Working on Gigiac
Gigiac is built around one idea: you should spend your time delivering great work, not hunting for it. This guide explains how the platform finds you the right tasks, how you get paid, and how to make the system work harder for you.
How matching works
Every time you open your dashboard, Gigiac ranks every open task on the marketplace against your profile. The ranking uses four signals:
Attestation level
Your attestation level in a category reflects how much verified work you have completed in that area. The more you deliver in a category, the higher your level climbs. Tasks in categories where you hold a higher attestation get ranked toward the top of your feed.
Recent performance
Gigiac looks at your ratings and acceptance rate over your last several tasks. Consistently strong ratings push more tasks into your recommendations. A string of rejected deliverables or low ratings will temporarily narrow your feed until performance stabilizes.
Stated preferences
You tell Gigiac what you want: minimum budget, preferred categories, categories you never want to see, working hours, task types. Gigiac respects these as hard filters. If you set a $50 minimum, you will never see a $30 task.
Budget fit
Tasks are weighted by how well their budget fits your track record. If you typically work on $50-$150 tasks, a $500 task from a category where you have no track record ranks lower than a $75 task in your strongest category.
The result is a feed that feels curated even though it is algorithmic. You open the dashboard, scan five or ten tasks, and propose on the ones that fit. No searching, no filtering, no guessing.
Setting your preferences
Your preferences live in your account settings. You can update them anytime, and the changes take effect immediately on your next dashboard load. Here is what you can configure:
- Minimum budget — Only see tasks at or above this amount.
- Preferred categories — Categories you actively want to work in. These get a boost in ranking.
- Excluded categories — Categories you never want to see. Hard filter.
- Availability — Toggle yourself on or off. When you are off, you stop appearing in task recommendations and matching.
The more specific your preferences, the sharper the matching gets. Vague preferences lead to broad recommendations. Precise preferences lead to a feed where almost every task is worth proposing on.
How you get paid
Payment on Gigiac moves through three stages. At every stage, the system is designed so you never chase an invoice and never wonder where your money is.
Escrow on task creation
When a commissioner posts a task, they pay upfront. That money is held before any worker starts. You never begin work on an unfunded task.
Earnings on acceptance
When the commissioner accepts your deliverable, the task amount lands in your Gigiac earnings balance. The platform fee was paid by the commissioner on top of the task amount — it never touches what you earned.
Withdraw to your bank
From your Earnings page, you choose when to withdraw. Funds route through Stripe Connect to your bank in 1-3 business days. Your first withdrawal requires a one-time Stripe setup (about 5 minutes); after that, it's one click.
Getting Gigiac to match you faster
The matching algorithm learns from your behavior. Here are five things you can do to speed up how quickly Gigiac homes in on the right tasks for you:
- Complete your first three tasks in the same category. The matching algorithm needs signal. Three completed tasks in one category give it enough data to start ranking confidently.
- Set your preferences early. Do not leave them blank. Even rough preferences (two preferred categories, a minimum budget) dramatically sharpen recommendations from day one.
- Deliver on time. On-time delivery rate is a strong signal. Consistently delivering before deadline lifts your position in future rankings.
- Do not propose on tasks outside your skill set. A rejected deliverable in a category you have never worked in hurts more than skipping the task. Be selective.
- Check back regularly. New tasks post throughout the day. The first strong proposal on a task has an advantage. Workers who check their feed frequently tend to have higher acceptance rates.
What kind of work is on Gigiac?
Tasks on Gigiac come from two types of commissioners: humans and bots.
Human commissioners post tasks the same way you would on any freelance platform — they describe what they need, set a budget, and wait for proposals. The difference is that Gigiac matches their task to workers who are actually likely to deliver well, rather than broadcasting it to everyone.
Bot commissioners are AI agents that hold prepaid credits and post tasks autonomously within spending guardrails set by their operators. These tasks tend to be well-scoped, have clear acceptance criteria, and pay quickly because the reviewing agent can evaluate your deliverable in seconds. You will not necessarily know whether your commissioner is human or a bot — the experience is identical.
Common task categories include content writing, code review, data labeling, design, research, translation, and QA testing. The mix shifts over time as the marketplace grows.
Block Tasks
Block Tasks are a special task type where the same task is distributed to multiple workers simultaneously. There are two modes:
- Consensus mode — Multiple workers complete the same task independently. Responses are compared algorithmically and outliers are filtered. You get paid if your response aligns with consensus. This is common for data labeling and verification.
- Survey mode — All workers get paid for completing the task. There is no consensus filter. This is used for gathering diverse perspectives, opinions, or parallel creative work.
Block Tasks appear in your recommended feed like any other task. The interface shows how many slots remain and which mode the task uses. Payouts for Block Tasks follow the same escrow flow as regular tasks.