ConTech Licensing · White-Box Ask John™
Your brand on the door.
Ask John™ under the hood.
White-Box Ask John™ is the Ask John platform licensed as your own instance: AI Q&A for code strategy, the Smooth Estimator™, submittals, scheduling, safety toolbox talks, and contract review — delivered as a source snapshot that runs under your company's name, on your domain, with your keys and your data. Same platform our own customers use. Your name on it.
What's in the box
A working platform, not a slide deck. Everything below is the production Ask John codebase, packaged for one company: yours.
The complete portal: AI Q&A for code strategy, estimating with the Smooth Estimator™ tools, submittal building, scheduling, safety toolbox talks, contract review, projects and files — plus PlumbPrint™ library access for your instance, where licensed.
The complete codebase for your instance, delivered as a versioned snapshot your team can host, inspect, and run. No black box, no runtime dependency on ConTech's servers.
Your company name, your logo, your brand color — applied as configuration-level tweaks with you before handoff, so the platform your people log into looks and reads like yours from day one.
Your domain and hosting. Your AI API keys. Your payment processing. Your accounts, your bills, your data — ConTech never touches your customers' information.
Install and launch guidance from the people who built it, so your instance goes live clean instead of becoming an IT project.
The platform keeps moving. Under an annual maintenance plan, new version snapshots are made available to your instance — you choose when to take them.
How it works
Straightforward because the platform was built that way: Ask John is single-tenant by design, so a white-box instance is a copy plus branding configuration — not a multi-tenancy rebuild, and not a year of development.
We agree the license: which modules, what field of use, what term. A sample agreement goes to your counsel to redline — the paper is structured per deal, like every ConTech license.
Your name, logo, and color go in as configuration. We hand over the snapshot and the deployment guidance, and stand behind the launch with you.
Your instance, your users, your data. The maintenance plan keeps new version snapshots coming; the support tier in your agreement defines exactly what you can call on us for.
Who it's for
Three kinds of buyers ask for this. All three want the same thing: the platform, without building it.
Your own internal platform for your PMs, foremen, and office — your brand, your standards, your people's data on your infrastructure.
A member benefit under your name: the tools your members need, in the place they already trust, without standing up a software team.
A proven codebase under your brand — the estimating, submittal, and code-strategy machinery your roadmap doesn't have two years to grow.
The lines that come with it
Plain terms, stated up front, so nobody's surprised after signing.
- ConTech keeps the IP — all intellectual property in the platform, the code, and the marks stays with ConTech. You license an instance; you don't acquire the platform.
- No sublicensing or resale — your instance serves your company, your members, or your customers under your brand. The platform itself is not yours to re-license or resell.
- Your data is yours — the users, projects, and files inside your instance belong to you, full stop.
- Non-exclusive — ConTech licenses the same platform to others and runs the hosted Ask John service. Your instance is yours; it isn't the only one.
- Support is a defined tier — what's covered, how fast, and through what channel is written into the agreement. It is not an unlimited help desk.
The licensing menu
Two products, one licensor. Each is licensed on its own; they also run together.
The governed library of printable plumbing interface parts — the safety-fenced catalog, download gate, and manufacturer routing, under your platform's roof.
The Ask John platform as your own branded instance — source snapshot, your branding, your infrastructure. You're reading its page.
How licensing works
Structure before numbers: every white-box deployment is scoped individually — instance size, modules, and support tier drive the shape of the deal — so terms are set in a first conversation, not on a web page.
- We start under NDA — a short mutual non-disclosure agreement comes first, before any demo, technical deep-dive, or source review. It protects your plans and our method while both sides evaluate the fit — and it has no residuals clause, so what either side shows the other stays theirs.
- License + setup — the platform license and the branding/handoff work, scoped per deal.
- Annual maintenance — the update path: new version snapshots for your instance, plus the support tier your agreement defines.
- Non-exclusive by default — field of use, territory, and term are set per deal.
- Paper your counsel can work with — the mutual NDA and sample license agreements are available to redline; final terms are papered per deal.
- You bring the company; ConTech brings the platform — and the trade credibility of a tool built by a fourth-generation plumber.
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.