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scheduledTier 1 $100 cash

The Fees Assistant

Client: St. Mary's SchoolSecondary school · Bath

Bursar's office, St. Mary's School, Bath · Gentle, a little nostalgic

St. Mary's governors have asked the bursar, Mr. Quinn, to 'use AI'. He'd settle for an assistant that spots which families might pay late, so the school can offer help early, and reads the supplier invoices piling up on his desk. The fees ledger it learns from was built by the 2011 computer club, with its own codes.

Team goal · 1,000 gems

Everyone on this contract works toward one sign-off from St. Mary's School. Sign-off means the assistant goes live next term and St. Mary's hands us the rest of the computer club's old projects.

Who you'll work with

Laura CollinsYour lead

Engineering Lead

Dry, warm underneath, short sentences. Notices how you did. Never gushes.

Mr. Quinn

Bursar, St. Mary's School

Patient, precise, has a fountain pen.

Theo Barker

Senior Developer

Friendly rival. Competitive banter, always generous in the end.

The client's system

Computer club codes

ROT13 on the ledger columns, double Base64 on the bursar's notes, and a pencilled Caesar shift on the governors' letters.

The lock · Decoding legacy formatsCron wheels · Scheduling and time zonesDependency hell · Package managementGit bisect · Debugging historyThreshold tuning · Evaluating AI modelsEval review · Reviewing AI outputPattern tiles · Input validationFirewall rules · Access controlAPI console · HTTP and APIsIncident board · On-call investigation

12 tickets · 10 kinds of work · every developer gets their own variant of each ticket

Opens in

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Entry fee
50
Pay / ticket
1–4
Band
0–499
Your time
72h
Model accuracy61% → 88%

launches at 88% · 0 / 1,000 gems shipped by the team

0 devs working toward it

When the goal is hit

$100

Cash pool sponsored by Deecoda · top contributors: $30 / $20 / $15, then $5 each for 7 more

0 gem pool

Everyone's entry fees so far, shared by how much each developer put in

  • The more gems you earn here, the bigger your share. Cash needs 6 shipped tickets.
  • Past halfway by the deadline still pays that share. Under halfway, your entry fee comes back.

Live on this company

Quiet so far. Be the first to ship a ticket here.