Sparky looks things up across every module, reads the files and paperwork you hand it, and gets the changes ready — then waits for you to press Confirm.
Morning, Captain. Three things are waiting on you:
Six members signed in to Saturday’s Ladder Drill. Their awards are ready.
Here’s a draft from SOP-14 (6 pages), cut down to what a crew needs to read on a phone.
Same job, two ways: credit everyone who came to Saturday’s drill.
Dozens of clicks. One typo and someone’s short.
One sentence. One Confirm. Every name checked against the sign-in sheet.
It isn’t only in the chat. Sparky works inside the modules where the tedious work lives.
Print an information request, let members fill it in by hand, and photograph the pages. Sparky reads the handwriting into one answer per question.
Sparky reads the answers, the documents and the references’ replies, scores the application against your hub out of 100, and suggests what to ask in the interview.
It’s advice: the decision is yours.
When an inspection starts, Sparky writes a short brief: what the business is, how its past inspections went, and what usually gets written up at places like it.
It has failed 2 of its 4 past inspections, and the hood suppression tag keeps coming up.
Attach, paste or drop up to three files at a time. Sparky keeps earlier ones in mind as the chat goes on, so “compare it with the first photo” just works.
4 of the 11 people on the sheet aren’t in Personnel yet: Dana Cruz, Eli Park, Nora Hill and Ben Shaw.
Sparky doesn’t guess from a manual. It goes and looks, as many times as the question needs.
In plain words, from any page — with a photo, PDF or spreadsheet if you have one.
Several records at once, across modules, through the same pages you use — and you watch each one as it runs.
An answer with links to the right page, or a card listing exactly what will change.
One press runs it, and the change goes into your department’s activity log.
Every look-up and every change goes through the module’s own checks as the member who asked — so the portal itself decides what Sparky may see and do, never the AI.
The rules that keep an AI out of trouble in a fire department are built into the portal, not left to the model.
Sparky works with the member’s own permissions. Turning it on never gives anyone new access.
Every change is a card you read first. An unconfirmed card expires, and a confirmed one can’t run twice.
Confirmed actions are written to the activity log, and every chat is kept in the member’s history.
Choose who can use Sparky and which modules it works in. Anything you switch off, it leaves alone.
Settings → Sparky AI: who can open it, and which areas it can work in.
| On | Capability | What it can do | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portal guidance & navigation | Answers how-to questions and links to the right page. | ||
| Personnel invitations | Creates accounts and sends sign-in instructions. | High impact | |
| Announcements | Drafts, edits, publishes and sends reminders. | ||
| Scheduling & calendar | Shifts, time off, trades, pickups, approvals and events. | ||
| Training | Records, compliance, events and attendance. |
| Personnel profile editing | Prepares changes to names, emails, stations and fields. | High impact | |
| Roles & permissions | Assigns roles and changes role permissions. | ||
| Email to members | Sends real email to members and roles. | High impact | |
| Time Clock | Looks up and manages entries, jobs and the kiosk. | ||
| Credits | Goals, entries, requests, awards and reports. | ||
| Quartermaster | Inventory, requests, assignments and stock. | ||
| Asset Tables | Tables, records and bulk imports. | ||
| Corrections | Sends corrections and notices to members. | High impact | |
| Tickets & support | Submits, answers, assigns and updates tickets. | ||
| Resources & Drive | Finds documents and files; manages drafts and sharing. | ||
| Checklists & inspections | What’s due, alerts and inspections. Never logs a check. | ||
| Meet & chat | Schedules meetings and sends chat messages. | ||
| Surveys & courses | Builds surveys and courses and reads results. Never answers one. | ||
| Onboarding | Starts programs and tracks people’s progress. | ||
| Recruiting | Stages, reviewers, interviews and notes. Never votes or decides. | ||
| HR Info (read only) | Reads the HR records a member may already open. | High impact | |
| Incidents, payroll & other records | Report status, pay calendars, TIFMAS, budget. Mostly read only. | ||
| Integrations guidance | Explains integrations and their setup. Guidance only. | ||
| Station Board guidance | Explains boards and their controls. Guidance only. |
See Sparky work through a sample department on a live demo — the briefings, the paperwork, and the Confirm button.