On The Edge

Preppr.ai has been selected as one of 30 semi-finalists from 150 global applicants for the QBE AcceliCITY Humanitarian Challenge, a competition addressing the fivefold increase in climate-related disasters since 1970. Over the next six months, we'll work alongside Australian Red Cross partners and communities to pilot Preppr Collaborate—our collective intelligence AI technology that enables organizations to surface vulnerabilities and dependencies in minutes rather than weeks. This is an opportunity to bring our mission of democratizing disaster preparedness to communities on the front lines of climate disasters worldwide.

The arrival of powerful, general-purpose AI assistants like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini has fundamentally changed content creation. With enough skill, users can write detailed prompts to generate high-quality text, analysis, and ideas. This has led many to assume that any specialized AI task can be duplicated with a sufficiently talented "prompt engineer." However, this viewpoint misses the crucial architectural difference between a flexible tool and a purpose-built system.

No tricks, just treats this October 🎃 We've launched something transformative and shared our insights with the broader preparedness community, detailing how we solved a critical alert problem (and yes, we made the solution free for everyone).

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Preppr.ai has released its "Ask Preppr Action: Preparedness Alert & Warning Template Generation" protocol, a sophisticated, multi-agent system that runs in Large Language Models to help public safety officials create effective and compliant emergency alerts. The tool guides users through a structured, research-based workflow to generate templates for various platforms while enforcing FEMA/IPAWS standards and ethical guidelines. Arguing that life-saving tools should be widely accessible, the company is making the protocol freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) license to foster greater accessibility, innovation, and transparency in the emergency management community.

Like many in emergency management and business continuity, I saw AI as a productivity boost—extracting details from plans, generating scenarios, drafting reports. The tool worked great. But I was solving the wrong problem. We don't have a content creation problem in EM/BC. We create plenty of plans and reports. Our real challenges are deeper: coordination failures, engagement gaps, and tacit knowledge trapped in silos.