Built by firefighters, for firefighters.

Our Story

This problem found us first.

Bryce spent ten years on the frontline. He watched crews walk out of structure fires with no record of what they had just worked in. Incomplete combustion fills a room with carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds. None of it leaves a mark you can see once the smoke clears, and what it does tends to surface years later, long after the shift it came from. In 2022 the World Health Organization’s cancer agency classified occupational exposure as a firefighter as Group 1: carcinogenic to humans. Exposure, meanwhile, was tracked on paper and in people’s heads. Ask a department what one member had been exposed to over a year and there was no answer. Command had nothing to work from during the call, and a firefighter filing a claim a decade later had nothing on file. So we built the record. RespAI pairs a multi-gas sensor mounted on the self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) with software that totals VOC exposure while the incident is still running. It also reads carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, combustible gas, and oxygen for the acute hazards that need a call from command right then. Every reading is filed against the individual firefighter and stays auditable. Today it measures total VOC. An e-nose in development is meant to identify the carcinogens themselves. RespAI Inc. is a Canadian company, built in Newfoundland and Labrador, where our first pilot runs today.