Contingency Plans

In the event that primary mitigation strategies prove insufficient or external factors disrupt operations, AETHRA has prepared the following contingency protocols:

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Manual Matching Fallback

Trigger: AI model performance drops below operational thresholds Action: Revert to human-supervised matching workflows until retraining is complete and validated

Smart Contract Rollbacks & Patches

Trigger: Discovery of a critical smart-contract vulnerability Action: Pause credential or staking functions, deploy patched contracts, and migrate data with minimal downtime

Regulatory “Pause Mode”

Trigger: Sudden legal changes (e.g. GDPR, crypto restrictions) affecting data or on-chain actions Action: Disable impacted features temporarily while legal review and engineering adjustments are made

Temporary Support Scaling

Trigger: Adoption resistance or unexpected onboarding friction causing elevated support demand Action: Expand customer success team capacity and assign dedicated account managers to pilot cohorts

Emergency Infrastructure Scaling

Trigger: Traffic or compute usage exceeds provisioned thresholds Action: Leverage burstable cloud credits, activate read-only database replicas, and deploy caching fallbacks to maintain platform responsiveness

Failure Scenario	Fallback Action
AI model failure	Manual override + retraining loop
Contract exploit	Patch + migrate with emergency pause
Legal/regulatory disruption	“Pause mode” for affected features
Spike in support needs	Expand team, offer 1:1 onboarding
Infrastructure overload	Cloud burst + high-availability deployment fallback