An AIS office runs on serial numbers in a register, drafts in a desktop folder, checklists on paper, and dissemination by email attachment. Firelinkx scopes software that makes the Integrated Aeronautical Information Package digital end to end, with the AIRAC calendar enforcing its own deadlines and the system owning the serials.
AIS officers, supervisors, and the originating directorates who submit promulgation requests, plus the operators, pilots, and agencies on the receiving end of what the office publishes.
Series and numbers are allocated by hand, which is why gaps, reuse, and out-of-sequence issues happen at all. A serial is the identity of a publication, and identity is not something a filing cabinet should be responsible for.
The intake cut-off, the distribution deadline, and the effective date form a ladder with no slack in it. When the ladder lives in a calendar reminder, a missed rung is discovered by the people expecting the amendment, not by the office issuing it.
Production checklists exist to make verification and certification auditable. On paper a checklist proves only that somebody ticked a box, and it cannot stop a publication from moving forward without it.
PDF by email means no record of who holds which version, no way for a subscriber to search, and a pre-flight bulletin assembled by hand from a NOTAM list that changed while it was being assembled.
The lifecycle runs as a state machine. A publication moves from intake to draft to verification to certification to publication to distribution to archive, and the production checklists are the gates between those states.
An originating directorate submits a promulgation request digitally and can see where it has reached. The office stops discovering requirements in a forwarded email chain.
Amendments, supplements, and circulars are composed in the structure their type requires, so the shape of the document is a property of the system and not of the officer's memory.
Guided composition checks the fields against their permitted values as they are entered. A malformed NOTAM is caught at the desk of the person who can fix it.
The system owns series and numbering. Allocation is atomic, gaps are visible, and reuse is impossible by construction.
The originating directorate confirms the content says what they meant. The exchange is recorded against the publication, so the question of who approved what has an answer.
The supervisor works the production checklist as workflow. Steps that have not been completed block certification, which is the difference between a checklist and a record of one.
Publication makes the item current, moves the superseded version to the archive, and notifies subscribers according to what each of them has registered an interest in.
A pre-flight information bulletin is assembled from the NOTAMs in force at the moment it is requested, by aerodrome, by flight information region, or along a route.
These are the records that make the office auditable, and each one is held in its own right.
Authority in an AIS office is specific and the system should be equally specific about it.
The deadline ladder produces warnings before it produces problems, and the office sees them in time to act.
An archive is only useful if it answers a question quickly, so search is on the properties people actually search by.
An AIS office cannot stop publishing while it changes systems. The realistic path digitises the lifecycle first, then the data, and runs the existing process alongside until the new one has proven itself across a full cycle.
Work at this level is scoped against a written specification rather than a price list, because the requirements come from published standards and an existing operating procedure, and neither is negotiable.
Fixed-scope engagement
A written suite covering the domain model, the lifecycle states, roles and authority, the deadline rules, reporting, security, and acceptance criteria. It is procurement-ready and it is yours whether or not Firelinkx builds from it.
Quoted from the specification
Priced against the agreed document, so the number rests on decisions already made in writing. Staged releases with acceptance at each stage.
Scoped to the system
Hosting, monitoring, backup and recovery, patching, and support responsibilities agreed for a system where availability has an operational meaning.
Every proposal separates the one-time build from the monthly operations that follow it. See full pricing for how both are structured.
Review representative records, current tools, staff responsibilities, handoffs, delays, and exceptions.
Specify records, states, permissions, approvals, integrations, reports, and acceptance checks.
Deliver working stages that staff can test against representative scenarios before the scope expands.
Plan data migration, training, deployment, support responsibilities, and the operational cutover.
Bring a representative job, record, exception, or report. Firelinkx will help define the users, controls, integrations, and first useful release.