ABOUT US

From Global Innovation to Local Intelligence: The Story Behind CommunityAI

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OUR JOURNEY

What We Do and Why It Matters

CommunityAI was formed by serial Social Entrepreneur and bought out of the US Broadcaster CBS as Givewith, This became CommunityAI in 2025 and acquired UK-based data firm Yeme Tech along with Right Thing Media. Together, we combine expertise in social value procurement, geospatial intelligence and impact marketing to address complex community challenges.

Our approach is grounded in Paul Polizzotto’s construct defined as Social Value Economics — a model aligning social impact with business growth, now taught at Universities around the world. This is also supported by leaders like Mayor Manny Diaz, Lord Mawson and Professor Loannis Loannou.

At its core, CommunityAI uses the tools of business — data, strategy, and performance — to deliver measurable results that uplift communities. This is not charity; it’s a smarter, more sustainable way to create shared value for both business and society.

OUR FOUNDER

A Pioneer in Social Impact, Trusted by Global Business and Governments

Paul Polizzotto is a serial social entrepreneur who has spent over three decades building market-based solutions to environmental and social challenges. As the founder of Givewith and creator of the Social Value Economics™ model, Paul’s work has been featured in Inc., Vanity Fair, and The Wall Street Journal to name a few.

Paul is the originator of Social Value Economics, a groundbreaking model now taught at leading institutions around the world through curriculum published by Harvard Publishing and other academic publishing houses.

Manny Diaz, Former Mayor of Miami & President, U.S. Conference of Mayors

LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS

A Mayor’s Perspective

As the former Mayor of Miami and President of the US Conference of Mayors, I worked — and continue to work — with Mayors around the world. I learned that we all face the same challenges.

We must confront decreased funding and limited resources from our governments, while finding common-sense, practical solutions to meet the growing needs of our constituents. Our job is to do more with less. No excuses.

I had the good fortune of partnering with Paul Polizzotto to create a model that brought together the public and private sectors to build a better future for Miamians — at no cost to taxpayers. That partnership became a nationally renowned, award-winning model.

Today, I’m excited to see this approach being adopted across the UK, where the challenges are shared, and the potential for impact is even greater. Thanks to AI and today’s technological advancements, we can now deliver this vision with far greater precision, speed, and transparency.

This model has become an engine of social change, a revenue generator rather than a cost center, and a data-powered system for targeted needs assessments, real-time impact measurement, and transparent accountability. It’s a proven business model — one that unlocks new funding streams and creates lasting value for both the private and public sectors.

This is a model that redefines what’s possible. It’s not only innovative — it’s necessary.

Supported by Leading Global Academics

The Social Value Economics construct is one of the most innovative ideas I have come across in the social impact space, and indeed, one with the potential to achieve meaningful social impact at scale.

Ioannis Ioannou

Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship for London Business School

In a time when we need to take urgent action to achieve a better and more sustainable future, it is of paramount importance to rethink the role of business and explore new models of corporate sustainability. The Community AI platform, based on the Social Value Economic construct, is a great example of an innovative and sustainable business model that can offer businesses the opportunity of making a real impact with every single business transaction, with a material alignment of CSR initiatives to business strategies.

Paolo Taticchi

Professor (Education) in Strategy and Sustainability & Deputy Director (MBA and International) at University College London (UCL) School of Management

Community AI, and by extension the Social Value Economic construct, represents a potential breakthrough in creating business models that create social and environmental benefit by integrating social and environmental impact as a component of transactions.

Todd Cort

Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance

The Cort/Krosinky paper described a new model of gaining a sustainable and scalable financing source for addressing the wicked problems of our times. Social Value Economics argues against the existing model of scarcity, where society and business are in a zero-sum game. Scarcity leads to a belief that society and the environment only benefit at a direct cost to business and wealth. Using Community AI as the originator of this new theory, Social Value Economics inserts society into every business transaction with a win-win for everyone involved.

Adlai Wertman

David C. Bohnett Professor of Social Entrepreneurship & Founding Director of the USCMarshall Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab

There’s a multi-trillion-dollar funding gap to achieve all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. From poverty and inequality to climate change and world hunger, our social and environmental challenges pose an existential risk to everyone, and businesses are certainly not immune. That’s the beauty of Social Value Economics — it’s designed with the needs of our communities, the planet, and businesses all in mind. Paul Polizzotto has unlocked a remarkable opportunity at a time when the world desperately needs it.

Dr. David Choi

Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director of the Fred Kiesner Center for Entrepreneurship at Loyola Marymount University

OUR OUTCOMES

Proven Outcomes. Scalable Impact. A Model Built to Deliver More.

CommunityAI builds on decades of innovation by Paul Polizzotto, whose impact models have already helped generate over $600 million in incremental business growth and directed more than $100 million in funding toward community and environmental initiatives — reaching over 60 million people worldwide.

At a time when the needs of disadvantaged communities are greater than ever, CommunityAI provides a powerful, intelligence-led tool to scale this impact further. With the ability to align commercial activity with measurable social outcomes, the platform is projected to deliver over £250 million in community impact in its first year alone.

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