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CRCO brings events, communities, opportunities, venues and event vendors into one platform, so organisers stop juggling ten tools and creatives find everything that moves their career in one place.
Our Mission
Organisers stitch together ticketing apps, WhatsApp groups, Google Forms, Instagram DMs and spreadsheets. The community fades between events and the data scatters. CRCO was built to change that.
When you organise events you are building a community, and when you build a community you end up running events. CRCO connects the two, so the people who come to your event stay with you, and everything you learn about them stays in one place.
For creatives, CRCO is where the right events, opportunities and communities live in one feed.
5 Roles.
One Ecosystem.
Dillion S. Phiri
A social sculptor, entrepreneur, and creative technologist with 15 years of building ecosystems where African creativity can scale.
He is the founder of Creative Nestlings, a pan-African network of 100,000+ creatives, and co-founder of CRCO. He has incubated brands, raised funding, directed documentaries, and mentored hundreds of founders across the continent.
He built CRCO because the tools African creative communities needed simply did not exist yet.
Connect on LinkedInWho is CRCO for?
Whether you create, organise, attend, provide event services or manage a space, there's a place for you on CRCO.
Creatives
Find the events, opportunities and communities that match what you do. Apply for grants, residencies, fellowships, open calls and awards, track your applications, and get matched to what fits your practice.
Organisers
Run events, build the community that forms around them, and launch opportunities, surveys and newsletters from one place. Your audience and your data stay with you between events.
Attendees
Discover creative events near you, buy tickets in your local currency, keep your tickets in one place, and stay connected to the communities behind the events you love.
Vendors
Photographers, caterers, sound and AV, décor and the other services events run on. Get found by organisers, apply to events, and send quotes and invoices without leaving CRCO.
Venue Managers
List your space and receive booking requests from organisers. Send quotes, track deposits and see which events and disciplines your space attracts.
Everything you need, in one place
CRCO replaces a stack of disconnected tools with one platform built for how the creative economy actually works.
Events and ticketing
Tickets and RSVPs in local currency, ticket tiers, waitlists, multi-day schedules, QR check-in and post-event surveys with AI feedback summaries.
Communities that stay alive
Everyone who attends flows into your community. Post updates, send newsletters, share resources, offer membership tiers and bring people back for the next event.
Opportunities
Launch grants, funding programmes, residencies, fellowships, open calls and awards. Collect applications, screen them with AI assistance, run public voting and manage cohorts.
Venues and event vendors
Find and request a venue, then book the photographers, caterers, sound and décor your event needs. Quotes, invoices and bookings stay linked to the event.
Surveys and research
Run surveys one question at a time, open to anyone or to members only. People can save and continue later, and every respondent gets a copy of their answers.
Payments and payouts
Payments run through Paystack, and organisers manage their earnings and payouts from a community wallet.
Run it again, faster
Copy a past event or opportunity in one click, check it before launch, and see how sign-ups are pacing against your own previous editions.
Ask CRCO
Ask questions about your own events, applicants and audience in plain language and get answers from your data, without exporting a spreadsheet.
Community memory
Past events, vendor history, cohorts and playbooks belong to the community, so nothing is lost when someone on the team moves on.
One pipeline, one source of truth
Every step feeds the next, instead of dying in a group chat.
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Run an event
Sell tickets, check people in and collect feedback.
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Grow a community
Attendees join your community automatically.
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Book venues and vendors
Find the space and services inside CRCO.
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Launch opportunities
Offer grants, residencies and open calls to your community.
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Keep the data
Who came, paid, applied and returned stays in one place.
Contact Us
Have a question, partnership idea, or just want to say hello? We'd love to hear from you. Send us a message and our team will get back to you shortly.
General enquiries & support
Partnership & collaboration opportunities
Media & press requests
Platform feedback & feature requests
Ready to join the ecosystem?
More than 30 communities across South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya already run on CRCO.