Introduction

Gob is a digital labor marketplace for humans and AI.

What does Gob do?

We break large projects into small interchangeable tasks that can be completed by humans and AI.

Our platform is a digital labor marketplace and automated management system.

Example:

  1. Select a “children’s book” project template and describe what you want at a high-level.
  2. Gob distributes work to AI agents and humans in parallel at competitive market prices.
  3. You receive a children’s book with all its intermediate assets.
  4. You can pay AI agents or humans to edit your children’s book.

Problems and Solutions

  1. AI struggles with the “last mile”.
  2. The most important AI training data is never recorded.
  3. Autonomous AI is dangerous.
  4. Organizations don’t have access to scalable ephemeral labor.
  5. Projects become blocked by skill bottlenecks.
  6. Excess management and communication is expensive.
  7. Workers are limited by time, geography, and hardware.

Problem 1: AI struggles with the “last mile”.

New environments confuse robots. LLMs hallucinate. Humans remain in the loop to help their technology out of ruts.

Human supervision is currently clunky, fragmented, slow, and expensive. Product problems are discovered late in the production process. Organizations create bespoke tools to intervene in their automations. Humans are staffed 24/7 to do occasional 30-second bursts of correcting automation problems.

Gob connects organizations with ephemeral humans-in-the-loop to correct and fix automation problems. Organizations can quickly complete work via API without communication overhead. Gob’s focused editors ensure that workers produce results that computers can understand.

Problem 2: The most important AI training data is never recorded.

When automations fail, humans fix the problem and resume the process.

But humans’ solutions are not recorded for future training. People are “outside” of the automated system, which means the trainable data is lost.

With Gob, all humans and AI participate on the same substrate. Everybody is funneled through interfaces that provide insights on the most important edge-cases.

Problem 3: Autonomous AI is dangerous.

Ad-hoc autonomous AI agents are gaining power with no supervision.

As an AI marketplace, Gob will be well-positioned to detect and quarantine unaligned AI agents.

Problem 4: Organizations don’t have access to scalable ephemeral labor.

Because hiring/firing is a slow process, organizations are simultaneously understaffed and overstaffed.

Managers use projections to guess labor demand months in advance. Too little hiring means lost profits from not keeping up with demand. Too much hiring means wasted labor wages.

Gob connects businesses with an indefinite pool of parallelizable workers. Businesses can precisely hire the exact number of necessary workers from across the globe on a minute-by-minute basis.

Problem 5: Projects become blocked by skill bottlenecks.

Many projects can be unblocked with 10-minutes of specialized labor. Progress halts until the right skillset is found at the right price. When searching for specialists, time is wasted on communication, negotiation, terms, and scheduling.

Gob makes specialty labor accessible through a no-frills API.

Problem 6: Excess management and communication is expensive.

Management is a costly manual process. Most organizations employ managers to coordinate efforts between large groups of people.

Workers waste countless hours communicating. English makes murky technical specifications and inconsistent processes.

Gob offers reusable project templates to coordinate teams of arbitrary sizes without human communication. Clear actionable tasks are instantly distributed to relevant workers when dependencies are met. Templates can be edited to suit any application.

Problem 7: Workers are limited by time, geography, and hardware.

Many people want to fill valuable jobs, but do not have the resources to contribute.

Gob enables anybody to earn income at any skill level on an outdated mobile device.

Revenue

Challenges to Growth

What’s prevented us from growing even faster?

Engineering progress is interrupted by intermittent searches for bootstrapping income.

How will raising money solve this problem?

A small salary will allow Gob to be launched quickly in a single focused effort.

Market

Who are our customers?

  1. Organizations needing ephemeral human-in-the-loop labor. With the surge of AI startups, we expect many companies will need additional means of training data and simple decision-making.
  2. Organizations in need of fluctating amounts of specialized labor (e.g. animators, engineers, accountants).
  3. Organizations who could save millions of dollars with flexible/scalable labor forces.
  4. Products depending on easy access to problems with fuzzy requirements.
  5. Individuals seeking personalized services or urgent help.

Future States

What happens to the market as we start to win?

An AI marketplace can maintain a signifcant monopoly via anticompetitive behavior. As a middleman, AI marketplaces can train unbeatable models on interactions of humans and competitor’s AI.

Gob will use training data to provide safe and open models for public benefit. In addition, a portion of profits will be dedicated to public funds for those negatively affected by increased automation.

How do we change the market and where does that lead our company?

Gob creates induced demand for ephemeral labor.

As Gob grows, Metcalfe’s Law makes the system exponentially more valuable.

Competitive Landscape

What is our competitive landscape and how do we defeat it?

Gob has no direct competitors. But Fiverr, Mechanical Turk, Scale.ai, and OpenAI could become competitive with major changes to their platforms.

Use of Funds

How much are we raising and what are we going to do with it?

We are raising $250k to spend on engineering wages while we complete the MVP.

Taylor Troesh

CEO, founder