Tech Connector / Licensing

Build more. Choose what you give back.

Choose the license that fits your work. Community is free for personal and noncommercial projects. Community Plus is the proposed path for registered commercial projects that want to support creators connected to the AI tools they use. Indie is paid without project residuals, and Enterprise starts with a conversation.

Checkout status: Indie Annual is $99/year and Indie Perpetual is $300 one-time per named user. Payment is not open yet. No card details are collected on this site, and selecting a plan does not charge you or activate Tech Connector. Final terms and taxes will be shown before payment opens.
License type
Free

Community

Planned: Early Supporter

For personal and noncommercial projects. No purchase or project residual agreement.

  • Free license request
  • Verified account and signed activation required for the beta
  • Commercial use requires another license path

Windows beta and source options

Free to join · proposed creator support

Community Plus

Planned: Early Adopter

For creators who want to make commercial projects and give back to the wider creative community connected to the AI tools. There is no upfront license charge; a project residual is proposed if that project earns a profit.

  • The rate begins at 0% when project profit is zero
  • The proposed allocation is 80% of collected residuals for eligible creators and 20% for the studio
  • The calculation and creator payout rules must be finalized before anyone accepts

Why choose Community Plus?

Paid named-user license

Indie Annual

Planned: Early Adopter

For eligible creators and teams of 25 or fewer people. $99 USD per named user per year. The final offer will state covered releases, renewal and support terms. No project residual for covered use.

  • One verified person per seat
  • Any applicable taxes shown before payment
  • DCC Tools Pack is a separate optional add-on
One-time named-user license

Indie Perpetual

Planned: Early Adopter

For eligible creators seeking a perpetual grant for the major version named in the final offer. $300 USD one-time per named user.

  • One verified person per seat
  • Covered major version and taxes shown before payment
  • No project residual for covered use
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Enterprise & Custom

For larger organizations, major corporate IP, redistribution, hosted services, or negotiated rights. Scope, seats, support, and price require an approved written order.

Recognizing the people who join early

We plan to record Early Supporter for verified Community accounts and Early Adopter for verified Community Plus and Indie accounts. The designation will be stored with the account when a qualifying license is issued. We want to find ways to return value to these people if the company succeeds, but no reward, payment, equity, discount, or eligibility window is promised yet. Any future benefit will have separate published terms. Community Plus's proposed creator-support residual is a separate program.

Community

Request a free Community license for personal and noncommercial use.

This sends an access request; it does not create a license or charge you.

Why Community Plus?

A creator-support path for AI-assisted work

Tech Connector includes AI features. Community Plus is our proposed way for projects using those tools to contribute back to people in the creative community, including creators whose work may have contributed to AI training. It is an optional alternative to the paid Indie licenses.

Start without an upfront license fee

The proposed project residual starts at 0% when profit is zero and rises with project success. Final commercial-use terms are still being prepared.

Support creative contributors

The intended creator share reaches beyond our studio. Eligible artists and other contributors would receive the creator portion under a defined attribution and payout process.

See the rules before opting in

We will publish the exact rate calculation, reporting rules, creator eligibility, and payout method before accepting a Community Plus agreement.

Community Plus residual: proposed terms

Proposed allocation of collected residuals:

There is no upfront fee. If a registered project's lifetime Adjusted Project Profit is zero, its residual is zero. The effective rate reaches 0.5% at $500,000 and 2% at $20 million, applying to the whole lifetime adjusted profit at the current rate. Earlier residual payments count toward that total.

The exact rate between those points, the treatment of later profit reductions, reporting dates, and the eligibility and attribution method for creator payouts still need to be defined in the agreement. This page does not identify or pay creators. It is not the contract and does not accept residual terms.

Want to support the studio with merchandise instead? Visit the merch page. The Tech Connector T-shirt is sold separately by Printify; buying it is optional and does not change your license or residual agreement.

Sign up for Tech Connector access

Tell us which license you need. We will review your request and contact you about availability and terms. Sending this form does not create an account, issue a license, or charge you.

Your request goes through the same contact form provider used by this site. We will request any installation details needed for a device-bound license later.

Optional merch for every license: see the Tech Connector T-shirt. The shirt uses a separate Printify checkout and does not affect this request.
Windows beta candidate available. The portable beta ZIP is unsigned and does not activate a license. Request a signed, device-bound license file for access. Community and Community Plus users review their applicable terms; paid Indie and Enterprise users do not see the Community prompt.

Existing Cinematic Exporter, Character Pipeline Toolkit, and Complete Production Toolkit purchases use their separate Gumroad checkout. Those purchases do not automatically activate Tech Connector Core or the Official Tools Bundle.

See the Windows beta download and validation status before installing.