Terms of Service

These terms are the agreement between you and char for using the website at planwithchar.netlify.app, the Monday email, the bid calculator and everything else we offer (together, the “Service”). By using the Service or signing up, you agree to them. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the Service.

1. Who we are

char (Construction Hub for Automated Reporting) is a business based in Kansas City, Kansas. “char,” “we,” “us” and “our” mean that business. “You” means the person using the Service, and the company you sign up for, if you sign up on behalf of a company. If you sign up for a company, you confirm you’re allowed to agree to these terms for it.

The Service is for businesses and adults. You must be at least 18 to use it.

2. What char is

char reads public records, including city planning commission and city council agendas, staff reports, applications and public bid results. It organizes them into a list of upcoming construction projects. For each project it shows the size, a plain-English stage, the companies named in the city’s documents (such as the developer, owner, engineer or attorney) and links to the official records. Subscribers get a weekly email for their trade and cities. The site also includes a bid calculator and a history of public bid results.

Today char covers Kansas City MO, Lee’s Summit MO and Olathe KS. Coverage, features and the design of the Service may change over time.

3. char is information, not professional advice

Everything char shows, including stages, timing estimates (“construction likely in 6–18 months”), suggested next steps, bid history, permit cost ranges and bid calculator results, is general information to help you research. It is not legal, engineering, estimating, financial, accounting or business advice. It doesn’t replace your own judgment, your estimator, or the official documents.

The bid calculator only does math on the numbers you enter and compares them with past public results. You alone decide what to bid, whether to bid, and whom to contact. char is not responsible for any bid, contract, purchase or business decision you make.

4. Accuracy of the information

We work hard to get things right, but char is compiled automatically, partly with the help of AI, from records that are themselves sometimes incomplete, late or wrong. Projects can be missed, misread, merged, delayed, changed or cancelled. Names, sizes, dates, stages and amounts may be wrong or out of date. Hearings get continued, and approvals get reversed.

Always check the linked official city record before you act on anything you see in char. If you spot a mistake, tell us at the address below and we’ll fix it.

5. Free month, billing and cancelling

• Price. The char plan is $400 per month, unless we agree on a different price with you in writing.
• Free first month. New subscribers get their first month free. No card is needed to start. Before it ends, we’ll contact you to set up billing. If you don’t set up billing, your emails simply stop. Nothing is charged automatically.
• Paying. After the free month, the plan is billed monthly in advance, by the payment method we agree on. Payment is due when we bill you. If a payment is more than 15 days late, we may pause your emails until it’s paid.
• Cancelling. You can cancel any time by emailing us or replying to any char email with “cancel.” Your service continues to the end of the month you’ve paid for. We don’t refund partial months, except where the law requires it.
• Price changes. We’ll give you at least 30 days’ notice by email before changing your price. The new price applies from your next month after the notice. If you don’t want it, you can cancel before then.
• Taxes. Prices don’t include any sales or other taxes that may apply. You’re responsible for those.

6. How you may use char

Your subscription is for your own company’s internal use: finding work, planning and bidding. You may share individual projects with your own coworkers and with partners on a specific job. You may not:

• Resell, republish, forward in bulk, or redistribute the char emails, project lists or bid history, or build a competing product or database from them.
• Scrape, copy or download the Service with bots or automated tools, or try to get around any limits we put in place.
• Interfere with, overload, probe or hack the Service, or use it to send spam or malware.
• Use the Service for anything illegal, harassing, discriminatory or deceptive.
• Pretend to be someone else, or give us false information when you sign up.

7. Contacting the companies you find

char shows the names of companies from public records so you know who is behind a project. char doesn’t provide personal contact details, and isn’t affiliated with, endorsed by or speaking for any company, city or agency it lists. When you reach out to anyone you find through char, you are responsible for doing it professionally and lawfully, including following anti-spam, telemarketing and do-not-call laws. Don’t tell anyone that char or a city referred you.

If you are named in a record shown on char and believe it’s wrong or shouldn’t appear, email us and we’ll review it promptly.

8. Bid results you share

The bid calculator lets you share a bid result. When you do, you confirm that:

• the information is accurate to the best of your knowledge, and
• you’re allowed to share it: it isn’t confidential, and sharing it doesn’t break any contract, NDA or law.

Please don’t include your name, other companies’ names, or anyone’s personal details. You give char a permanent, worldwide, royalty-free right to use, check, combine, edit and publish what you share, in summary or anonymous form, as part of the bid history. We never show your name or company next to a shared result. We may decline or remove any submission.

9. Emails

When you sign up, you ask us to send you the weekly char email and messages about your account and billing. Every marketing email includes a way to unsubscribe. Reply “unsubscribe” and we’ll stop within 10 business days. Account and billing messages may still be sent while you have an open balance.

10. Who owns what

The underlying public records belong to the public and the agencies that publish them. char’s website, design, logo, the name “char,” the way we select, organize, summarize and present the information, our software and the bid calculator belong to char and are protected by copyright and other laws. These terms give you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service as described here while your account is in good standing. Nothing else is transferred to you.

If you send us suggestions or feedback, we may use them without owing you anything.

11. Other websites

char links to city, state and other websites we don’t control. We aren’t responsible for their content, availability or privacy practices.

12. No warranties

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent the law allows, char makes no warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We don’t promise that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that it will help you win any work.

13. Limits on our liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, char will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost bids, lost contracts, lost data or business interruption, arising from or related to the Service, even if we were told they were possible. Our total liability for any claim related to the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid char in the 12 months before the claim, or (b) $100.

Some places don’t allow some of these limits. Where that’s the case, they apply only as far as the law allows.

14. Your responsibility

You agree to defend and hold char harmless from claims, losses and costs (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) that come from your misuse of the Service, your breaking these terms or the law, how you contact others, or information you share with us.

15. Ending the agreement

You can stop using char and cancel at any time (section 5). We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms, don’t pay, or if we stop offering the Service. If we stop offering the Service for reasons other than your breaking these terms, we’ll refund any month you’ve paid for but not received. Sections 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17 and 18 continue after the agreement ends.

16. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We’ll change the date at the top, and for important changes we’ll email subscribers at least 14 days before they take effect. If you keep using char after that, you accept the new terms. If you don’t, you can cancel.

17. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Kansas, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. If a dispute comes up, please email us first. Most things can be sorted out quickly. If it can’t be resolved within 30 days, it will be decided only in the state or federal courts located in Wyandotte County, Kansas, and you and char agree to those courts’ jurisdiction. Either of us may bring a qualifying claim in small claims court instead.

18. General

These terms, along with our Privacy Policy and any written price agreement, are the whole agreement between you and char about the Service. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest still applies. If we don’t enforce a part right away, we haven’t given it up. You may not transfer this agreement without our written consent. We may transfer it if char is sold or reorganized. Neither of us is responsible for delays caused by events outside our reasonable control.

19. Contact

Questions about these terms: planwithcharapp@gmail.com
By mail: char, 7350 State Ave, Kansas City, KS 66112