Throw a Wrench In Your Plans
The Ask John™ companion app for Ray-Ban Meta glasses: capture the job with TradesIP™ while your hands stay on the work, and ask code-strategy questions out loud — answered back, spoken, in the field. Free during the soft launch.
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Ask John™ on Ray-Ban Meta glasses — hands-free TradesIP™ capture and voice code-strategy Q&A, free during the soft launch.
Everything you need, in order. No step is skipped, and nothing records without your say-so.
Ray-Ban Meta glasses — displayless is fine, Gen 1 works — plus the phone they are paired to, with the Meta AI app updated. Your phone stays nearby during a session: it is the companion that runs the app. Apps do not run on the glasses themselves.
On the phone paired to the glasses, open the Meta AI app → Settings → App Info → tap App version 5 times → toggle Developer Mode on. This is what lets a demo build install on the glasses before any public listing exists. Grant camera permission when the app asks.
When the Beta opens, install the companion app on the phone paired to your glasses. There is no download yet — this page will carry the install link the day Beta invites go out. The Beta is invite-only; there is no public store listing yet.
Download — coming soon
No link here on purpose: a download button that goes nowhere would be worse than an honest “coming soon.”
Open the companion app and sign in with your Ask John portal account (magic link, same as the portal). Same account, same wallet — the glasses are a front end to the portal, not a second app.
“Ask John” is the voice keyword. Say it and the companion wakes up, hands-free, phone in your pocket.
Before any capture starts, give spoken consent and confirm your data-owner label (your company name). The session cannot start until both are set. You own the record.
Pick the install type — the demo walks a water heater tank replacement — then walk the steps by voice: “next step,” “mark complete.” The glasses record continuous video plus a timestamped mark at each completed step. That video-plus-marks record is the labor-hours record. One thing to know: closing the hinge ends the session for good — a new session starts fresh, it never resumes a closed one.
Ask code-strategy questions out loud any time. Answers come back spoken, and every spoken answer ends with: “Informational only — confirm with your local authority having jurisdiction before you build.” Your Q&A thread is saved in the portal, same as a typed question.
End the session and find it in your Ask John portal, indistinguishable from a session captured on a phone — same steps, same marks, same video.