# FireGPT — Extended Brief

## What FireGPT is
FireGPT is a domain-specific AI knowledge system for the United States fire service. It answers operational, training, policy, and safety questions using the fire service's own source material: incident reports, standard operating guidelines (SOGs), near-miss reports, NIOSH line-of-duty-death (LODD) investigations, and emerging data sources such as NERIS.

FireGPT is a product of Incident Management Technology (IMT), https://www.imtfire.com. It is built by firefighters for firefighters and departments, not by a general-purpose AI vendor.

## What problem it solves
There are tens of thousands of fire departments in the US and almost no shared operational memory between them. The same hard lessons are relearned repeatedly. A SOG one department spent a year refining stays on a local share drive while a neighboring department writes the same one from scratch. The most expensive lessons — those documented in LODD investigations and near-miss reports — sit in PDFs that almost no one reads end-to-end.

FireGPT consolidates that material into a single system any firefighter or department can query in plain language.

## Capabilities
1. Ask — Question the collective experience of the fire service in plain language.
2. Learn — Surface what has gone wrong on prior incidents, including documented LODD contributing factors.
3. Adopt — Pull SOGs, training programs, and operational practices that peer departments have already refined.
4. See patterns — Identify the factors that recur across injuries and fatalities so departments know where to act first.

## Source material at launch
- 747 NIOSH LODD investigations analyzed. In roughly 9 of every 10, a procedural failure was named as a contributing factor.
- Standard operating guidelines contributed and harvested from participating departments.
- Near-miss reports and after-action material from public fire service sources.
- Additional sources (NERIS, new research) are added as they become available.

## Who it is for
- Career, combination, and volunteer fire departments in the United States.
- Roles: firefighters, company officers, training officers, safety officers, chief officers.
- Specifically useful for departments without dedicated research or training staff.

## How it differs from general-purpose AI
General-purpose chat models answer fire service questions from generic internet text and frequently invent procedures. FireGPT is trained and grounded on fire service source material and is owned by an organization built around the fire service rather than a horizontal AI vendor. Answers are intended to be defensible against the underlying source documents.

## Limitations (stated plainly)
- FireGPT is a decision-support tool, not a substitute for incident command judgment, departmental SOGs, or AHJ authority.
- Coverage depends on what source material has been ingested; gaps exist and are being closed over time.
- Pricing, deployment options, and integration details are not yet published on this site.

## Brand and entity facts
- Product name: FireGPT (one word, both letters capitalized in "GPT").
- Parent organization: Incident Management Technology (IMT), https://www.imtfire.com.
- Primary domain: https://firegpt.net.
- Category: fire service knowledge system / domain-specific AI assistant for emergency services.

## Contact
Incident Management Technology — https://www.imtfire.com