Claude Code capacity, passed along
The capacity you don’t use just evaporates.
Every week your plan resets and whatever you didn’t spend is gone. Somewhere a few timezones over, someone has the whole thing mapped out and no headroom left to build it. Pledge the part you won’t miss. They’ll tell you what they’d make with it.
No money changes hands and nobody hands over an account. You run Claude Code on your own plan, on somebody else’s problem.
What a pledge looks like
Ten percent of a Max 20× week
≈ 2 Pro weeks · ~33h focused
- Same 10% on Max 5×
- 50CCU
- Same 10% on Pro
- 10CCU
One CCU is one percent of a Pro week. That is the entire unit. It means a Pro user and a Max 20× user can talk about the same number without doing arithmetic first.
Available right now
≈ 0% of a Pro week · ~0h focused
Donors pledging
0
no pledges yet
Projects waiting
0
nothing posted yet
Already committed
≈ 0% of a Pro week · ~0h focused
Fresh install, so every number above is a zero. That is what an empty marketplace honestly looks like — the first figure on this board will be somebody’s spare Thursday.
The shape of it
Two ways in
If you have capacity
You’re sitting on a week you won’t finish
- 01
Say how much.
Pick a share of your weekly allowance. Five percent, a third, whatever you genuinely won't miss. It converts to CCU at the plan you're on, so your slice and everyone else's sit in the same list.
- 02
Say what you'd back.
Tag the work you actually care about. Open source, testing infrastructure, small businesses, somebody's first real project. The matcher weights this.
- 03
Set your terms up front.
Choose which ownership arrangements you'll accept before anyone asks, so you're never deciding that under pressure with a stranger waiting on a reply.
- 04
Accept the ones you like.
Matches come to you. Nothing is reserved against your pledge until you say yes, and it comes back to you if the work falls through.
If you have an idea
You know exactly what you’d build
- 01
Write it down properly.
Title, summary, and the real detail. Vague posts get vague estimates, and a vague estimate is the fastest way to scare off the person who would have said yes.
- 02
Get it priced.
We work out what it should cost in CCU, phase by phase, and tell you whether the number came from the model or from the fallback rubric.
- 03
Ask, or get asked.
Browse open capacity and make your case, or leave the project open and let a donor come to you. Several pledges can fund one project.
- 04
Sign, then build.
Pick an agreement template, both of you sign it, and an encrypted thread opens between you. Then it's just work.
The unit
One CCU is one percent of a Pro week
That is the whole definition, and it is deliberately relative rather than a token count. Anthropic’s published limits move. A unit pegged to a percentage of a Pro week stays honest when they do, and it lets everyone price work in the same number regardless of what they pay each month.
Every pledge, estimate, match and ledger entry on this site is denominated in CCU. Percentages are a convenience on top of it, used when you pledge and nowhere else.
There is a rough dollar equivalence in the code — about $0.45 per CCU — purely so newcomers have a sense of scale. Nothing settles in money and that figure is never used for anything but intuition.
| Plan | A full week | 10% of it | 25% of it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Pro | 100CCU | 10CCU | 25CCU |
| Claude Max 5× | 500CCU | 50CCU | 125CCU |
| Claude Max 20× | 2,000CCU | 200CCU | 500CCU |
| Team premium seat | 500CCU | 50CCU | 125CCU |
Ten percent of Max 20× is two whole Pro weeks. 2 Pro weeks works out to roughly 33 hours of focused Claude Code, out of a plan most people never get anywhere near the end of. Donors underestimate this more or less every time.
Supply
Capacity on the table
No open pledges yet
Nobody has offered capacity so far. If you have a plan you never finish, you'd be the first.
Demand
Waiting on someone's headroom
Nothing posted yet
No jobs, ideas, loops or prompts on the board. Whatever you've been putting off because you'd run out of week, put it here.
Lately
What people have been doing for each other
Nothing has happened yet
This fills in as people pledge capacity, post projects, and finish work.
Reasonable doubts
The parts you're right to be suspicious of
Who ends up owning the thing we build?
You both decide before a line gets written. Every engagement is papered with a template you have each read: sole owner, equal split, a share proportional to what was contributed, straight to open source, or public domain. Nobody starts work on a handshake and a hope.
The rendered agreement is hashed when it goes out for signature, and each signature stores the hash of the text that signer actually saw. If the wording changes afterwards, both of you can prove it. These are plain-language starting points rather than legal advice, so if the project is worth real money, pay a lawyer to look at it.
Can you read our messages?
No, and not in the we-promise-not-to sense. Your browser generates a keypair and wraps the private half with a passphrase that never leaves your machine. Each conversation gets its own key, wrapped separately for every participant. The message table has a column for ciphertext and no column for plaintext, on purpose.
The cost of that is real and worth knowing before you start: lose the passphrase and the history is gone. There is nothing on our side to reset it with. We would rather say that plainly than build a recovery route that quietly undoes the whole design.
Isn't sharing a plan against Anthropic's terms?
This is the part to be careful about, so here it is straight. Nobody hands over credentials and nobody signs into anyone else's account. What gets pledged is your own time on your own plan, running Claude Code on somebody else's problem. Contribution, not access. That distinction is the entire design, and it is why the platform has no field anywhere to put a token in.
Sharing account access would be a different thing entirely and this is not that. Even so, read your own plan terms and make your own call. This is a community project with no affiliation to Anthropic, and it is not our place to decide that for you.
Someone gets a week of their life back because you didn’t need yours.
Pledging takes about a minute and commits you to nothing until you accept a match. Posting a project takes a little longer, mostly because writing down what you actually want is the hard part.