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FAQ: The Hero Awards' AI-Powered Protocol for UN Sustainability Goals
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The Hero Awards' new AI workflow offers participants a competitive edge by developing practical solutions for UN goals, potentially leading to media recognition, startup opportunities, and award-conferring privileges.
The Hero Awards' seven-step workflow sequentially processes each UN SDG target through seven AI models, refining outputs with verification steps to create actionable plans in about three hours.
This initiative democratizes planetary stewardship by helping everyday people create practical solutions for global challenges, making meaningful change feel achievable and personally meaningful.
The Hero Awards uses a chain of seven AI models including ChatGPT and Claude to transform UN goals into evolving action plans, with Substack writers as first testers.
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The Hero Awards has created a guided, seven-step AI workflow designed to help everyday changemakers convert each of the UN's 169 Sustainable Development Goal targets into credible, practical action plans in about three hours, making meaningful progress toward sustainability goals more accessible.
The Hero Awards organization is led by CIO John Toomey, Education Director Amy Chang, and Sustainability Director Savithri Patel. The first participants to test the entire system are successful Substack writers, who were also the largest source of new insightful project participants in 2025.
The workflow begins by 'priming' each AI system with heavily tested prompts to focus on generating actionable solutions, then each model extends and refines the prior model's work—adding specificity, clarity, and verification steps as proposals progress through seven AI systems in sequence.
The current sequence uses: Meta.ai, Claude Code, Copilot.microsoft.com, Gemini.google.com v.3, Perplexity.ai, Deepseek.com, and ChatGPT (v.5.2), with one SDG target progressing through all seven systems to strengthen and stress-test the plan.
Participants receive a GPT listed on OpenAI's GPT store, a continuously refreshed Innovation Engine built with Google's NotebookLM, and starting in 2026, a group collaboration and mind mapping tool based in Microsoft Loop—creating 169 robust solution-evolvers that keep generating new approaches over time.
Winners are featured across The Hero Awards' social channels, blogs, websites, and press announcements; completed solutions are archived on their Academia.edu page for others to review and improve; and awardees receive the unique privilege of conferring the honor upon others who complete the protocol.
In a 2022 preliminary project, for every 100 completed procedures: 29 participants produced content that gained traction in traditional media, 14 were quoted in academic/professional journals, 7 launched an NGO/non-profit connected to their chosen Target, and 5 founded a startup.
The workflow develops participants' analytical and creative abilities by exposing them to different AI 'personalities' with varying strengths and blind spots, accelerating their own skills while improving the final deliverable through iteration across all seven models.
According to Sustainability Director Savithri Patel, 'Be the Singularity' means epitomizing the moment when AI begins to outperform human intelligence, achieved through a process that blends human judgment with AI to make ideas more grounded, practical, and less vulnerable to hallucinations.
The initiative was announced on January 15, 2026, and starting in 2026, participants will receive a group collaboration and mind mapping tool based in Microsoft Loop as part of their outputs.
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