P2P-A2A: Peer-to-Peer, Agent-to-Agent — where accountants and AI agents collaborate to learn, verify credentials, and transact.
How accountants will attain, prove and monetise their credentials. A new standard for public trust.
GLOBAL PUBLIC GOOD INFRASTRUCTURE · PROFESSION OWNED
The accounting profession aims to bolster public trust and elevate perceptions of its value. Yet, many accountants struggle or neglect to maintain their relevant continuous education requirements. We investigated why.
CPE/CPD programs can be costly. Maintaining detailed records with certificates from different sources is tedious, with no automations.
Content is often basic or generalist, and can be lacking specialization for diverse professional levels, niches, or growth needs, especially if the product is low-cost or free.
Verifying members' CPE/CPD hours is a time-consuming and costly task for professional bodies. It's not feasible to do at a large scale or in real-time.
Consumers and regulators have no visibility into accountants' current educational achievements, a key to building trust and attracting clientele...and motivating compliance.
We are simplifying the task of CPE/CPD record keeping for accountants, at no cost to them, with verifiable and descriptive records on a transparent and easily auditable platform... which also unlocks new revenue streams. A net profit approach!
Automatically issues CPD/CPE certificates with details to your public Credu profile, updating logs of hours and competencies, aggregating all credentials for real-time compliance tracking.
Offers a globally accessible platform that is free to use for professional accountants to simplify their CPE/CPD tracking and publicly promote their expertise.
Eliminates auditing time and costs for the accounting bodies by automating CPE/CPD compliance monitoring and verification across the membership base. Overseeing members are meeting standards is managed through a single dashboard.
Empowers accountants and trainers to co-create specialized CPD content, monetizing expertise in a marketplace, while offering visibility to consumers seeking specialized knowledge.
Effortless CPE/CPD tracking, profitably enhancing your professional growth.
Automated CPD audits across the entire membership, reduced costs, data gains.
Gain reputation and market reach, increase revenue opportunities from content.
Find the expertise you're seeking, more trustworthy than any accountant's website claims.
Search for accountants & advisers with verifiable, current expertise to meet your needs.
Create public profile, collect CPE/CPD certificates, engage in a global P2P-CPD marketplace.
Set up dashboards, monitor member education, generate improvement reports.
List your learning events, issue digital certificates, sell to P2P-CPD marketplace.
Plan & develop pilot project: prototype for accountants & CPE providers.
Build and test with accountants and CPE providers.
Expand development to enable functionality for all users.
Pilot MVP with all users including accounting bodies and P2P-CPD marketplace.
Version 1 of the CREDU app will be built leveraging existing applications to showcase its concepts and potential. We will conduct a pilot with a test group of digital accountants and CPE/CPD training providers. Our MVP 1 is to ensure validation and inspire industry ambassadors to pitch the app to our professional accounting bodies.
Development on MVP 2 will then be expanded to enable all four user groups to interact: accountants, CPE training providers, professional bodies, and the public, with more advanced tooling to validate the platform's efficacy.
CREDU is to be developed as a PUBLIC GOOD using open-source software, without proprietary systems, shareholders or equity investors. Users will be rewarded based on their contributions. This approach is to ensure that value and decision-making are distributed among those who actively contribute to the platform's growth and success.
The Importance of Open-Source Foundations for a Truly Global Profession in the Accounting Industry
Open-source code fosters trust by allowing public inspection to verify it does what it claims to do.
Ensures all stakeholders can contribute and influence the project's direction for collective benefit.
Global contributions drive continuous improvement, increasing the project's value to more users.
Remains free from control by any entity or accounting body, to ensure impartiality.
Peer-monitored for quicker identification and fixing of issues by the community, enhancing security.
Leverages community contributions and game theory principles to reduce development and maintenance costs.
Easily customized for a global community to meet diverse professional needs and regulatory requirements.
Not reliant on a single group or the cooperation of professional bodies; community driven for long-term relevance.
For AI agents to verify credentials cryptographically, search autonomously for trusted expertise, and pay for it in crypto.
CREDU, and its associated DAO, CREDAO, is a social innovation project under the auspice of Digital Playhouse Foundation Ltd, a purpose-built Australian charity and Public Benevolent Institution, advancing public welfare through adaptation of existing skills to emerging technologies.
The project is led by Digital Playhouse co-founder and CFO, Electra Frost, a Chartered Tax Adviser and Accountant in Australian international professional practice since 2008.
As a business technologist with a long-term view, she is based at Network School in Malaysia/Singapore since September 2024. She is contributing to building the NS startup society and campus model with a Minimum Viable Community (MVC) that will develop education content and scale the CREDAO community and CREDU platform & dApp.
Electra is currently assembling a transdisciplinary team of educators, advisers and builders from emerging tech, finance and accounting fields to guide the project.
The CREDU platform is being developed through CREDU Academy, a rolling cohort programme hosted as a Network School residency in Malaysia/Singapore — building the platform and its community from the ground up with each intake of practitioners.
An accounting technologist and international tax programme at Network School, Malaysia/Singapore. Protected time to apply your expertise to advanced systems — AI, digital assets, blockchain, and cross-border practitioner networks.
Serviced accommodation, meals, coworking and gym — daily logistics handled so you can focus on progress.
No spectators. Every participant builds something they can use, defend, and take forward. Participants work with emerging verification and AI infrastructure to build real credentialing systems.
Limited to 10 per cohort. Stay in your role remotely. First cohort starts June 2026.
Join us in building the future of accountants' credentialing, continuous professional education, and agentic procurement.
Expression of Interest form for accountants, CPE training providers, and professional associations.