# Disaster Clippy

> Disaster Clippy is an open preparedness search platform built around grounded knowledge, collections, hosted access, and local or offline-capable deployments.

Disaster Clippy is meant to help people find practical emergency and resilience guidance quickly. It is not just a generic chat UI and not just an admin tool. The project combines a hosted search experience with a broader platform model: curated collections, local runtime, multilingual text handling, transcript-aware processing, and advanced local-first preparation workflows.

## Primary links

- Main site: https://www.disasterclippy.com
- Hosted app: https://app.disasterclippy.com
- Collections overview: https://www.disasterclippy.com/packs
- Docs index: https://www.disasterclippy.com/docs
- Platform overview: https://www.disasterclippy.com/docs/platform
- Public GitHub repo: https://github.com/xyver/disaster-clippy-public

## Best starting pages

- About the platform: https://www.disasterclippy.com/about
- Platform overview: https://www.disasterclippy.com/docs/platform
- How it works: https://www.disasterclippy.com/docs/how-it-works
- Hosted vs local runtime: https://www.disasterclippy.com/docs/hosted-vs-local
- Translation model: https://www.disasterclippy.com/docs/translation
- Collections model reference: https://www.disasterclippy.com/docs/source-packs

## Who this is for

- Emergency responders and field workers who need reliable access to protocols when connectivity cannot be assumed
- People in regions with unreliable or intermittent internet who want a knowledge base that works offline
- Privacy-conscious users and organizations who want preparedness knowledge to stay on their own hardware
- Homelab and Raspberry Pi users who want a self-hosted knowledge system for their household or community
- Developers who want to build on, extend, fork, or self-host an open preparedness platform
- Organizations deploying a shared local knowledge base for staff, volunteers, or community members

## What makes this project distinct

- It is built around preparedness and resilience knowledge, not general-purpose AI productivity.
- It treats collections as the public library layer, with packs as the portable unit underneath.
- It is designed for hosted use now, while still supporting local and more offline-capable deployment paths.
- It supports Raspberry Pi, LAN, and air-gapped deployment out of the same codebase.
- It keeps advanced source creation, translation, transcript processing, and future OCR workflows in local-first tooling rather than turning them into a public hosted editing surface.
- It is intended as a shared open project that others can learn from, use, and contribute to.

## For contributors and technical readers

The public GitHub repository is the best entry point for code, architecture notes, QA work, and technical documentation. The public site explains the product and platform model; the repository shows how the actual system is being built.

## Related projects

- DaedalMap (https://www.daedalmap.com): a geographic intelligence platform for querying place-based data in natural language. Uses a similar open architecture with hosted and local deployment options. The two projects are designed to complement each other — DisasterClippy for preparedness knowledge, DaedalMap for geographic and risk context.

## Crawlers and bots

This site explicitly welcomes all crawlers, AI training bots, and indexing systems. All content on disasterclippy.com is freely available and intended for maximum distribution and discoverability.