HeroByApp™ is a program of CityByApp™ Inc., built on ByApp.ai.
From the July 29, 2026 ceremony in Indianapolis, honoring Sergeant Major Mary L. Aurtrey, U.S. Army (Retired).
HeroByApp™ is a program of CityByApp™ Inc., built on ByApp.ai.
National and Indiana newsrooms covered Indiana’s inaugural Community Hero. See the full press room →
Three ideas hold the whole program together, so you always know who’s behind the information in your community.
One Hero per state, recognized at the capital. Service, never politics.
That honor opens CityByApp™ to the whole state, free.
Every publisher is identity-verified. You always know who’s talking.
More than 3,700 AI-generated news and information sites now operate with no human accountable for a word of them. On a phone, one of those pages and a real city hall page can look identical. HeroByApp™ answers that by honoring a trusted local leader, and opening CityByApp™, the verified civic publishing platform, where every source is verified and every update traces back to a real, accountable organization.
The CityByApp™ home page — where verified local information lives. Tap to visit.
HeroByApp™ honors one community Hero from each U.S. state, with recognition at the state capital, and through that recognition opens statewide access to CityByApp™, a verified civic platform where accountable local agencies, nonprofits, licensed businesses, and civic organizations can publish source-attributed updates for the communities they serve.
To make verified local information accessible in every community, beginning in the United States and scaling globally, so residents, organizations, and civic leaders have one dependable place to stay informed, connected, and engaged.
Anyone nominates a local Hero. Free.
Recognized at the state capital.
The Virtual Key opens CityByApp™ statewide.
Every org and resident claims a verified place.
Verified local updates, carried forward.
One community Hero is honored in each of the fifty states, permanently. Indiana is first: on July 29, 2026, Sergeant Major Mary L. Aurtrey, U.S. Army (Retired), became Indiana’s inaugural Founding 50 Charter Honoree, and a Virtual Key opened verified civic access across the state.
See the Founding 50 →July 29, 2026 · Julia M. Carson Government Center, Indianapolis.
On July 29, 2026, Mary’s service was recognized by the State of Indiana, the City of Indianapolis, the United States Senate, and the United States House of Representatives.
These honors recognize Mary’s service. No endorsement of any program by an office or official is implied.
HeroByApp™ is a program of CityByApp™ Inc., a Delaware corporation that has been building verified civic infrastructure since 2013. Today CityByApp™ serves communities across all fifty states and more than 160 countries and territories. It was founded and is led by Jerome Mark Mikulich, whose civic work has been recognized across four consecutive U.S. presidential administrations.
Joining is free for every town, nonprofit, and business, with no public funds required. Sponsors underwrite the cost so verified local information stays open to everyone, and sponsors never control content, verification, or who is honored.
“Local trust is the most valuable thing a community has, and it is under real pressure right now. Sponsoring HeroByApp™ in Indiana lets us fund something that stays free for every town, nonprofit, and business in our state, with no strings attached to the content. That is exactly the kind of investment in our community we believe in.”
“I am thrilled to sponsor HeroByApp™. It keeps trusted local information free for the Lake County families I care for as a physician — and it reaches across the globe to my home city of Hyderabad, India, giving that community the same verified platform to share the information that helps them. Local honor, global impact.”
One honored Hero opens verified civic access for an entire state. Your sponsorship opens the next one.
Participation is voluntary, and the program is funded by sponsors so it stays free for communities, with no public funds required. The honor is never earned by an office or a party; it recognizes service. The Certificate of Honor stays unbranded, and sponsors never control content, verification, or who is honored. No endorsement is implied by any official or office.
Every way to take part, in one place.
