About OpenAir Atlantic
OpenAir Atlantic is a free, mobile-first environmental intelligence app for Prince Edward Island — and the first step toward a tool that covers all four Atlantic provinces.
The problem we solve
The Weather Network gives you icons. Google gives you a forecast. Environment Canada has real data but buries it in a 1998-era interface. None of them answer the actual question: should I go to Cavendish Beach right now, and how long do I have before the rain hits?
OpenAir pulls live data from Environment Canada, Fisheries & Oceans Canada, and ocean buoys — then runs it through an AI meteorologist trained to speak like a local, not a textbook. The result is one clear answer per location, in plain English.
The vision
The same codebase that powers OpenAir PEI is built to scale to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland & Labrador. Each province gets its own location layer, data sources, and local knowledge — but the same AI interpretation engine underneath.
Our goal is to make outdoor intelligence free and accessible for every person in Atlantic Canada — residents, tourists, farmers, fishers, and anyone who needs to make a decision based on what the sky is doing right now.
How it works
01
We pull real-time weather, air quality, radar, tides, and water temperature from free Canadian government APIs — Environment Canada, Fisheries & Oceans, and ocean buoy networks. No paywalls. No third-party data brokers.
02
A Claude AI model reads the raw numbers and writes a plain-English assessment for each location — what conditions mean for swimmers, cyclists, hikers, drivers, and anyone with asthma or young kids.
03
Every location gets a score (Excellent / Good / Fair / Stay Inside), a headline, a time window, and specific activity guidance. You know what to do in under 10 seconds.
Data & transparency
All environmental data comes from Canadian federal government sources — free, public, and updated in near-real time. We do not sell data, we do not profile users, and we do not require an account to use the app.
