# AI addendum

Concept · [Business and metrics](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/business)

Also called: AI addenda, AI rider, AI contract addendum

An add-on to a software contract for a product that uses AI. It covers questions the main contract may leave open, such as how the vendor may use the customer's data and whether it may train models on it. [Common Paper](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/common-paper) publishes a free, standard template for this (AI Addendum), made to attach to its [Cloud Service Agreement](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/cloud-service-agreement) or [Software License Agreement](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/licensing).

**For example:** A customer's lawyer asks whether a startup's AI features learn from the customer's documents. The startup adds an AI addendum to the contract that answers this in writing.

## Connects to (5)

- [Cloud service agreement](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/cloud-service-agreement): A contract between a company that sells cloud software and a business that buys it.
- [Data privacy](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/data-privacy): How a company collects, uses, stores and shares information about people.
- [AI use policy](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ai-use-policy): An organization's rules for which AI tools its people may use and what information they may put into them.
- [Training](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/training): Teaching an AI model by showing it a very large number of examples before anyone uses it.
- [Common Paper](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/common-paper): A contract company for startups that publishes free, standard agreements anyone may use and modify, along with software for sending…

> This glossary is plain-language orientation, not legal or financial advice. Before you decide on a company structure, a contract, taxes or a fundraising deal, talk with a lawyer or an accountant.

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