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.

September is National Preparedness Month—and Preppr is committed to empowering communities to prepare smarter, not harder. Learn how we're transforming preparedness from a compliance burden into an accessible, actionable practice for agencies of all sizes.

This isn't just a critique; it's a cautionary tale from someone who has ridden the AI hype cycle from its breathtaking peak to its disillusioning valley. Before our field repeats the same mistakes we made with the internet—embracing a powerful tool while ignoring its capacity to create cascading crises—we must look at the forgotten history of our last technological revolution. This is a call for wise, responsible adoption, not a blind leap of faith from a summit of overconfidence.