TradesIP™ — brain made of plumbing pipe runs, drawn like a blueprint

ConTech Licensing · TradesIP™ Protocol

Capture the work.
Measure the work.
The trade owns the data.

TradesIP™ is the capture-and-measurement protocol for skilled-trade work. A camera records an installation; the protocol breaks it into its real steps — timed, checked against the standard of work, and flagged for safety — and turns it into labor data the trade itself owns. Any camera works: a phone today, glasses or a hardhat cam tomorrow. And it is built for hardware developers: if you make the device the trade wears or carries, TradesIP is the protocol it speaks.

BETA — in the field now, being built in the open
License the protocol How it works

See it work

A real capture, start to finish: upload the video, mark the steps, get the labor record and the session report.

TradesIP™ protocol trailer. The installation footage is a public instructional video used to exercise the protocol; the labor record building on the right — every step, duration, and the safety flag — is real output from the working product, produced from that capture.

How it works

Three steps, and the third one is the whole point.

Step 1
Capture

Any camera the crew already has — phone today, glasses or hardhat cam tomorrow. The protocol never cares about the device; it defines what a usable capture is, and the consent and data owner are recorded before the first frame is accepted.

Step 2
Measure

Every installation type has a taxonomy — its real steps, in order. The capture is marked against it, so each step gets true timestamps and true durations, with standard-of-work notes and safety checkpoints built in. Human-reviewed, super intelligence (SI)-assisted, never fabricated.

Step 3
Own

The shop owns its data — full stop. Sessions roll up into the shop's own observed labor database: what an installation actually takes, by the people who actually do it. Associations can use it to measure the trade. Insurers get safety evidence, not paperwork.

Why it's different

Plenty of companies want to film tradespeople at work. Almost all of them want the footage for themselves — to train systems the trade will never own. TradesIP was built the other way around.

Built by a plumber, for the trade

ConTech's founder is a fourth-generation plumber. The taxonomies are written in the trade's own terms — the steps, the order, the standard of work — because they come from the work, not from a dataset.

Ownership is in the schema

Not a policy page — the database itself. A capture session cannot exist without recorded consent and a named data owner. The trade's process knowledge stays the trade's property.

Safety is the selling point

Captures document the standard of work and flag safety checkpoints step by step. Documented safe work is evidence an insurer can price — that's a measurable return for the shop, not another dashboard.

License it for your devices or platform

ConTech does not build hardware. We build the protocol and the software layer that make trade-work capture worth something — and we license them to the companies that do build hardware, and to the platforms the trade already runs on.

What a license includes

Watches are in. A wrist is the best proxy for hand activity short of the hand itself — watches are already on the workforce, and their motion and exertion data feed the safety picture. Rings are out for field use: a ring around rotating equipment is a degloving hazard, and a safety product never asks a tradesperson to put one on. Gloves and instrumented tools belong in the training bay, where the same protocol measures apprentices the same way.

Talk to us about a license

Tell us who you are and what you're building. Submissions go straight to ConTech — no form service, no list, no drip campaign.

TradesIP is in beta. Licensing terms are scoped per partner — devices, platform, or association program — after a first conversation.