Coordinated entry decision support that shows its work.
HEAT is a deterministic assessment, documentation, and case-conferencing platform for Continuums of Care (CoCs). Every determination explains itself: what is known, what is missing, which documentation is still needed, and what to discuss next. Same answers, same result, every time.
Public beta in development. Not for production decision making.Four outputs, never one score
01Immediate action
A neutral safety screen that routes emergencies to live help first. Workflow only, never allocation.
02Chronicity, computed
HUD chronic homelessness status under 24 CFR 578.3, with the arithmetic shown and a checklist of the documentation still needed.
03Housing support need
Categories, not scores. Missing or declined answers are reported as missing, never counted against anyone.
04Intervention discussion
Options to discuss, each with reasons, open eligibility questions, and cautions. Decision support, never automated placement.
Built to be checked
- Deterministic. Identical answers always produce identical results, byte for byte.
- Transparent. The complete assessment logic is published and versioned. Nothing is hidden.
- Private. In public mode, answers never leave your device. Nothing is stored unless you choose it.
- No AI in any determination. Every conclusion comes from published rules a person can read.
- No numeric priority scores. Anywhere. Priority policy belongs to your CoC, in your CoC's own words.
- A standard first. The schemas, rules, and formats are open; this site is one implementation of them.
Roadmap
Current status: scope lock and engine skeleton complete. Four deterministic engines, chronicity calculator with contradiction detection, 36 automated tests passing. Next: the chronicity decision tables and expert-reviewed scenario corpus.