Step 1 · Sign in (1 min)

1. Open ventor.fit on your phone or laptop.
2. Tap Sign in. Enter the email Vishal or Sapna invited.
3. You'll get a magic-link email — tap the link to log in. No password to remember.
4. First time only: pick a name + tap Save.

Step 2 · You land on War Room

War Room (the home tab) is everything you need at a glance — where Kabir is right now, any alerts, both vehicles, weather ahead, stop requests in flight.

• Scroll top to bottom. That's it. No hunting.
• Footer (always visible at the bottom): distance done, distance to go, average speed, TS progress.
• Red banner = something needs attention (vehicles too far apart, open alert).
• Quiet = everything's on plan.

Step 3 · Find your job tab

Step 4 · Set km + °C (for Indian crew)

1. Tap your avatar (top right corner).
2. Find Units toggle.
3. Tap once → switches the whole app to km + °C.

Step 5 · Use the ? button anytime

There's a ? icon next to your avatar at the top. Tap it on any screen and you'll see the help article that matches that page. Or tap the Ask AI tab and type a question in plain English — like 'what does the red banner mean'.

Glossary you'll see a lot

War Room is your situational awareness in one screen. Scroll top to bottom; do not lose time hunting for info.

Top header

• Race state pill — PRE / LIVE / FIN / CUTOFF.
• Elapsed clock — total time since the official RAAM start (Eastern Daylight Time, locked).
• Cutoff clock — countdown to the 288-hour solo cap.
• Alerts bell — current open alerts; tap to skim.

Body

• Separation banner (only when needed) — red if Follow ↔ Leapfrog vehicles drift more than 30 minutes apart.
• Position card — Kabir's current mile, current TS, current speed, age of last GPS fix.
• Alerts list — open compliance + race alerts, ranked by severity.
• Weather glance — temperature + wind component for next stretch.
• Stop request panel — see active stops + create new ones (15-min rule).

Footer

The bottom strip is fixed — distance done, distance to finish, average speed, TS progress, elapsed, target delta. It follows you on every screen so you never lose the basics.

Kabir's request: any unplanned stop must give him a 15-minute heads-up so he can plan effort, food, hydration, and bathroom around it. Mechanical or medical issues bypass this — they dispatch immediately.

How to file a request

1. Open War Room. Find the Stop requests panel.
2. Tap + Request stop.
3. Pick a reason chip — Loo, Food, Mech, Medical, Sleep, Media, Other.
4. Add an optional note (e.g. 'driver needs coffee, 5 km ahead').
5. Tap Send. The 15-minute counter starts. Mech + Medical chips dispatch instantly.

Lifecycle of a request

Two vehicles, one rule: stay within 30 minutes of each other at current speed. The app enforces this and flags drift in red on War Room.

Tracking from a crew phone

1. Open /vehicles on the on-duty crew phone.
2. Tap Track from this phone on the right vehicle (Follow-1 or Leap-1).
3. Allow location permission.
4. Pick the Driver and Navigator from the dropdowns.
5. Tap Start tracking. Pings post every 30 seconds while the tab is open.
6. Add to home screen for native-feel persistence.

If pings stop arriving

• Phone went to sleep — keep the tab visible, or use Add to Home Screen.
• Permission was revoked — re-allow in browser settings.
• No signal — pings buffer briefly then drop. Move to the next ridge.
• Vehicle marked inactive — only chief can reactivate via /admin/roster (coming soon).

Weather is fetched from Open-Meteo every 15 minutes for the rider position and the next six time stations. The app classifies wind into headwind / tailwind / crosswind based on the segment bearing — not the raw direction.

Wind component reading

Auto-action triggers

• Headwind > 15 km/h → WARN aero tuck + reduce 5%
• Temp > 35 °C → AMBER pre-cool + ice socks
• Temp < 7 °C → INFO stage warm layers in follow
• Precip > 2 mm → WARN rain shell + check tire grip

RAAM 2026 has 54 time stations. Each one is on the live map with a colored ring showing the section's rule constraint.

Section flag colors

Three WhatsApp groups: Main (chief + on-duty leads), Shift-1, Shift-2. The app syncs only with Main — shift groups stay informal.

RAAM live tracker scraper writes to /leaderboard every 30 s once race starts. Pre-race it shows a seeded plausible Solo Men <50 lineup so the UI isn't empty.

Filter chips

Reading the row

• Crown = leader. Orange highlight = Kabir.
• Gap to leader is always negative (-X km behind).
• Gap to Kabir is signed — red = behind Kabir, green = ahead.
• Status pill: pre / racing / finished / dnf / dq.
• Last ping = how recent the RAAM tracker updated this racer.

Open /bikes for the full fleet view. Each bike has a use-case so the crew knows which one to hand off when.

Manuals

• Per-bike Scott manual — open from the bike card on /bikes.
• Shimano Di2 dealer manual — shared across all bikes, in the Shared manuals section.
• Pair with the Shimano E-TUBE Project Cyclist app for shift-mode tuning.

Open /crew, scroll past the tracker. Skill matrix grid has rows = crew, columns = 12 skills (mech / driving / ops).

Two-stage attestation

1. Self-attest: you tap the sky-blue circle for any skill you can do.
2. Chief-verify: Kabir or Sapna tap the green shield after seeing you do it in Oceanside training.

Coverage badges

Units

Avatar menu → Units. Toggle imperial (mi, °F) ↔ metric (km, °C). The whole app converts at display time. RAAM data + GPX stay in imperial under the hood.

Theme

Top bar moon/sun icon. Dark by default, with auto night mode 19:00–07:00 that deepens contrast for in-car readability.

Sign out / switch team

Avatar menu shows your team. If you belong to more than one, switch from there. Sign out clears the session.

The SOS button is in the top bar (red). Tapping it:

1. Records who pressed it + their last GPS
2. Inserts a CRITICAL alert in the timeline
3. Mirrors to Discord (RAAM HQ visible) and to the comms log
4. Opens a confirm-or-cancel modal — you have 5 seconds to back out

After firing, the chief follows the SOS SOP: dial 911 (US) or local emergency, mark rider position, set up safe zone, log resolution in the alert when done.

Open /pre-race. The checklist is grouped by category and tracks 4 states: Open → In progress → Done → N/A. Cycle by tapping the icon on each row.

Workflow

1. Skim all 23 items the day you sign in.
2. Set anything you're personally responsible for to In progress.
3. Mark Done as you complete in Oceanside.
4. Mark N/A for items that don't apply (e.g. RV stuff if you have no RV).

Print the handbook glove-box copy

Open /handbook → browser Save as PDF or hit Print. The Race Documents section at the end has all the official RAAM PDFs (route book, rules, GEAR book, pre-race clearance, team duties). Carry in every vehicle.

Avatar menu → Notifications → tap Enable push alerts. Your browser asks permission, then the app subscribes.

What you get pinged for

• MECH · STOP NOW — fast-path mechanical stop request fired.
• MEDICAL · STOP NOW — fast-path medical stop request fired.

Non-emergency stops (loo, food, sleep, media, other) do NOT push — they appear in War Room with the 15-minute countdown.

Phone-specific

I can't see any data

Pre-race, most screens are empty by design — they fill in once GPS pings + log entries start. If you're mid-race and screens are blank: log out, log in, check Supabase status with the chief.

Vehicle pings stopped

Phone went to sleep, permission revoked, or signal dropped. Open /track/<id> on the on-duty crew phone, re-grant location, tap Start.

Wrong units

Avatar → Units → Switch. Affects the whole app instantly.

Can't sign in

Magic-link expires after 1 hour. Request a new one from /login. If still stuck, ask the chief to re-issue your invite.

Stop request stuck on pending

The countdown shows 'ready' once the 15 min are up — that's the cue for the crew to actually pull over. Tap → on the row to mark dispatched. If the rider declined, tap × to cancel.