Common Cents

Education · Pay it forward

Digitise your business with AI, and pay it forward

A hands-on, 2-hour consult for companies and organisations that want to streamline how they work. Learn to use AI tools like Claude to build your own website, task tracker, HR system, Telegram bot or CRM, then pay what you wish toward our education work.

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Employee app home screen with shortcuts for activities, leave, claims, learning and payslipsTelegram bot chat showing a location check-in and the list of commands
HR system and Telegram bot, built with AI tools.

What you can build

Tools that fit how your team actually works

Instead of paying for software that almost fits, or an agency to build it, learn to build and adapt it yourself.

WebsitesA fast, modern site for your business that you can update yourself.
Task & project trackingAssign work, track deadlines and approvals, and generate documents from templates.
HR systemsAttendance, leave, claims, payslips and staff self-service in one app.
Telegram botsLet your team check in, apply for leave or log expenses straight from a chat.
CRMsKeep customers, deals and follow-ups in one place instead of scattered sheets.

Built this way

Real tools, built with AI

These are tools Jeshua built for Crossworks and Common Cents using AI tools, the same approach you will learn.

The Crossworks website homepage
Company website. The Crossworks website, with services, vacancies and a blog.
Task tracker listing tasks by team, project, assignee and due date
Task tracker and document maker. Tasks, projects, approvals and KPIs across teams, plus contracts and letters generated from templates. Shown with sample data.

Deploy open source

Not everything needs to be built from scratch

Learn to deploy and run proven open-source tools on your own server, instead of paying per user every month. We run these ourselves, for example a CRM and a finance and budgeting tool.

An open-source CRM showing a sales pipeline by stage
CRM. Companies, contacts, deals and follow-ups, with pipelines and workflows. Shown with sample data.
An open-source budgeting tool showing planned and actual income and spending by month
Finance and budgeting. Transactions, balances across currencies, and budgets against actuals. Shown with demo data.

How it works

From problem to working tool

  1. Tell us what slows you downEmail or WhatsApp us with the process you want to fix.
  2. Map it togetherWe work out what to build first and which tools to use.
  3. Build it in a 2-hour sessionYou build with AI alongside us, hands-on, and you own everything you make.
  4. Pay it forwardContribute whatever you feel it was worth to our education work.

Why do it

Save costs, work faster, keep the skill

Lower costsFewer software subscriptions and agency fees.
Better efficiencyLess copying between spreadsheets, chats and email.
Tools you ownChange them whenever your business changes.
A lasting skillYour team learns to keep improving its own tools.

Pay as you wish

No fixed fee. Your contribution funds education.

Each consult is a single 2-hour session, and you decide what it was worth. Everything you contribute goes to our education work: university scholarships for students in financial need, and learning tools for community schools in Kachin and Shan State.

Interested? Tell us a little about your organisation and what you would like to build.

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Common Cents is a social enterprise, not a registered charity.