OPENFIREFLY
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BLUELOOP RESEARCH PROGRAM · M0 / 2026

Breathe underwater.
Rebuilt from first principles.

OpenFirefly is exploring a more compact, diagnosable closed-circuit life-support platform for trained professionals. We begin with evidence, simulation, and non-human bench testing.

See our method Safety before spectacle

Research-stage program. No certified product. Not for human use.

00 human trials in M0
90 days to a go / pivot / stop decision
A→D visible evidence grades for every claim
01 THE PROGRAM

Not a smaller box.
A clearer system.

Closed-circuit systems already make long, quiet underwater work possible. The hard part is not adding more intelligence. It is making limits visible, failures diagnosable, and every safety claim traceable.

BlueLoop is our internal R&D program. OpenFirefly is the public research brand.

01

NOW · M0

Evidence

Mission budgets, failure injection, test traceability, and a shared language for engineering decisions.

02

CANDIDATE

Guardian

A possible diagnostic and logging layer—only if users and regulators confirm independent value.

03

LONG TERM

CCR

A complete compact platform. It remains behind independent labs, certification, insurance, and human-safety gates.

02 HOW WE WORK

Evidence
before hardware.

We do not begin with an industrial-design promise. We begin with a mission profile, a physical budget, a hazard log, and a way to stop.

  1. 01

    Bound the mission

    Depth, temperature, workload, duration, gas, training, and escape are one system.

  2. 02

    Model the physics

    Oxygen, carbon dioxide, absorbent, flow resistance, mass, volume, energy, and uncertainty.

  3. 03

    Inject failure

    Sensor disagreement, power loss, valve failure, flooding, assembly error, and common causes.

  4. 04

    Earn the next gate

    Independent review decides whether we proceed, redesign, pivot, or stop.

03 NON-NEGOTIABLE

Life support is not a demo.

M0 contains no wearable prototype, no mouthpiece breathing, no pool test, and no open-water test. AI may support research and offline analysis; it will not be a single point of failure or the final safety authority.

  • No performance claim without a task boundary and source.
  • No new oxygen or CO₂ chemistry as a first-product dependency.
  • No human phase without independent engineering, medical, ethics, insurance, and regulatory approval.
If safety and lightness conflict, safety wins.
04 CURRENT FIELD NOTE

05 / 08 / 2026

M0 is active.

The first 90 days are for technical baselines, compliance mapping, professional interviews, and non-human bench specifications. The output is a decision—not a launch date.

Sprint 0 · factual baseline01 / 06
05 DESIGN PARTNERS

Built with people
who already work underwater.

We are preparing structured conversations with experienced CCR users, underwater filmmakers, research diving teams, life-support engineers, test laboratories, and certification specialists.