diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index e8cfb9b..b6d9dc4 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "librender_cdk/extern/dotenv-cpp"]
 	path = librender_cdk/extern/dotenv-cpp
 	url = https://github.com/lexara-prime-ai/dotenv-cpp
+[submodule "librender_cdk/extern/json"]
+	path = librender_cdk/extern/json
+	url = https://github.com/lexara-prime-ai/json.git
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 8b37c52..1d1c75d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -80,5 +80,5 @@ clean: cpp-clean
 
 
 # deps:
-# apt-get install libjsoncpp-dev
+# sudo apt -y install nlohmann-json3-dev
 #
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/librender_cdk/extern/json b/librender_cdk/extern/json
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..1825117
--- /dev/null
+++ b/librender_cdk/extern/json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 1825117e630636f5c7c71a852855d5249cf2b7ff
diff --git a/librender_cdk/main_executable b/librender_cdk/main_executable
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..79da8db
Binary files /dev/null and b/librender_cdk/main_executable differ
diff --git a/librender_cdk/src/service_manager.cpp b/librender_cdk/src/service_manager.cpp
index 6742bd7..c30cb46 100644
--- a/librender_cdk/src/service_manager.cpp
+++ b/librender_cdk/src/service_manager.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #include "service_manager.h"
+#include <jsoncpp/json/json.h>
 #include <iostream>
 #include <sstream>
 
diff --git a/librender_cdk/src/service_manager.h b/librender_cdk/src/service_manager.h
index 60f72f5..b4524a5 100644
--- a/librender_cdk/src/service_manager.h
+++ b/librender_cdk/src/service_manager.h
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 #define SERVICE_MANAGER_H
 
 #include <curl/curl.h>
-#include <jsoncpp/json/json.h>
+#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
 #include <string>
 #include <vector>