What is the name of your organization?
Florida International University ATOM Think Tank
What is the name of your solution?
CivixAI
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
CivixAI is a multi-agent AI system designed to support strategic action planning for local communities
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Miami, FL, USA
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
United States
What type of organization is your solution team?
Nonprofit
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What specific problem are you solving?
A community is a self-organized group of people living in the same place that get together to improve economic vitality, education, well-being, and overall quality of life. Community building requires entrepreneurial thought and action guided by strategic thinking. Yet, these local communities are resource constrained and lack strategic planning expertise.
The key challenge we identified lies in fostering Learning Driven Communities. Communities don't consider organizational learning a key priority. Too often, communities “reinvent the wheel” by launching projects without leveraging existing knowledge. Moreover, communities often fail to define clear and compelling learning goals, goals that clearly advance mission. Without clear learning goals and associated metrics, it becomes that much harder to effectively deploy knowledge resources, track progress, and influence behaviors across the community.
Communities can learn from their experience and from initiatives and insights from other communities and become more engaged on discovery driven planning and experimentation
What is your solution?
CivixAi is an AI-powered platform that supports strategic action planning for communities. CivixAI is both a thinking partner and strategy accelerator for communities. Acting as a planning facilitator, it helps conduct strategic assessments, define goals, and align stakeholders. CivixAi provides insights to shape strategic initiatives, identify critical resources, or envision long-term goals, aiming to improve economic vitality, education, well-being, and overall quality of life.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
We partnered with Communities of Excellence 2026 (COE) a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that hosts a national learning collaborative of 26 communities across the US. The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 authorized “Community” becoming the seventh category of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards.
The communities range from small rural regions of 5000-10,000 people, cities, suburban areas, and urban regions as large as 500,000 people.
As a pilot we worked with two self-organized communities, South San Diego (SSD) in California serving a population of 496,000 and the community excellence group (CEG) of Excelsior Springs (ES), Missouri - known as Thrive Excelsior, serving a population of 15,000. The communities address different local problems, in SSD high homeless rate, increased behavioral and mental health rates in the areas of suicide and opioid overdose, food insecurity (rate of 28%), and shortage of housing for renters and homebuyers. In ES the main problems are high chronic disease diagnostic rates, access to local job opportunities and affordable local housing for workforce.
