GigDay wasn't built in a boardroom. It was built over twenty years — in rooms full of brilliant creatives who deserved better than they were getting.
You didn't master your craft to spend half your life chasing invoices, haggling over handshakes, and duct-taping admin together.
For too long, being an independent gig pro meant running a chaotic, invisible backend — chasing payments like a debt collector, signing vague handshakes instead of real contracts, and treating a real business like a hobby.
And it was rarely talent that held people back. It was trust — clients hand their event and their money to whoever feels professional. We believe everyone deserves to feel that way, without needing an agency behind them.
For two decades I've worked across this world — designing, performing, producing, and travelling Asia meeting hundreds of extraordinary creatives. So many of them were wildly talented, and still getting taken advantage of — underpaid, paid late, or never paid at all.
The hardest part wasn't the unfairness. It was watching gifted people lose work they deserved, simply because no one ever taught them how to look the part. I tried to build GigDay years ago and got scammed by a design agency that took the money and never finished the job. Then I saw what AI could really do, realised I could build the whole platform myself — and jumped in. And here we are.
For years, we brought creatives together across China and Singapore — to learn from speakers, showcase their work, find collaborators, and discover the tools and technology shaping the industry. Rooms full of talent who just needed a stage, a network, and someone in their corner.
GigDay is that room, rebuilt. And the gatherings are coming back.
Talent was never the problem. The lack of tools, and the lack of trust, was.
