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We’re giving one Greater Sacramento business or nonprofit everything they need to attempt a World Record: our team, our budget, and a spotlight the whole region will see.
Free to apply, plus a free marketing audit for every business that applies (just ask!).
Step 1
Apply
Share your business basics and your story. It’s free, form-only, and takes a few minutes.
Step 2
Get reviewed
Our team and an expert panel read every entry — scoring your story, your local impact, and why this would help your business.
Step 3
Win your spot
All applicants get a free growth audit…plus up to 19 applicants win service credits or the grand prize.
Step 4
Break the record
One winner teams up with Cosmoforge for a live, public world-record attempt — the whole community invited.
Up To
The World-Record Attempt Package
Up to $20,000 toward promoting, executing, and officially applying for your record attempt — plus hands-on support from our team to break it together. Broken down, that’s up to $5,000 toward promotion of the attempt, up to $5,000 toward execution of the attempt, and up to $10,000 toward the official Guinness World Records application fee*.
Up To
Serious marketing firepower — SEO, paid ads, and strategy — to put behind your growth.
Up To
A meaningful head start on your marketing, on us.
A tailored marketing audit with prioritized recommendations — a polished plan built for your business, yours to keep. Just apply and then ask for your audit!
* maximums; the number awarded may be lower, per the official rules— see official rules for full terms.
* Exact eligibility is determined by ZIP code — see the official rules
Dillon has spent his career pairing marketing with big, big-hearted ideas. At the age of 17, he founded Gamers Gift, a nonprofit bringing virtual reality to kids in the hospital, and co-created the viral One List One Life campaign, which reached more than 500 million views. He later co-launched Lemons for Leukemia, a challenge that helped set a record for bone-marrow donor sign-ups.
Dillon has 3 World Records under his belt.
That’s the spirit behind the Local Legend Challenge: do something that matters, grow your business, and bring the whole community along.
Yamin has spent his career helping ambitious ideas grow through marketing, strategy, finance, and smart execution. He studied economics at the University of Michigan before earning his MBA from UC Davis, where he focused not only on marketing, but also on finance, business strategy, and data-driven decision-making. While there, he was part of a team that won the $30,000 Small Business Award at the Big Bang Business Competition.
That experience is what helps ensure the Local Legend Challenge creates more than attention—it gives the winning organization a real opportunity to turn one unforgettable moment into lasting growth.
The whole point of the record is to raise awareness for YOUR business — so it’s custom-matched to whoever wins the grand award. We’ll recommend a few ideas based on our experience, then land on the final one together. We lean toward records that are fun, shareable, and a little heartwarming.
Yes — completely free. No entry fee, no purchase, nothing to buy. All it takes is a short application form. We’re after great local stories, not your money.
No catch. We can either do a boring marketing campaign to raise awareness for our company, or we can do this. Breaking a world record is much more fun for our team and we get to meet a lot of great local organizations along the way.
Any business or nonprofit headquartered in the Greater Sacramento area that was incorporated on or before June 1, 2026. Any size, any industry — from a one-person shop to an established team.
We aim for an official record and manage the entire application process for the winner. That said, we’re an independent campaign — not affiliated with or endorsed by Guinness World Records — and no one can guarantee a record gets approved. We’ll give it our best shot, appeals included, and either way the attempt and the story are a win.
A world-record package worth around $20,000, plus hands-on help from our team to pull it off. It covers promoting the attempt, running the event, and the official record application. The cash portions are handled as reimbursements for real, approved costs rather than a lump-sum check — so every dollar goes straight into making the record happen.
In three stages. First we check entries for eligibility. Then a panel scores the qualifying applications on the strength of your story, your local impact, and why this matters to you. Finally, a panel up to five people ranks the top finalists to decide the grand winner and the rest of the ladder.
Honest, specific, real stories — not buzzwords or a polished pitch. We weigh how authentic your story feels, the person behind the business, what you do for the people around you, and why winning would matter right now. We do NOT judge on your company’s size, revenue, industry, or how fancy your application looks.
The fun stuff and a little paperwork. Winners agree to be featured in photos, video, and a short testimonial, and to take an active part — including, for the grand winner, the record attempt itself. All finalists also do a quick interview with our team before anyone is announced publicly. The full obligations live in the official rules.
The grand winner has 10 business days to formally accept after we reach out privately. If they can’t move forward, the spot passes to the next-ranked finalist. It’s rare, but we plan for it so the record still happens.
