api/v1/oracle/synthesize
  • POST /api/v1/candidates/rank
  • POST /api/v1/training/init

Blocked until retainer cleared + agreement signed.

1 · Retainer — paid, always

Annual retainer or per-engagement fee. Funds substrate time, compute bursts, operator support, calibration maintenance. Scaled by vertical: pharma ≫ semis > advanced materials > other. Paid regardless of whether the engagement produces a commercial discovery.

No retainer → no access. Quoted per engagement after intake call.

2 · Equity + IP — on outcome

  • 33%+ equity in ventures commercializing discovery-derived IP
  • Joint patent filing within 24 months of contributing calls
  • "Powered by dydact" attribution clause
  • Governance scaled to stake
  • Spigot retention — analogs, next-gen, dose opts stay gated through dydact

Why retainer AND equity

The retainer filters. Serious engagements commit real budget before first call; tire-kickers self-select out. It also funds the real cost of running discovery — bare-metal GPU bursts, operator time, calibration runs, response schema auditing — which are not free to dydact regardless of whether your experiment converges.

The equity captures upside the retainer can't price at agreement time. A 2% royalty on a breakthrough caps at single-digit millions a year for a bounded patent window. A 33% stake compounds indefinitely across every product, every next-gen iteration, every adjacent market the venture expands into.

We keep the spigot. Post-discovery, optimizations and extensions still run through dydact's operator. The partner keeps the discovery; dydact keeps the ongoing refinement channel. That alignment is why the structure holds long-term.

discovery verticals

Where dydact actively partners.

We don't chase every field. Discovery partnerships concentrate on verticals where the geometric substrate has a structural advantage over existing methods and where the IP value justifies the partnership model.

Superconductors

Tc prediction + novel-compound synthesis across BCS / iron-pnictide / cuprate / hydride regimes. Paper validates the methodology.

Drug discovery

Target-binding affinity + molecular candidate generation under physiological conditions. Requires HIPAA + pharma GMP compliance overlay.

Post-silicon chip design

Novel semiconductor and qubit-class material candidates. Cross-modal substrate (molecular × cad × reaction_conditions).

Advanced materials

High-temperature alloys, metamaterials, catalysts. Corpus expansion in progress for cond-mat scope.

Clinical-regulatory

Pharma trial candidate shortlisting with confabulation-rated confidence. Enterprise tier + GMP overlay.

Your vertical?

Discovery work in a field we haven't opened yet? Email access@dydact.io with what you're attacking and why the geometric substrate applies.

how to engage

Intake flow.

If you want predictions

  1. Apply via the signup form
  2. Pick academic / corporate / enterprise
  3. Approval wave issues a scoped key (prediction endpoints only)
  4. Run the cookbook examples · pay per-call (or free on academic)

If you want discovery

  1. Email access@dydact.io with a one-page brief: vertical, hypothesis, expected IP class
  2. 15-min intro call to scope the partnership structure
  3. Discovery agreement drafted (equity %, attribution, spigot terms)
  4. Agreement executed · discovery key issued · first call opens the engagement
compliance overlay

Stacked on top of whichever mode you're in.

Regulatory surface is orthogonal to prediction-vs-discovery. A pharma discovery partnership stacks HIPAA + GMP on top of the discovery agreement; a materials prediction corporate contract might only need GDPR + SOC 2.

GDPR

EU residency (default — substrate runs in EU jurisdiction). Right-to-erasure on non-anonymized inputs.

SOC 2 Type II

Annual attestation. Access control reviews + audit retention. Enterprise add-on.

HIPAA (via scraiv)

BAA + PHI firewall + encrypted-at-rest everything. Shared compliance stack with scraiv.io. Discovery-tier pharma partnerships.

ISO 27001

ISMS alignment. Enterprise default.

Pharma GMP

Production readiness for regulatory submissions. Contracted per engagement.

FedRAMP / DoD

US-jurisdiction substrate + air-gapped shard. On-request.

academic tier

Free. Generous. Mission-aligned.

One key per department per university. 1,000 predictions/day default. Hold-out endpoints for paper reproduction. Cite the dydact paper when you publish; we track paper count as the primary academic-tier metric.

Academics DO NOT get discovery-endpoint access by default — the IP structure there is built for commercial partnerships. If your academic work legitimately requires discovery-endpoint use (e.g. a grant-funded program with pre-negotiated IP terms), email access@dydact.io and we'll scope a dept-level discovery arrangement.

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