One platform to pay thousands of workers globally, across every payment rail they actually use.
GigPay reimagined payroll for the creator economy — one platform capable of paying thousands of people across bank transfers, wires, crypto, stablecoins, and cash pickup from a single reviewable workflow.
How might we allow businesses to pay thousands of workers globally while giving recipients complete flexibility over how they receive and access their money?
Finance teams juggled spreadsheets, multiple banking providers, and disconnected payment processors just to send a weekly payroll run.
Musicians, performers, freelancers, and international contractors each wanted to be paid differently — banking, crypto, or cash — with no single tool serving all of them.
Cross-border regulations, currency conversion, and country-specific rails made every new market a bespoke integration.
Sending thousands of payments at once meant one bad row could corrupt an entire payroll — and teams had no reviewable workflow for it.
The payment wasn't the hardest part. Managing thousands of them was.
A payment passes through eight systems before reaching a worker, creating multiple opportunities for delay, fees, compliance review, or failure. The journey moves from Employer, through Payroll CSV, Payroll Provider, Bank, International Transfer, Currency Conversion, and Local Banking Partner, before finally arriving at the Worker.
Paying one person was manageable. Paying thousands across multiple countries wasn’t.
Payroll systems weren't designed for the creator economy. Businesses paying musicians, performers, freelancers, and independent contractors relied on fragmented tools, slow bank transfers, and expensive providers.
A single platform capable of paying thousands of recipients across bank, wire, cash pickup, crypto, and stablecoins — with one reviewable workflow.
An MVP payment ecosystem that supported multiple currencies, multiple rails, and both employer and recipient experiences from one shared component system.
Each surface was designed against a specific failure mode of the legacy experience — fragmented tooling, recipient diversity, cross-border complexity, and low-confidence bulk payments.
Finance teams manually validated thousands of rows across spreadsheets and banking portals before every payroll run.
A single reviewable payroll run replaced hours of manual spreadsheet stitching.
Every surface ships from a shared system — tokens, components, and patterns documented so future teams can extend the product without re-deriving its rules.
Bulk CSV workflows replaced spreadsheets and manual bank transfers with a single reviewable payment run.
Bank transfer, wire, cash pickup, crypto, and stablecoins delivered through one shared workflow.
International recipients paid in the currency and channel that fit their local reality.
A QR-based pickup experience gave unbanked recipients same-day access to physical cash.
A shared component system let engineering extend new rails and countries without redesigning core screens.
Every screen communicated progress, reducing financial anxiety for both employers and recipients.
GigPay unified payroll, crypto, cash pickup, and international transfers into one platform built for the creator economy. Instead of forcing recipients into a single payment experience, businesses could pay thousands of workers globally—each in the rail that fit their life—while finance teams operated from one calm, reviewable surface.
A modular payment architecture let engineering ship new rails and countries as configuration, not redesign.
Recipients wanted radically different rails inside the same payroll run — banking, stablecoins, and cash pickup, all in one week.
I'd invest earlier in a shared design system spanning the employer dashboard and the recipient mobile app so both surfaces evolve together.
Every case study in this portfolio began with a complex problem, an ambitious team, and a decision to build something better. If you’re solving the next one, I’d love to help write its success story.
