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Search practical guidance for setup, animals, daily care, Housing, genetics, operations, imports, recovery, and team permissions. Each guide explains purpose, prerequisites, steps, expected results, safety boundaries, and troubleshooting.
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Getting started with Project Mad Adder
Choose a starting mode, create the organization, configure species and Housing, add animals, and enter the workspace without losing setup guidance.
Using the PMA Setup Centre
Resume setup, reopen skipped steps, review readiness, and distinguish recommendations from real blockers.
Creating accurate animal profiles
Add identity, species, sex, status, dates, Housing, feeding defaults, hazards, genetics, and lineage at the right level of certainty.
Using PMA Capture with voice and quick entry
Speak or type natural English care notes, let PMA propose structured records, and review every detected action before anything is saved.
Building Housing and facility structure
Create facilities, rooms, racks, stacks, enclosures, incubators, and operational Housing codes in a hierarchy PMA can reason about.
Recording genetics and lineage safely
Record morph display, structured genotype evidence, possible and proven het states, sire, dam, and uncertainty without inventing relationships.
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Getting started with Project Mad Adder
Choose a starting mode, create the organization, configure species and Housing, add animals, and enter the workspace without losing setup guidance.
Using the PMA Setup Centre
Resume setup, reopen skipped steps, review readiness, and distinguish recommendations from real blockers.
Creating accurate animal profiles
Add identity, species, sex, status, dates, Housing, feeding defaults, hazards, genetics, and lineage at the right level of certainty.
Recording daily care evidence
Log feeding, water, cleaning, sheds, waste, health, measurements, environment, and notes without claiming work that was not completed.
Using PMA Capture with voice and quick entry
Speak or type natural English care notes, let PMA propose structured records, and review every detected action before anything is saved.
Feeding records, defaults, and schedules
Configure feeding defaults, record offered and accepted meals, manage feeder inventory, and understand due-date calculations.
Building Housing and facility structure
Create facilities, rooms, racks, stacks, enclosures, incubators, and operational Housing codes in a hierarchy PMA can reason about.
Housing Templates & Setup Acceleration
Create governed templates, preview differences, protect verified settings, and generate Housing only after explicit review.
PMA Housing Blueprint
Plan Housing structures, zones, equipment, and hierarchy before operational records are created.
PMA Housing Setup
Define reusable operational setup profiles for equipment, environment, and maintenance coverage.
Facility & Capacity Intelligence
Review room capacity, reserved and quarantine space, maintenance concentration, growth scenarios, and proposed moves without changing live records.
PMA Spatial Canvas
Create measured floor-plan context and place operational structures on a controlled spatial model.
PMA Spatial Canvas Operations
Overlay occupancy, setup coverage, maintenance, equipment service, quarantine, and BioShield context on a measured canvas.
Spatial Routes, Biosecurity & Continuity
Create versioned Guided Round, sanitation, BioShield, Continuity, and emergency-reference routes on measured Spatial Blueprints.
Recording genetics and lineage safely
Record morph display, structured genotype evidence, possible and proven het states, sire, dam, and uncertainty without inventing relationships.
Genetics Results & Husbandry History
Choose percentage, fraction, odds, or all result formats and inspect per-locus Punnett evidence.
Building and running Guided Rounds
Turn recurring requirements into ordered operational work, confirm each action, and preserve accountable completion evidence.
PMA Round Intelligence & Scheduling
Plan recurring Rounds, review capacity and execution, and use the Guided Round Action Library.
PMA Daily Command
Review the day’s operational picture, urgent work, exceptions, assignments, and evidence without replacing human judgment.
Using BioShield and quarantine workflows
Record quarantine context, movement restrictions, sanitation boundaries, and collection-wide biosecurity evidence without making clinical claims.
PMA Passport Secure Handoff
Prepare bounded, revocable record handoffs and verify what recipients can view.
Importing existing data
Upload supported sources, map columns, normalize values, preserve historical dates, and stage records without early authoritative writes.
Resolving Import Review findings
Filter classifications, inspect duplicate evidence, choose create, update, skip, or manual review, and export rejected rows.
PMA Migration Bridge
Import recognized external exports through a review project while protecting source IDs and uncertain genetics.
PMA Vault — Complete Backup & Restore
Create verified archives, inspect recovery contents, preview restore effects, and use controlled recovery boundaries.
Reports, exports, and record portability
Generate operational reports, export CSV data, understand filters, and preserve portable evidence without treating a report as live truth.
Sales Orders, invoices, payments, and fulfillment
Create mixed sales orders, issue invoices, record partial or final payments and refunds, and keep financial state separate from physical fulfillment.
Purchase Orders, supplier bills, payments, and receiving
Order animals, feeders, supplies, or services; receive goods separately; and track supplier bills, payments, refunds, tax, shipping, and balances.
Relationship Commerce, receivables, and payables
Use one Relationship record to review sales, purchases, invoices, bills, payments, linked animals, balances, aging, and source records without duplicating contacts.
Team roles, permissions, and accountability
Understand owner, administrator, manager, keeper, and viewer boundaries before assigning access or operational responsibility.
Installing PMA and using mobile, offline sync, camera, QR, and notifications
Install the PMA PWA, understand cached and queued work, resolve synchronization failures, control personal alerts, and assess camera, QR, Capture, and Android-wrapper readiness.
Understanding PMA Keeper, Pro, beta, and complimentary access
Understand organization-level plans, personal account identity, access modes, measured allowances, and why paid billing remains disabled during beta.
Adding and managing animal profile images
Take or choose an animal photo, let PMA optimize profile and thumbnail variants, understand private storage and media quotas, and replace or remove images safely.
Plan limits, usage, and over-limit behavior
See how PMA counts active resources and optimized media storage, blocks only usage increases, revalidates imports and offline work, and keeps essential care available.
What happens to data after a downgrade
Preview scheduled plan changes and understand which records remain editable, visible, exportable, read-only, or paused without automatic deletion.
Organization ownership and billing-manager roles
Separate organization ownership, operational permissions, billing authority, and PMA platform administration without exposing private husbandry data.
Trials, upgrades, scheduled downgrades, and beta access
Understand trial timing, manual beta authorization, upgrade timing, scheduled changes, grace states, and commercial restrictions before live billing exists.
Joining the controlled PMA beta
Accept a single-use invitation, verify the approved email, understand beta cohorts, and complete setup without accidentally creating a second team workspace.
Contacting PMA support and sharing safe diagnostics
Create a support case, choose urgency, attach bounded evidence, review replies, and understand what diagnostic information PMA does and does not collect.
Exporting data and closing an account or organization
Distinguish personal exports, organization exports, account closure, organization closure, ownership transfer, recovery periods, and permanent deletion.
Account recovery, MFA, and signed-in device safety
Use password reset, email verification, authenticator MFA, recovery codes, session review, and controlled support assistance without exposing authentication secrets.
Performance and large collections
Understand bounded startup history, on-demand animal timelines, scale safeguards, and the information to capture when a large collection feels slow.
Beta cohorts and staged feature rollout
Understand why different testers may see different previews and why cohort or percentage rollout never overrides plan entitlements, permissions, or Control Vault authorization.
Evidence before assumptions
Guides distinguish recorded evidence, proposals, estimates, warnings, and confirmed work. PMA education never turns uncertainty into fact.
Current guidance
Guidance is maintained against the current PMA Beta experience so instructions stay focused on what users can do now.