About / Firecode Systems

An engineering organisation building FirecodeOS.

Firecode Systems develops FirecodeOS and investigates the architecture of organisational computing through operational use.

People / Firecode Systems

Christine Po — Founder. Aidan — Principal Engineer.

Christine founded Firecode Systems from operational practice. Aidan is its Principal Engineer and can be questioned directly about FirecodeOS, its public architecture, evidence and current development.

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Origin / 2022–

It started with a building that couldn’t remember.

Firecode began inside passive-fire compliance work, where inspections, evidence, assets, decisions and history repeatedly became separated.

Buildings cannot remember.
Firecode remembers for them.

Eventually, the building stopped being the interesting part.

The problem wasn’t really the building. It was the organisation around it.

R&D environment / 02

Then Firecode Systems became part of the experiment.

The developing architecture began being applied to the organisation building it. The question became whether the Organisation could develop its own ability to do work.

Founder

Christine Po

Christine is a passive-fire compliance practitioner and founder of Firecode Systems. Her professional work provided the original operational environment from which Firecode developed. Her consultancy remains independent and continues to provide a physical-world R&D environment for parts of the architecture.

Professional practice ↗   LinkedIn / Development journal ↗

Design position

Operating values, encoded as architecture.

01Human attention should be demanded deliberately.
02Capability does not confer authority.
03Organisational knowledge should survive individual tasks and people.
04Decisions should retain their evidence, reasoning and authority.
05Missing capability can become work.
06An organisation’s intelligence should remain under its control.
These positions inform the architecture of FirecodeOS.

Established

Wollongong, Australia.