“Our alumni data is years out of date.”
People change jobs, cities and email addresses. Contact lists decay every year.
- With Commons: alumni keep their own profiles current, because the platform is worth coming back to.
Civic Engagement · Alumni Platform
Your alumni are the heart of your mission.
Alumni must thrive for you to keep your brand promise. A white-labelled platform for fellows, volunteers, graduates and former employees: curated jobs and business opportunities, city meet-ups, lifelong mentorship, and a live record of the lives they touch.
20,000+ alumni profiles across organisations on the platform
Alumni are the heart of your intervention. Most teams are losing touch.
Alumni teams at fellowships, volunteer networks, universities and companies run into the same four walls.
“Our community lives in forty WhatsApp groups.”
Spreadsheets, forms and chat groups, with no single home and no memory.
- With Commons: one directory, one feed and a chapter for every city, all under your brand.
“Alumni only hear from us when we need something.”
Most alumni stay passive when there is no real value for them.
- With Commons: jobs, business opportunities, mentors and benefits give alumni a reason to stay.
“We can’t show what our alumni achieve.”
Funders ask what happened five years later. Reports take weeks to stitch together.
- With Commons: alumni log their impact, and it adds up into your organisation’s impact cloud.
Build your organisation’s impact cloud.
Your impact cloud, and the network in an alumnus's hand.
A network alumni can search.
Find alumni by city, cohort, sector, company or skill, and see who is hiring or open to mentor.
- 01
Profiles alumni keep up to date themselves
- 02
Open to work, open to mentor
- 03
Private by choice, always
- 04
One directory instead of forty groups
A chapter in every city.
Alumni stay close when they meet, not when they get a newsletter. Chapter leads publish meet-ups and alumni RSVP in a tap.
- 01Its own space, leads and calendar
- 02Meet-ups published, RSVPs taken, people checked in
- 03From a Saturday coffee to a national summit
- 04Attendance across cities, cohorts and years
One home for the whole community.
Wins, questions and news from across the network, with announcements from your team in the same place.
- 01An alumni feed worth opening
- 02Stories that travel to your site and socials
- 03Groups by interest
- 04Learning programmes and alumni benefits
Stay connected, grow together, show your impact.
Stay connected
One home for your whole alumni community
Forty WhatsApp groups and a spreadsheet are not a community. They are a chore.
- A living directory
- Search alumni by city, cohort, sector, company and skill.
- Profiles alumni keep up to date
- Alumni update their own job, city and story, so your records stay fresh.
- Open to work, open to mentor
- Alumni say what they can offer and what they need.
- Private by choice
- Every alumnus decides what others can see.
Stay connected
City chapters and meet-ups
Alumni stay close when they meet, not when they get a newsletter.
- A chapter in every city
- Alumni in each city get their own space, leads and calendar.
- Meet-ups made easy
- Chapter leads publish events, take RSVPs and check people in.
- Reunions and conferences
- From a Saturday coffee to a national alumni summit.
- See who shows up
- Attendance across cities, cohorts and years.
Stay connected
News, stories and a feed
Alumni want to hear about each other, not only about the organisation.
- An alumni feed
- Wins, questions and news from across the network.
- Stories that travel
- Publish alumni stories on your site and social channels.
- Groups by interest
- Founders, school leaders, policy people, parents.
- Announcements
- Updates from your team, in the same place.
Stay connected
Learning and alumni benefits
Keep alumni growing, and they keep coming back.
- Learning programmes
- Short courses, workshops and leadership programmes.
- Alumni benefits
- Scholarships, discounts and offers from your partners.
- Certificates
- Issued for every programme completed.
- Podcasts and talks
- Recordings from alumni who have done it before.
Grow together
Jobs, curated for alumni
The most valuable thing you can offer five years on is the next opportunity.
- Recommended for each alumnus
- Jobs matched to skills, city and career path.
- Alumni hiring alumni
- Graduates post roles for the network, and see who applied.
- Partners and the sector
- Openings from partner organisations, promoted where it counts.
- Every kind of role
- Full time, part time, freelance, fellowships and volunteering.
Grow together
Business opportunities
Your alumni are founders, buyers, suppliers and investors. Help them find each other.
- Post an opportunity
- Co-founders wanted, suppliers needed, pilots and partnerships.
- Founders’ circle
- A space for alumni who run organisations and businesses.
- Warm introductions
- Ask for an intro through a shared cohort or chapter.
- Deals tracked
- See which partnerships and ventures came from the network.
Grow together
Lifelong mentorship from industry mentors
Mentoring starts strong and fizzles. Unless someone keeps it going.
- Industry mentors
- Leaders from business, government and the sector join as mentors.
- Matched on real needs
- Pairs matched on goals, skills and city.
- Sessions and goals
- Book sessions, keep notes and track goals, for years.
- Alumni mentor the next cohort
- Graduates guide current fellows, volunteers and students.
Grow together
Former employees as advocates
The people who left you are future clients, referrers and rehires.
- A corporate alumni network
- Stay in touch with everyone who worked with you.
- Referrals and rehires
- Share roles with alumni first, and welcome people back.
- Brand ambassadors
- Give alumni news and stories worth sharing.
- Business from alumni
- See which clients and partners came through former colleagues.
Show your impact
Track the lives your alumni impact
Your intervention does not end when the programme does. Neither should your data.
- Alumni log their impact
- People reached, schools run, jobs created, in a minute on the phone.
- Careers over time
- Roles, sectors and cities, year after year.
- Ventures and organisations
- Every organisation founded by an alumnus, and whom it serves.
- Stories with proof
- Photos and numbers attached to every story.
Show your impact
Your organisation’s impact cloud
Add up what every alumnus is doing, and you see your real footprint.
- Lives impacted, in one number
- Rolled up across alumni, causes, cities and years.
- By cause and place
- Education, health, livelihoods, climate and more, on a map.
- Live, not once a year
- Updated as alumni update their profiles.
- Your brand promise, proven
- Show what your alumni make possible.
Show your impact
Surveys that go the distance
Funders ask what happened five years later. Most teams cannot answer.
- Regular pulse surveys
- Short check-ins at set points after the programme.
- Easy to answer
- On the phone, with reminders that stop once answered.
- Compare cohorts
- See how each year’s alumni are doing, side by side.
- Honest numbers
- Data alumni gave themselves, with dates and sources.
Show your impact
Reports for your board and funders
The same few numbers, ready when they are asked for.
- One report
- Alumni, careers, ventures and lives reached in a single pack.
- By cohort and cause
- Cut the numbers the way the question was asked.
- Evidence attached
- Stories and proof beside the figures.
- Ready to send
- Exported in the formats funders expect.
The case for alumni.
20K+Alumni profiles on the platform, across organisations we serve
23×More likely to give back when alumni feel connected (RNL, 2024)
2 in 5Alumni engage in a typical year
31%Of new hires are people returning to a former employer (ADP, 2025)
Every stage of alumni life, handled.
Four things every alumni team asks for first.
- 01 · Connect
A home for every alumnus
Profiles alumni keep up to date, a directory to find each other, and a chapter in every city.
- 02 · Grow
Opportunities that bring them back
Jobs and business opportunities curated for each alumnus, posted by partners and by alumni themselves.
- 03 · Mentor
Mentorship that lasts
Industry mentors matched on real goals, with sessions, notes and progress kept for years.
- 04 · Prove
Your impact cloud
The lives your alumni impact, added up by cause, city and cohort, ready for your board.
One platform, every alumni community.
Whoever your alumni are, they get one home, under your name.
01Fellowship alumni
Fellows who become school leaders, founders and officials, and keep leading together.
02Volunteer alumni
Past volunteers who return as leaders, donors and champions.
03Graduates
College and university alumni, organised by city, batch and career.
04Former employees
Colleagues who moved on and still refer, buy from and rejoin you.
The Global Goals it moves.
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Quality Education
Quality Education5
Gender Equality
Gender Equality8
Decent Work and Economic Growth
Decent Work and Economic Growth10
Reduced Inequalities
Reduced Inequalities16
Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions17
Partnerships for the Goals
Partnerships for the GoalsWhat an alumni team sees at a glance.
Pieces of the product teams open every day.
In the alumnus's hand
- CMCharu MenonSecond year · today×
- RMRohan MehtaFinal year · yesterday×
- AIAnanya IyerFirst job · 2 days×
Mentor requests
4
312
Profiles updated today
- Graduated
- Connected
- Mentoring
- Giving back
Alumni journeys
Civic EngagementAlumni Platform
- Field appOffline
- Auto syncOn
Opportunities that find them
Active in 18 states
Chapters
₹16.3 L
Q1Q2Q3Q4
Given back this year
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In 11 languages
% since 201538
Alumni by decade
Everything an alumni team runs on.
Open any one to see it in the product.
Alumni keep their own job, city and story up to date, so your directory never goes stale.
Mentor requests- CMCharu MenonSecond year · today×
- RMRohan MehtaFinal year · yesterday×
- AIAnanya IyerFirst job · 2 days×
Open to mentor- LMLeela Menon
- JCJames Carter
- ASAditi Sharma
- TDTenzin Dorjee
Find alumni by city, cohort, sector, company or skill, and see who is hiring or open to mentor.
Opportunities- Community outreachPune chapter · 24 spotsOpen
Village clean-upSunday · 8 AMLive- Mentor sessionOnline · Thursday
Update your profile- Where you work nowAzim Premji Foundation · Bengaluru
- Open to mentor?Yes · 2 students a term
- What you can help withPick up to three
- Share with the directoryName, city and role
Curated roles, co-founder calls and partnerships, recommended to the right alumni.
Reunion · who is comingNameYesMaybeNo- Leela Menon
- James Carter
- Aditi Sharma
- Kabir Rao
- Tenzin Dorjee
Alumni- Graduated
- Connected
- Mentoring
- Giving back
Industry mentors matched to alumni, with sessions, goals and notes that last beyond the first coffee.
Given back this year₹16.3 L
Q1Q2Q3Q4Alumni by decade% since 2015382015 onwardsEarlierA space for every city, where chapter leads run meet-ups and alumni RSVP in a tap.
Devices- Field tablets · 42Offline
- Auto syncOn
- Conflict checkOn
Records queued318
will sync on Wi-Fi
Lives impacted, organisations founded and careers built, added up live for your board and funders.
Roles- AdminFull access
- Chapter leadOwn data
- Field staffCapture only
ChaptersActive128Pending6
Mentor requests
- CMCharu MenonSecond year · today×
- RMRohan MehtaFinal year · yesterday×
- AIAnanya IyerFirst job · 2 days×
Open to mentor
- LMLeela Menon
- JCJames Carter
- ASAditi Sharma
- TDTenzin Dorjee
Opportunities
- Community outreachPune chapter · 24 spotsOpen
- Village clean-upSunday · 8 AMLive
- Mentor sessionOnline · Thursday
Update your profile
- Where you work nowAzim Premji Foundation · Bengaluru
- Open to mentor?Yes · 2 students a term
- What you can help withPick up to three
- Share with the directoryName, city and role
Reunion · who is coming
NameYesMaybeNo
- Leela Menon
- James Carter
- Aditi Sharma
- Kabir Rao
- Tenzin Dorjee
Alumni
- Graduated
- Connected
- Mentoring
- Giving back
Given back this year
₹16.3 L
Q1Q2Q3Q4
Alumni by decade
% since 201538
2015 onwardsEarlier
Devices
- Field tablets · 42Offline
- Auto syncOn
- Conflict checkOn
Records queued
318
will sync on Wi-Fi
Roles
- AdminFull access
- Chapter leadOwn data
- Field staffCapture only
Chapters
Active128
Pending6
From the people using it.
Most agencies hand you a deliverable and disappear. Commons stayed through the messy months after launch, until the system genuinely ran without them.
Selection used to take four months. We now run a full cohort cycle in seven weeks, and we know every fellow before they arrive.
Sign-ups, shifts and hours in one place. Our volunteers stopped falling through the cracks between WhatsApp groups.
Connected to the tools alumni already use.
Sign in with Google or LinkedIn, meet on Zoom, keep in touch on WhatsApp, and report in Google Sheets.
Pricing that fits your alumni.
Your own branded alumni platform from ₹10,000 a month. Every plan carries your brand and keeps your alumni data yours.
Community
For programmes with their first alumni cohorts
₹10,000/ month
- Your own branded alumni platform
- Directory, profiles and city chapters
- Jobs and opportunities board
- Events and meet-ups
Organisation
Most popularFor established fellowships, universities and volunteer networks
₹30,000/ month
- Everything in Community
- Lifelong mentorship with industry mentors
- Impact tracking and the impact cloud
- Surveys and funder reports
Enterprise
For companies and large institutions
Custom
- Corporate alumni and rehires
- Several brands, programmes or campuses
- Single sign-on and data residency
- Onboarding, migration and dedicated support
Building your alumni community this year?
“Tell us how your programme runs today. We will show you the product on your own workflow, and be honest about whether it fits.”
SG
Request a demoSatyam GambhirCo-founder, commons.inc
Quick answers.
Any organisation whose people move on and should stay close: fellowships, volunteer programmes, colleges and universities, and companies with former employees.
Alumni update their own profiles, because the platform gives them a reason to: jobs, mentors, meet-ups and benefits. Short check-ins fill the gaps.
It adds up what every alumnus reports: lives reached, organisations founded, jobs created. You see your total impact by cause, city and cohort, and can share it with funders.
It is white-labelled with your name and colours, on your own web address and app. The data is yours, and alumni control what others can see.
Yes; we stay through launch until your team runs it.
Your alumni are your brand promise, kept.
Every programme promises to change lives. Your alumni are the proof. When they thrive, find work, start ventures and lift others, your promise becomes evidence. When they drift away, so does your story.
“Anyone can build you a solution. We stay until it actually runs, in your context, with your team, on your ground.*”
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Prashant Mehra
CEO, commons.inc
CEO, commons.inc
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