Service 090 of 100
Get a barter system or community currency built for your neighborhood
The Build Studio at CEOism builds community economies, barter systems, local currencies, and skill exchanges, so your neighborhood's value can circulate without waiting on cash, at a price you name. Every community is already rich in something: skills, time, tools, produce, trust. What is missing is the ledger that lets a haircut trade for tomatoes and a repair trade for tutoring without anyone keeping awkward mental accounts. We built Barterverse on exactly this belief, that everyone is anyone and value moves in more directions than money admits. We design the rules with you, build the app, and keep it simple enough that the least technical neighbor can trade. Describe your community, name your number, and we tell you honestly what it builds.
The 60-second version
We have built community economies before. Your neighborhood could run one.
We build it for you: we have built barter systems and community currencies, and your neighborhood could run one.
Tell us what it is worth to you. ceoism.com/studio.
What you receive
- A live community exchange app on your own domain
- A trading system designed around your community's real assets
- Member profiles, listings, and a clear record of every exchange
- Rules you set: who joins, what trades, how disputes settle
- An admin view for the community's stewards
How it works
- 1
Tell us what you need
One email. Describe the thing in your own words, plain language is perfect, and say the number that feels fair to you.
- 2
We build, you watch it become real
We reply honestly with what your number gets, then we build. You see the live thing take shape, not a slide about it.
- 3
You name the price
The price you set is the price. When it ships, it is live on a real domain and it is yours: code, keys, everything.
The receipts
Built by the same engine.
These are live apps from our own catalog that prove this exact service. Click them, they work.
Honest questions
- Is a community currency even legal where I live?
- Mutual credit and barter ledgers are legal in most places, but rules differ by country, especially around tax. We build the system; you confirm the local rules, and we design conservatively around them.
- What keeps people from gaming the system?
- Design, mostly: visible trade histories, limits set by the community, and stewards with real tools. Small economies run on reputation, so we make reputation visible and cheating expensive.
- How big does a community need to be for this to work?
- Smaller than you would guess. A street, a church, a co-op of thirty active people can sustain a lively exchange. We would rather launch small and real than large and empty.
Name your price on this.
Tell us what you need and the number that feels fair. We answer honestly with what that number gets.
Not looking to hire anyone? If you have the knack but never had the means, CEOism will hand you a company instead.
Service 090 · three takes
The films we shoot for this one
These are the scripts we actually film, published openly. Plain text is spoken out loud. Anything in the marked panels is for the camera or the screen behind us and is never read aloud. Three takes of the same service, so we can pick the one that fits where the film is going. The first is open below. Open the other two to read them.
Value that never becomes money
Opens inside the worry this service answers, and takes its time. Made for someone who already has this problem in mind, so it fits this page and it fits an audience that already knows us.
In most neighborhoods there is more skill going spare than cash. People fix things for each other, mind each other's children, lend out tools. None of it is counted, so none of it adds up to anything.
It can be a system. We have built barter systems and community currencies before.
Your community's economy. Built for your specific place, with rules your people agree on, not ours.
Message us and tell us who your neighbors are.
Take two · the direct cutFilm 090 · 15 to 25 secondsWithout money touching it
Opens on a claim or a visible result, with the offer inside the first ten seconds. Built to be shot with a screen recording playing behind you. Made for the feed and for paid placement, where nobody was looking for us.
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Watch an exchange settle without money touching it.
Your community's economy. A trading system built around what your people actually have, with rules you set for who joins and how disputes end.
We have given eleven companies away to strangers who never asked. Tell us about your neighbors.
Take three · the standing offerFilm 090 · 15 to 30 secondsThe rules are yours
Names the service in the first breath instead of hiding it behind a hook, then offers to build it. It puts the barriers on the floor: you name the price, and not knowing how any of it works is our job rather than yours. It also makes the promise most people never get, that we stay with the thing until it is real. Made for someone who has been carrying this idea around for a long time and needs to hear that somebody will actually take it on.
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Your community's economy. A barter system or a local currency, built for your particular place.
We have built these before, and we would build yours.
The rules are yours to set. Who joins, what trades, how a dispute ends.
We stay with it until the least technical neighbor can trade on it.
Tell us about your people when you like.