Labs · Adam Honoré

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A step-by-step coach for getting into a Colorado fire department: openings as they're posted, what each department requires, and one small step at a time.

A private coach for a firefighter candidate in Colorado. AgentCore Web Search watches fire department hiring pages, testing networks and job boards, from the Front Range to mountain resort districts; a model reads each posting against the candidate's timeline and turns the plan into a few small steps a week.

How this was built

Getting into a paid fire department in Colorado is a numbers game played on a short clock. One recent Colorado Springs Fire academy drew about 1,000 applicants for 26 seats. Departments open recruitment only when they announce an academy, the windows close within weeks, and each one asks for current written and physical test scores, an EMT certification, or a minimum age. Missing a window can mean waiting a year.

This lab keeps track of all of it. Every three days, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Web Search reads the hiring pages of more than 30 sources: Front Range departments, paid mountain departments from Summit County and Vail to Steamboat, Telluride and Durango, the National Testing Network, two Colorado firefighter job boards and the bridge-job programs. A model decides which pages announce a window, an academy, a test date or a requirement, and reads each against the candidate's age, certifications and graduation date.

A long plan is easy to ignore, so the coach breaks it into a few small steps a week and shows one at a time. It also keeps a simple record of study sessions. The coaching sits behind an access code; every opening links to the agency page it came from, and dates should be confirmed there before acting.

Coaching a candidate toward a Colorado fire department, November 2026. Runs on Mistral Large 3 in Amazon Bedrock.

A personal project, built on a personal AWS account using personal equipment. Not affiliated with my employer.

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