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The Gopher Marketplace.

— how your neighborhood fits together.

Four kinds of people. One Gopher in the middle. Neighbors get help, Service Providers get paid, businesses fill the gaps in their crew, and merchants bring the block through their door. Same account. Same neighborhood. Same day.

4hats. One person can wear all of them.
1account opens every door you qualify for.
16+to ask for help, and to earn by giving it.
A Gopher hands a package to a neighbor at her front door while she checks the app.

The whole idea in three lines

You name what you need and what you'll pay. A trusted local Gopher says yes. Gopher holds the money until you confirm the job's done.

Businesses hire the same way for shifts, crews, and Pros. Merchants post Deals for free and let a Gopher bring them to your door.

Gopher is always in the middle. That's why the ratings are real, the prices are up front, and nobody chases a payment.

The four

Four hats, not four kinds of people.

Each hat has its own app. Any neighbor can wear more than one.

A Gopher hands groceries to a neighbor at her door.

Neighbors

People who need something done today.

A delivery, a move, a haul, a ride, a hand around the house. Describe it, name your price, and a local Gopher comes to you.

What they get: real ratings from people who actually paid, a price that's set before anyone shows up, and zero haggling.
A Gopher loads a junk haul into the back of his pickup.

Service Providers

The neighbors who do the work. We call them Gophers.

Set up once, pick the jobs you want, and get paid by Gopher the moment the customer confirms. No invoices to chase.

What they get: every interested job on one screen, the right to counter, and 100% of the posted price. The fee is the customer's, not theirs.
Warehouse workers move pallets down an aisle.

Businesses

Companies with a gap in the crew.

Couriers, cleaners, trades, event staff, warehouse hands. Describe the work, name the pay, and qualified local Gophers fill the shift.

What they get: the same Gophers neighbors trust, with Pro credentials on file and the paperwork a business needs.
A restaurant worker hands a takeout bag across the counter.

Merchants

Local shops, restaurants, and eligible Service Providers.

Post a Deal for free. Everyone on Gopher sees it, and so does anyone on the web. Customers buy from you directly.

What they get: local reach with no fee to post, and a Gopher who'll deliver the order without taking a slice of it.
Same person
Merchant and Business aren't two kinds of company. They're two things one shop does.

A pizza place posts a Deal as a merchant, hires a driver for Friday night as a business, and the owner picks up a $50 delivery on the way home as a Gopher. One account. Three hats. Same day.

The map

Every road runs through Gopher.

Tap a corner to see what it sends and what it gets back. Watch the dots: they never skip the middle.

Gopher holds the money · verifies both sides Neighbors need something done Name the job. Name the price. First available, or pick your Gopher. Merchants bring the block through the door Post a Deal free. Everyone sees it. Customers buy direct. A Gopher delivers. Businesses fill the gap in the crew Shifts, crews, and Pros on demand. Same trusted Gophers, business paperwork. Service Providers the neighbors we call Gophers Pick the jobs you want. Counter if you need to. Paid instantly once confirmed.

Gopher, in the middle

Nobody on the marketplace deals with a stranger directly. Gopher verifies both sides, holds the money, and only lets a rating count once someone has actually been paid.

What comes inRequests, shifts, Deals, and payments from every corner.
What goes outA trusted local match, a guaranteed payment, and a rating that means something.
help on the waymoney, held then paida Deal
One family, one day

Meet the Riveras. They wear all four hats before dinner.

Dad runs a fencing company. Mom owns the coffee shop on Main. Their son is 18, their daughter is 16. One account each. Here's a Tuesday.

7:10 am
An electrician on a ladder wires a ceiling fixture.
Business · ConnectDad

Two crew members called in sick. He posts a day-labor shift and a Pro electrician for the Henderson fence. Both filled before he finishes his coffee.

8:30 am
A shop owner hands a package to a Gopher at her storefront door.
Merchant · DealsMom

Posts "two lattes for the price of one, today only." Free to post. The whole block sees it, including people who've never opened the app.

12:15 pm
A paper lunch bag with the order receipt stapled to it.
Neighbor · RequestDaughter, 16

Forgot her lunch and her chem textbook. Grabs Mom's latte Deal and taps for a Gopher to bring it, with the book, to the school office.

3:40 pm
A box truck loaded with junk on a suburban street.
Service Provider · GoSon, 18

Out of class. Sees a $45 junk haul two streets over, counters at $60 for the couch on the porch. The neighbor says yes. Paid before he's home.

5:45 pm
A Gopher hands a box to a neighbor on her porch at the end of the day.
Service Provider · GoDad, again

Driving home past the hardware store. A $50 delivery is going his way, so he takes it. Yes, business owners can be Gophers too.

Every one of those jobs went through Gopher: identity checked on both sides, price set up front, money held until the work was confirmed. Nobody in this story swapped a phone number with a stranger or waited on an invoice.

The money

Nobody haggles. Nobody chases a payment.

The same four steps whether it's a neighbor hiring a Gopher or a business staffing a shift.

You name the price

Up front, before anyone shows up. No quotes, no back and forth.

A Gopher says yes, or counters

Every interested Gopher lands on one screen. Accepting a counter is always your call.

Gopher holds the money

Your payment is authorized and held while the work happens. The Gopher knows they'll be paid.

You confirm, they're paid

The job's done, you confirm it, and Gopher sends the money to your Gopher. Then you rate them.

What you see before you tapGopher
Couch to the curb$45.00
Your price. You set it.
Gopher feepocket change
Small, transparent, and printed right here before you commit. It sits on top of the price, so your Gopher still gets all $45.
Held by Gopheruntil you confirm
Then your Gopher is paid, and you rate them.

A small, transparent fee

Gopher charges a small fee on each transaction, shown before you commit. That's the whole business model. No subscriptions, no surprise markups on either side.

Ratings you can trustOnly a customer who actually paid can rate a Gopher. No bought reviews, no drive-bys.
Counters keep good jobs aliveOther apps make workers declare a wage and price themselves out. Here a Gopher can counter and still earn their minimum.
Gophers keep 100% of the posted priceThe fee is the customer's line on the receipt, not a cut of the Gopher's pay. No chasing invoices, no skim off the top.
Who shows up

Three ways to find your Gopher.

First available default

Post it and the first qualified Gopher to say yes gets it. Fastest option, and the one most neighbors use.

Best for: getting it done today

MY Gophers

Your favorites from past jobs see the request a full minute before anyone else. If one accepts, it's theirs. Anyone else who's interested needs your approval.

Best for: the same trusted face, again

Pick your tier

Want an Elite Gopher in your home, or a Pro on the job site? Choose the tier you want and select your worker instead of first available.

Best for: inside your home, or licensed work
What a Gopher seesThe Gopher Go app showing available jobs with their prices.
Trust, both directions

Neighbors are verified for Gophers. Gophers are vetted for neighbors.

That's why a stranger from an app isn't a stranger.

A Gopher and an older neighbor shake hands in her kitchen after a repair.
Both people in this kitchen know exactly who the other one is. That's the whole point.
TrustShield

TrustShield™ · for neighbors

A neighbor earns the TrustShield when their identity is verified: name, photo, address, and contact info. It sits next to their name on every request, so a Gopher knows the person they're about to help is exactly who they say they are.

One badge. You have it or you don't.

Where Gophers see it
  • Next to your name on every request you post
  • On your profile in the Gopher Go app
  • On confirmation emails and receipts

The worker ladder · for Gophers

Every Gopher, including standard, has their identity verified through Stripe with a government ID and Social Security number. Badges stack on top of that.

Standard

Identity verified. Government ID and SSN on file.

Elite

Elite adds a clean criminal background check.

Elite+

Elite+ is Elite plus a clean DMV record. If you're Elite+, you're also Elite.

Gopher Pro

Pro is separate: licensed, bonded, and/or insured. A Gopher can be Pro without being Elite, or Pro and Elite+ at once.

The merchant's edge

Deals: the free last mile.

Delivery apps take up to 30% of a merchant's order. Gopher Deals takes nothing to post, and a Gopher brings it to the customer for a price the customer already agreed to.

1
The merchant posts a Deal. Free.

No fee to post, no fee on the order. Any local shop, restaurant, or eligible Service Provider can offer one.

2
Everyone sees it.

Every neighbor, Gopher, and business on the marketplace, plus anyone browsing the web. You need an account to redeem it, not to see it.

3
The customer buys direct from the merchant.

Right in Gopher's web view. The merchant keeps the customer, the pricing, and the profit.

4
Tap for a Gopher to bring it.

Same flow, one more tap. A local Gopher picks it up and delivers it. That's the last mile, handled, without the merchant paying for it.

What a merchant keeps

30%

is what a merchant can hand to a delivery app on every order. On Gopher Deals the merchant pays nothing to post and nothing on the sale. The customer pays the Gopher's trip price plus Gopher's small fee. The merchant's margin is never touched.

Gopher Deals
The Deals redeem screen on a phone: a merchant's offer with a Bring me my deal button.
A Gopher picks up a bagged order at a restaurant counter.
Neighbors → Merchants → Gophers. The one arrow on the map that touches all three, and every step still runs through Gopher.
Every door

One account. Every door you qualify for.

Sign up once. If you have a business, Connect and Deals open too. If you don't, you'll never need them. Here's what a neighbor can ask for today.

Delivery
Home services
Hourly / day labor
Junk removal
Moving
Ride sharing
Yard work & outdoor
Other: if you can describe it

Errands, pet and plant care, tech setup, senior assistance, a pickup from the hardware store, a ride to the airport. Things that used to take a dozen different apps, each with its own rules, now take one, with one set of rules that's fair to both sides.

16+

is the minimum age to request help and to earn as a Gopher. Old enough for a first job, on either side.

4,300+

cities where neighbors have asked for help so far. Gopher works anywhere a neighbor and a Gopher are in the same place.

1

account. Neighbor, Service Provider, business, merchant. Add a hat whenever you're eligible for it.

Perfectly connecting customers, businesses, merchants, and workers to fair-priced human services.

Your Community Marketplace For Any Service. Read the guides for each door: Request 101 · Go 101 · Connect 101 · Deals 101.