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Commonplace · a bit175 company

Tools for billions of people and businesses.

Commonplace turns the problems we see again and again in client work into self-serve AI products, built to work on an ordinary phone, on a slow connection, in more than one language.

Built from

Problems clients face every week

Works on

Ordinary phones and slow connections

Channels

Web chat, email and WhatsApp

Languages

English and West African languages

Products

Products built for everyday work.

1

Answer Desk

Available now

Upload your documents. Get an assistant that answers repeat customer and staff questions on web chat, email and WhatsApp, and hands off anything it cannot answer from your sources.

Try the demo below
2

Workflow Library

Available now

Tested, industry-specific workflows that install into the AI tools a business already pays for, and move with you if you change tools.

Ask for a walkthrough
3

Market Voice

Early access

Voice-first bookkeeping and stock tracking on WhatsApp for market traders, in English, Nigerian Pidgin, Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo.

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Live demo · Answer Desk

Ask a tenant question.

This demo runs on sample documents from an example property manager. Every answer shows where it came from. Questions the documents do not cover go to a person.

Answer Desk · Harbor Lane Property ManagementSample

Choose a question below.

Try the last one to see how Answer Desk handles something its sources do not cover.

Sample answers. A live deployment answers from your own documents.

How we build

Built for where most people are.

Ordinary phones

Tested on mid-range Android devices before anything else.

Slow connections

Small downloads, and core tasks that keep working when the signal drops.

Many languages

Voice and text in the languages people use at work, including ones commercial AI serves poorly.

Honest answers

Every answer cites its source. No source means a hand-off to a person.

Put Answer Desk to work.

We set Answer Desk up on your documents and channels, and train your team to keep it current.