Ammonia field knowledge · attributed
Thirty years of experience leaves with every retirement.
r717.ai is the ammonia refrigeration field’s permanent, named record—free to read, built by the people who run the equipment, with the credit staying where it belongs.
Follow the build
The founding roster starts here.
Contribution opens once contributor protections are in place. One email gets you first word when it does—before the wider industry hears about it.
First word when the field opens for contribution.
Your address is used for this and nothing else. Read the privacy policy
Four surfaces
What the commons holds.
Each surface is in active development. Preview what they will look like and how they work.
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Answer the field.
Questions will route to responders by the equipment they actually know. Every answer will carry the responder's name.
Preview - 02
Record the detail.
Field notes will go on the permanent record under your name. The detail that solved it stays useful.
Preview - 03
Read the field.
Named answers from people who have done the work. Disagreement is signal, not noise.
Preview - 04
Meet the field.
A track record that follows you, not your employer. Portable, named, and yours.
Preview
Why .ai?
AI is coming to this trade. The field sets the terms.
General-purpose AI can repeat a standard. It cannot replace the judgment earned in engine rooms—and it does not get to borrow that judgment with the name stripped off. Whatever gets built for this industry next should stand on the field’s own attributed record.
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Field experience
The judgment earned in engine rooms, callouts and PSM implementation.
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Named record
Several answers, equipment context and a source willing to stand behind each one.
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Domain memory
Tools may read the record only as it is: free, attributed, every name still attached.
The goal is not to make AI the expert. It is to help AI support experts without pretending to replace them.
Read the founding essayRoadmap
What’s coming.
The publication goes first. The roster makes the number useful. The line opens only when the safety path is ready. All of it compounds into a record that works for the people who built it.
Live now
R717 Day · July 17, 2026
Put the argument on record.
The founding essays, the principles this place is held to, and the start of the founding roster. The commons states its terms in public before it asks anyone for their knowledge.
- Essays
- Principles
- Founding roster
Next
When contributor protections are in place
Open the record.
Field notes under your name. Claimable profiles. Question threads. Contribution opens once the legal protections for contributors are reviewed and published — not before.
- Field notes
- Profiles
- Threads
Then
After carrier approval and the safety gate
Turn on the number.
Questions pass through a human safety gate, then reach the operators and technicians who know that equipment. No broadcast list. No anonymous answers.
- Safety gate
- Routed fanout
- Named answers
After
Once there is a record worth exporting
Let the record travel.
Training programs, facility software and AI tools can draw on the public record — with every contributor's name still attached. Knowledge stays free. Credit survives the handoff.
- Open export
- Names attached
- Free to read
The long game
As the record compounds
Turn standing into leverage.
Named contributions compound into standing the industry can see — proof of what you know that follows you, not your employer. The commons exists to hand that leverage to the people who keep these systems running.
- Portable standing
- Work signal
- Named authority
No deadline gets to overrule the safety gate.
See how the commons worksr717.ai is stewarded by Derive Software. Contributed knowledge remains public and attributed.