What we commit to.

Public by default

Contributed knowledge stays free to read and search. Permanently. No paywall, no login gate, no bait-and-switch. The record belongs to the trade.

The source stays attached

Every answer, every field note, every story carries the name of the person who contributed it. Credit is structural, not decorative. If your experience is on this site, your name is on it.

Plurality over oracle

Several named answers, not one anonymous verdict. Disagreement is signal. The field does not agree on everything, and that is where the learning is.

Safety boundary

r717.ai is not an emergency service. If an incident is active, follow your facility EAP and call your emergency contractor. Active emergencies are never routed to the crowd.

Independence

Derive Software funds r717.ai and stewards the commons. iPSM does not control what publishes here. Derive may build commercial tools from the public record, but the public knowledge remains free and contributors remain named. The commercial use does not turn the commons into marketing.