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🦺 CrisisCopilot – Your AI Agent for Personal Emergency Management

This is a submission for the Runner H "AI Agent Prompting" Challenge

🧠 Problem

When you're hit with a personal emergency—like a medical crisis, travel delay, sudden job loss, or family issue—your brain goes into survival mode. It becomes difficult to think clearly, prioritize, or remember critical tasks. Often, people don’t know who to contact, what to do next, or how to coordinate their life while navigating a stressful situation.

There’s no single system that calmly takes over, executes key coordination steps, and lets you focus on what matters most: your well-being.

💡 Solution

CrisisCopilot is a Runner H agent that helps you handle personal emergencies with clarity and control. It automates coordination, communication, documentation, and scheduling across your connected tools.

Just upload your emergency contacts as a .csv file, describe your situation, and CrisisCopilot does the rest—communicating with your contacts, generating your action plan, setting calendar events, tracking expected expenses, and informing your team—all while you catch your breath.

What I Built

CrisisCopilot is a multi-step Runner H automation that helps you manage real-life emergencies without cognitive overload. It spans five tools (Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Sheets, and Slack) and uses one input (your emergency context + contacts CSV) to orchestrate a full support workflow.

I built it to simulate the experience of a real executive assistant who calmly says, "Don’t worry, I’ve got this." Except this assistant never sleeps.

Demo

Watch CrisisCopilot in action

The Google doc CrisisCopilot has created

How I Used Runner H

💼 Prompt Format Used in Runner H:

⚠ Note that you need to upload a .csv file of your emergency contacts first. You can get them by exporting them from Google contacts or any other contacts software as a .csv file. Then upload them to Runner H.

Then proceed to use this prompt below with all of the necessary connections--Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Drive, Calendar and Slack.

You are CrisisCopilot, my personal AI assistant for emergency management.

Emergency: There was a fire in my apartment building and I had to evacuate with just my phone and wallet. The fire department is here, but I don’t know how bad the damage is. I’m safe, but shaken. I need to find emergency shelter for tonight and figure out how to access insurance and document the damage. My laptop and important documents may be gone.

Your job is to calmly coordinate all my next steps across tools I've connected. Follow this workflow carefully:

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1. **Emergency Contacts**
   - Read the uploaded CSV file titled `emergency_contacts.csv`
   - Send a respectful, concise Gmail message to each contact describing the emergency and letting them know I may reach out soon. Keep tone calm and reassuring.

   ✅ *Example Gmail message:*

Subject: Quick Update – \[Your Name] is handling a personal emergency

Hi \[Contact Name],

I wanted to let you know that I'm currently dealing with a personal emergency: \[Brief one-line description, e.g., "a minor accident and medical recovery"]. I'm okay, but things may be a little unpredictable over the next few days.

Just wanted to keep you in the loop — I’ll follow up soon if anything needs your help or input.

Warmly,
Sai Shravan Vadla

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2. **Create a Google Doc**
- Title: "[Emergency Type] – To-Do List"
- Generate a list of 10–20 practical, organized to-dos to navigate this emergency.
- Categorize tasks by priority: *Immediate*, *This Week*, *Follow-up*
- Keep it clear, structured, and helpful.

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3. **Add Google Calendar Events**
- Create 10-15 events in my calendar ranging the next 10-12 days about any todos you might think are necessary.

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4. **Create Google Sheet: "Emergency Expense Tracker"**
- Columns: `Item/Service`, `Estimated Cost`, `Actual Cost`, `Date`, `Status`
- Add a few placeholder rows based on likely costs related to this emergency.
- Include a row at the bottom to show total estimated vs. actual costs.
This is really important. Please create this Google sheet at all costs. This should be a sheet and not a document.
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5. **Send Slack Message to My Team**
- Post a thoughtful message to our general team Slack channel to keep everyone in the loop and reduce confusion.
- Message should be empathetic, not overly dramatic, and set clear expectations.

✅ *Example Slack message:*

Hey everyone — just a quick heads up: I'm currently handling a personal emergency (\[brief mention, e.g., "some health stuff"]). I'm okay, but I may be slower to respond or need to delegate some tasks over the next few days.

I’ll keep you posted if anything urgent changes. Thanks so much for your understanding and support 🙏

– Sai Shravan Vadla

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6. **Final Summary PDF**
- Generate a PDF summary titled 'CrisisCopilot report':
  - What actions were taken, to whom were the emails sent to
  - What tools were updated
  - Link to the Google Doc, Sheet, Calendar events, and Slack message
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Use Case & Impact

Who is this for?

  • Remote workers or freelancers with no backup
  • Students or digital nomads
  • Solo founders juggling work and life
  • Anyone who panics in a crisis or forgets critical steps

How does it help?

  • Streamlines chaos into a plan
  • Notifies your people automatically
  • Keeps your calendar and budget in sync
  • Gives you space to breathe and focus on healing

This is especially powerful for people living away from family or with executive function challenges (like ADHD), who need support in moments of stress.

Social Love

🧠 Introducing CrisisCopilot – My AI agent for personal emergency management 🚨 | Sai Shravan

🧠 Introducing CrisisCopilot – My AI agent for personal emergency management 🚨 Built for the Runner H "AI Agent Prompting" Challenge When a personal emergency hits—like a fire, health scare, or sudden job loss—it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, forget critical steps, or not know what to do next. That’s where CrisisCopilot steps in. It’s an AI agent that helps you navigate a personal crisis with structure, calm, and clarity. You upload a CSV of emergency contacts and describe the situation. CrisisCopilot takes over: ✅ Emails your emergency contacts via Gmail ✅ Creates a to-do list in Google Docs ✅ Adds time-sensitive events to your Google Calendar ✅ Sets up an expense tracker in Google Sheets ✅ Notifies your team on Slack ✅ Generates a final summary PDF with links to everything I built this to help people (like remote workers, solo founders, or those with ADHD) who don’t always have someone to guide them when life hits hard. Tech should support us when we need it most—and Runner H made it incredibly easy to prototype this kind of real-world utility. Big thanks to @thepracticaldev and H Company for the challenge. If you're building agents that support humans beyond productivity, I’d love to see them. 💬 #RunnerH #AIagents #EmergencyTech #Automation #MentalHealthTech #ProductDesign #CrisisResponse #solobuilders #NoCode #indiehacker #OpenAI https://lnkd.in/gqCkegDb

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🙏 Final Thoughts

CrisisCopilot is just the beginning. In the future, it could:

  • Look up insurance policies
  • Connect with therapy services
  • Monitor medical documents or prescriptions
  • Add recurring wellness reminders

Runner H has made it incredibly easy to prototype something so real and so personal. I'm grateful to build something that could genuinely help someone in their toughest moments.

Thanks to H Company and DEV for this challenge.

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