4ORM FINANCE
PRE-SEED DATA ROOM · CONFIDENTIAL
08.6

Founder & CEO
Commitment Statement

Chad R. Johnston's personal, durable commitment to 4orm Finance Inc.: the mission, full-time exclusivity, capital and risk borne, and personal adherence to every Mission Anchor bar.

PREPARED BY
Chad R. Johnston · Founder & CEO
ROUND STATUS
Pre-Seed $3M
Opens July 1, 2026
CATEGORY
08 · Corporate
Document 08.6
UPDATED
June 2026
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THE
COMMITMENT

What the CEO commits to, personally

This statement records my personal commitment to 4orm Finance Inc., the company I am incorporating in British Columbia and intend to lead as Founder and Chief Executive Officer. It is intended to make my commitments explicit and durable, to my co-founders, the Mission Stewardship Trustee, the Company's investors and partners, the Advisory Council, and the team we will build. The terms here apply to me alone, and impose on me a standard at least as high as any other member of the founding team.

The mission I am committing to. 4orm exists to help the Canadian financial system become independent and sovereign, to protect Canadians from inflationary asset erosion and currency debasement, and to build the regulated infrastructure that lets Canadians buy, sell, move, store, and verify assets without political interference, arbitrary gatekeeping, or rent-seeking intermediaries. The Mission Anchor in the Articles binds the Company. This statement binds me to it personally.
Full-time, exclusive engagement. 4orm is and will be my sole operating commitment. I have wound down or stepped back from every other operating role I previously held. For the duration of my service as CEO I will not take on any other operating role, consulting engagement, or competing professional commitment except as expressly disclosed to and approved by the Advisory Council and the board. There is no other plate behind this. There is only this.
Capital and risk borne. I have funded the Company's pre-incorporation work personally and brought in its first outside capital. I commit to continuing to bear personal financial risk where appropriate and within reason, including by absorbing dilution to keep my co-founders' economic positions clean, and by maintaining founder economics that reflect the origination, capital, and risk I have undertaken.
Fiduciary standards. I commit to the standards of care, loyalty, candour, and good faith owed by a director and officer under applicable law. On incorporation as a benefit company under Part 2.3 of the BCBCA, I commit to the modified director duty under section 51.993 to balance the public benefits in the benefit provision with my general fiduciary duty, and to a higher personal standard of transparency than the law strictly requires.
Accountability on the same terms. I subject my own equity to the same reverse-vesting framework that governs the rest of the founding team, four-year vest with a one-year cliff, with the secured carve-out and time-served credit documented in the cap table (document 08.1). I subject my own performance to the Advisory Council's ongoing review on the same basis as my partners. I do not exempt myself from the structures I am asking others to live by.
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MISSION ANCHOR
ADHERENCE

The bars, in the first person

I commit, personally and explicitly, to every commitment of the Mission Anchor (document 08.4), including each Absolute Bar: no participation in politically or faith-motivated account closures or extra-judicial freezes; no sharing of customer data absent a final court order with judicial review available; no participation in debanking coalitions, shared blacklists, or de-risking outside legal process; no programmable-restriction infrastructure; no surveillance or data monetization for advertising, profiling, social credit, or ideological assessment; no social-credit or ideological gatekeeping; no deplatforming for protected expression or belief; no commingling, rehypothecation, or pledging of customer assets; no quarterly earnings targets used as a primary directional input; no retaliation against any person for the principled exercise of refusal; and no surrender or weakening of any Mission Anchor provision under political, commercial, regulatory, or shareholder pressure outside of law.

WHAT I COMMIT NOT TO DO

I will not take on competing commitments during my service as CEO. I will not compromise the Mission Anchor for capital, partnerships, or expediency. I will not prioritize personal economic interest over the Company's long-term integrity. I will not avoid the difficult conversations the role requires. And I will not ask of any co-founder, employee, or advisor a standard of commitment I am not first prepared to hold myself.

Horizon. My commitment is multi-year and runs through the full arc of the Company's growth, from incorporation through pre-seed, seed, Series A, and beyond. I am not building this for the next milestone or the next round. I am building it for what it is meant to become, on a horizon measured in decades.
Signed and committed:
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Chad R. Johnston · Founder & Chief Executive Officer · 4orm Finance Inc. · Date: _____________

Acknowledged:
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Chair, Advisory Council · 4orm Finance Inc. · Date: _____________

Statement dated May 2026. Reproduced for the data room; the executed original is held by the Company.

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