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The Uber for workers, at wage cost.
Ride-share solved getting somewhere. Food delivery solved getting fed. Nobody solved the labour itself. Gigz is building the world’s first on-demand workforce - starting in Canada, scaling globally.
Snapshot
The 30-second version.
Stage
Live on TestFlight. Public launch Q3 2026.
First market
700K+ pop, GTA-adjacent demand corridor.
Round
Raising to launch, build operations, scale.
Sector
Marketplace · Gig · Vertical SaaS adjacency.
The thesis
Labour is the last category on-demand hasn’t cracked.
Every other vertical has its winner. Rides have Uber. Food has DoorDash. Groceries have Instacart. Workers have nothing built for them - just staffing agencies that take 30-40% commissions and gig apps that race wages to zero. Gigz fixes the broken middle.
Before Gigz
Friction everywhere.
- Customers can’t find help on-demand for moving, hospitality, snow, handyman, events.
- Workers lose 30-40% of their pay to agencies before they see a dollar.
- No vetting standard - customers gamble, workers go unverified.
- Payment is manual, slow, and disputed weekly.
After Gigz
Tap, match, done.
- Customers post instant or scheduled jobs - vetted worker arrives.
- Workers keep 100% of their hourly fee and 100% of tips.
- Every worker is background-checked and Gigz-Labs certified by category.
- Stripe-powered weekly payouts. In-app chat. GPS. 911 tool.
Market opportunity
Big numbers, verified sources.
We don’t need to invent demand. The market exists - it just hasn’t had a platform built for it.
Global gig economy, 2025
Mastercard Global Gig Report
Projected by 2034
Precedence Research, 2024
Canadians in gig work
Statistics Canada, 2023
Ontarians unemployed
StatCan LFS, 2026
Wedge math
Start small, win big. If Gigz captures just 1% of the Canadian gig market at an average $25/hr rate and 2 hours per booking, that’s 24,000 jobs/week or roughly $62M GMV annually. Durham launch is positioned to capture 0.1% of that within year one.
Why we win
Structural advantages, not features.
Moat · 01
No-commission flywheel
Workers earn their full hourly rate plus 100% of tips. Lowest worker churn in the category by design - churn is the single biggest cost in any gig platform. Lower churn = lower CAC = stronger unit economics that compound over years.
Moat · 02
GigzLabs credential graph
In-app certification creates a verified skills graph competitors can’t replicate. Bartending School is the first GigzLabs app - forklift, hospitality, and food handler in development. Each new app deepens the moat and expands the marketplace.
Moat · 03
Ride Assist symbiosis
Workers without cars become incremental Uber/Lyft rides. Gigz expands ride-share TAM rather than competing with it. Every job we facilitate is a ride request - a partnership angle no other staffing or gig platform can credibly pitch.
Moat · 04
Enterprise wedge (GigzPool)
B2B contracts that traditional staffing fights over: moving cos, hospitality groups, property managers, event ops. Recurring volume, single invoicing, SLA-backed. Marketplace economics plus SaaS-style billing.
Moat · 05
Safety by default
911 emergency dispatching tool built into the app, GPS-tracked jobs, in-app chat on record, identity verification. No competitor ships this baseline - it’s an insurmountable trust gap once we’re first.
Moat · 06
Geographic compounding
Marketplaces win city-by-city. We’ve sequenced Durham → Toronto → GTA → Ontario → Canada → US Northeast. Each launch reuses the playbook with declining CAC.
Business model
Three revenue streams. One marketplace.
01 · Service fee
Customer side
Customers pay a transparent service fee on each job - platform infrastructure, dispute resolution, safety tools, support. Worker’s hourly fee is untouched.
Recurring per-job
02 · GigzPool
Enterprise contracts
High-volume business customers (moving cos, event ops, hospitality, property mgmt). Custom pricing, dedicated account management, single-invoice billing.
Recurring SaaS-style
03 · GigzLabs apps
Certification & training
Standalone education apps (Bartending School live; forklift, hospitality, food handler next). Acquisition funnel for the marketplace plus standalone revenue.
Subscription + tier unlocks
Traction
Where we are right now.
Product
Live on Apple TestFlight
Gigz v1.0.58 (customer) and GigzMod v1.0.25 (admin operations console) shipping to private testers. Stripe Connect payouts in active integration.
Launch market
Durham Region, Q3 2026
700K+ population, mix of urban + suburban + industrial demand. Proximity to Toronto for scale. Founder is based in Durham.
Tech stack
Production-grade
React Native + Expo (iOS/Android), Firebase backend, Cloud Functions, Stripe Connect for payouts, integrated mapping & identity verification.
Partnerships
Strategic conversations open
Uber Business pilot pipeline in motion. Enterprise customer interest in moving and event verticals.
Adjacent app
Bartending School in production
First GigzLabs certification app. Game-based learning, My Bar inventory, drink recipes. Doubles as marketplace acquisition funnel.
Safety & compliance
Built in from day one
911 emergency dispatching tool integrated, GPS-tracked jobs, in-app chat retention, background check pipeline, Stripe-only payment custody.
Roadmap
The path to a billion.
Phase 01
Durham launch
TestFlight → public launch Q3 2026. Worker liquidity in 6 categories. Stripe Connect live.
Phase 02
GTA expansion
Toronto + Mississauga + Brampton in 2027. 3 GigzLabs apps shipped. GigzPool enterprise live.
Phase 03
Canada-wide
Ottawa, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver by 2028. National Ride Assist deal. 10+ GigzLabs categories.
Phase 04
US Northeast
First US market 2029 - Buffalo, Detroit, Boston, NYC. Cross-border playbook proven.
Founder
Built by someone who lived the problem.
Christopher Lamont
Founder & CEO · Gigz Labs Inc.
Chris worked in hospitality, moving, and event ops for a decade before founding Gigz. He watched staffing agencies skim 30% off worker pay while customers waited days for confirmation. He saw certified bartenders unable to find shifts and shift managers unable to find certified bartenders - same city, same week.
Gigz Labs is the answer: a platform built by someone who knows the difference between a worker who shows up at 8 AM with the right tools and one who doesn’t. Based in Durham, Ontario. GitHub: GigzLabs.
The ask
Want the full pitch?
Data room access includes the pitch deck, financial model, product roadmap, partnership pipeline, and operating plan. Available under NDA. Founder responds personally within 48 hours.
All conversations confidential. Forward-looking statements are projections based on internal modelling, not guarantees.