Founder Names

Karl Uy, Nix Nolledo

Team Location

Philippines

Product Description

GIG is a telco-backed micro-task marketplace that turns mobile users into a SIM-verified workforce completing simple digital tasks to earn airtime and data rewards. It solves high-cost user acquisition and the shortage of high-quality human-generated data for AI and consumer brands by providing scalable, verified labor through mobile networks.

Product Stage

Revenue generating

Product URL

https://gigrewards.com/

Tech Stack

react native (PWA), native apps (ios and android)

Onchain Rationale

We currently don't have an on-chain component. But we want to introduce on-chain verification to ensure that human-generated data used for AI training is cryptographically attributable, tamper-proof, and auditable across its full lifecycle. Without this layer, data provenance remains opaque, making it difficult to reliably verify who produced what data, under what conditions, and whether it has been duplicated or manipulated across pipelines.

Traction Description

• 1m+ users

• 2 different markets: Philippines and South Africa with other emerging markets in the talks

• 1.8 in realised revenue

Has Revenue

Yes

MRR or Total Revenue

1.8m realised revenue

Social Channel URL

https://www.facebook.com/gigrewardsph/

https://x.com/gigrewards?lang=en

https://www.facebook.com/GIGRewardsSA/

Social Follower Count

100k+ total

Prior Funding

- bootstrapped - initial fundraise for this project

Cap Table Notes

Founders 90%, Team ESOP 10%

Raise Target Amount

1m

Raise Target Valuation

10m

Expected Close Date

Q4 2026

Use of Funds

• Scale up data collection operations in local markets (Philippines, South Africa) through telco distribution and partner expansion.

• Build and expand engineering capacity to support core platform infrastructure, marketplace scaling, and telco integrations.

• Develop AI capabilities for data collection, quality assurance, fraud detection, and automated validation of datasets.

• Establish a financial buffer to pre-fund dataset production and guarantee liquidity for large enterprise and AI training contracts before client settlement cycles.

Why Circuit

We're at a transition point where GIG is moving from a successful telco-distributed pilot in the Philippines into a multi-market rollout across South Africa and additional telco partners. The core challenge now is not demand, but scaling the underlying data infrastructure, specifically building a reliable AI data and QA engine, while introducing stronger verification and trust systems for enterprise-grade datasets. At the same time, we're refining how we position and finance the business as it moves from consumer rewards into a high-margin data services layer. Circuit is well-timed for us because we want to pressure-test the go-to-market and fundraising narrative with investors who understand both consumer distribution and on-chain/AI infrastructure as we scale.

One Unlock

Access to investors and operators who understand the intersection of consumer distribution, telco rails, and on-chain data infrastructure, and who can underwrite the transition into a structured AI data network. We want help sharpening the fundraising narrative and connecting with partners and capital aligned with scaling a high-volume, verified data supply chain across Southeast Asia and beyond.

Founders Full Time

Yes

Can Travel to Singapore

yes

KPI Commitments

• close a fundraising round

• hit 5m in revenue with more than 50% of that coming from AI data services

• collect 100,000 video hours and 100,000 audio hours for our in-house on-the-shelf dataset inventory by end of 2026

AI Tools Used

• chatgpt codex

• claude code

• openclaw

• higgsfeld

• z.ai