Urgency across different conditions.
The earthquakes in Venezuela renewed my urgency to help households prepare across different institutions, infrastructure, language, and connectivity.
A local prototype in progress
Earthquakes that matter to your circle.
Check in when one happens. Practice together before the next. Ready Together explores how households can turn preparedness guidance into a shared, repeatable practice.
Ready Together is not an earthquake alert, early-warning, or emergency-response service.
Local prototype · Downloads are not available yet.
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LOCAL PROTOTYPE
OUR WORKING BELIEF
Knowing what to do is not enough. Everyone needs to practice it.
Why this, why now
Two seismic moments made the missing layer visible.
One renewed the human urgency. The other clarified the product boundary. Neither is evidence that Ready Together already works.
Official facts are not household coordination.
After a magnitude 7.4 earthquake near San José del Palmar, the official facts were available. They still could not answer how one private circle would respond together.
Useful tools exist—just not in one shared practice.
Earthquake apps inform. Chats communicate. Guides teach. Written plans record intent. None normally coordinates a short multi-device household practice and reveals what remains unresolved.
Real earthquakes provide context, never conversion pressure. Ready Together does not claim it could have prevented harm.
Designed for a circle, not a crowd
Preparedness becomes useful when it is shared.
Protocols change by location. Preparedness always starts at home. These are the three product questions the prototype is testing.
Notice what matters
Connect reported earthquakes with the broad areas your circle chooses—without turning the app into an alert system.
Check in with context
Keep event-scoped responses focused on the people and responsibilities your circle already understands.
Practice before the next one
Run a shared drill, compare what happened, and carry one concrete improvement into the next practice.
Evidence before adjectives
Built in public, without pretending the work is finished.
Ready Together is a Kotlin Multiplatform local prototype. Android and iOS interfaces exist; automated coverage supports the shared-practice flow. The final physical Android–iPhone validation gate remains open.
- Public earthquake feed
- Bounded, read-only service
- Private circle and check-in
- Not publicly deployed
- Android–iPhone shared drill
- Physical Gate A still open
- App stores
- Not released
Field notes
The decisions behind the prototype.
Founder context, architecture, and workflow—separated from claims the evidence cannot support.
FOUNDER NOTE · LOCAL PROTOTYPE
From Sismos México to Ready Together
How Sismos México, Venezuela, Colombia, and a missing coordination layer shaped the product question.
Read the founder story →PLANNED TECHNICAL NOTEWhy Ready Together uses Kotlin Multiplatform
The shared domain, the native boundaries, and why architecture supports the product question.
View the outline →PLANNED PROCESS NOTEHow we use specs, RFCs, and ADRs
A repository-first workflow designed to keep agents, implementation, and public claims aligned.
View the outline →One honest question
What responsibility would your household still need to clarify before practicing together?
Feedback should test the problem, not flatter the solution.