Earn while you Learn

Earn while you Learn
Our team has delivered Software Projects in Unknown Domains using new Technologies with minimal resources using Agile Methodologies.
Trade Finance, Integrated Accounting, Jewellery ERP/POS (Retail), Garment/Toys Supply Chain, HR, Risk Management, SaaS Enablement, Artificial/Machine Learning, Computer Vision Integration, Go To Market CRM Automation, Customer Service and more.
We have worked with Student Interns, Women with small children working from home at their own pace and delivery Quality Results with strong foundation.
Combined with AI/ML techniques we are continually improving the delivery process and confident to add value to your organization.
Hence we are confident to offer "Pay On Delivery" ZERO RISK with Source Code Escrow.
If your team is not good at writing Business Scope, need not worry. Our team will help to nurture from Ideas to Implementation with our broad domain , technology and Project Management expertise.
Our team also has accumulated knowledge on Go To Market Strategies and We will help you from ideation to implementation with clear Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
You pay ONLY if YOU get REVENUE Performance results.
We are NOT greedy. Our goal is to create opportunities providing Dignified Knowledge Based Work for Persons with Disabilities and Carers who are otherwise Socially Excluded and Students who are struggling with exorbitant international Tuition Fee expenses.
On the one hand Graduates and Experienced both unable to find jobs and on the other hand Startups and Corporates have many backlogs not completed on time. Even IT services companies with funds layoff employees in 10,000s. Persons with Disabilities in-spite of huge Government Budget do not complete University Degree and even if completed cannot get employed.
Our aim is to fill this gap between Education and Employment applying our team's combined experience to create opportunities equitably and ethically for everyone.
Do a pilot Project with us with clear Business Scope and Acceptance Criteria.
Trust and Invest in us to hire the best team to achieve our goals.
If you are Skilled in AI/ML/Computer Vision Technology, Sales, Finance, Legal,
with Values aligned to Gradagig philosophy,
join us as Co-Founders (not employees) to grow together
to fulfil meaningful social impact and achieve your Ikigai - Sense of Purpose.
End to End Solution
Quality Work
Timely Delivery
Flexible Terms
Access to specialized Skills
Risk Mitigation
Competitive Advantage
Increased Efficiency
Cost Savings
Scalability
Go To Market Support
Aligned to Corporate Social Responsibility
Knowledge Based Project Gig Experience
Learn how to apply latest technology
Better than Minimum Wages
(depending on project and performance)
Flexible Hours at your own pace without stress
Access to Social Impact Donors' Financial support (subject to terms and conditions of Donors)
Student Ambassadors will have opportunity to receive share options (subject to contribution - Code Quality, Timely Delivery, Documentation, Communication, Self-initiative, Innovation, Problem Solving)
Dignified Knowledge Based Work
Learning opportunity in new technologies
Work at your own pace
Stress free
Work Life Balance
Key contributors will have opportunity to receive share options
(subject to performance)
Investment into Sustainable Social Impact Project
Access to Deserving Student Profiles to enable support for education (SDG4)
Greater Control
Avoid un-ncecessary Management Fees and Carried Interest fees
Fair Returns
(subject to terms and conditions)
Fair returns
Scalable Social Impact Investment
Aligned to SDG
Access to Gen Z, Alpha community
to build Brand Loyalty
Access to Student Spend
(Subject to scale)
Josy would like to use her knowledge in English literature to help people
with rare diseases. She has excellent Communication skills in English and Chinese.
Priya aspires to be a Judge. She is keen to learn paralegal related work. She has excellent Communication Skills in English and Hindi as well as Computer Software. https://www.linkedin.com/in/priya-srivastava-0b48a61ab/
Naresh is pursuing his MBA at IIT Madras. He is keen to learn Marketing and apply his HTML, CSS coding. He also teaches visually impaired students.
After contacting 200+ Corporate HR/Law Firms , till date I have not been able to get them any sustainable work from home jobs.
Constraints are they prefer not go to an office (stressful), they can only work for 2 to 4 hours (upto individual to decide) (Some give excuse as a Risk (fear cannot terminate once engaged, some give excuse Employee Insurance cannot be arranged, some give excuse no experience, some expect to work long hours - if there is a will there is a way - just lack the Willingness to try - how can some one get 'experience' if no one want to coach? By NOT employing them, only the Corporates are losers of Loyal Intelligent Dedicated employees .
Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)
AM Jain
(1982-1985)
BSc Physics
T-Mobile
AT&T
Megasys
PwD Ambassador
University of Hong Kong
(2022-2024)
Master of Arts in English Studies
Paediatric Home Respiratory Support Society (PHRESS)
Wall Street English
Software Engineer
Udemy (2021-2025)
Machine Learning
Caracas, Venezuela (2019)
English
Corporacion dbSys, C.A
Oko Tecnología
Mentor/Advisor (CTO)
IISc
PGLACP (AI/ML/GenAI) (2024-25)
CalTech
PGP (Cloud Computing) (2021-22)
Wells Fargo
GlobalLogic
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajivkumarsrivastava/
PwD Ambassador
IIT Madras (2025-2027)
MBA
Osmania (2020-2023)
Bcom
Chakshumathi
I-Stem
Brand Manager
SVCE (2006-2010)
B.Tech IT
Artpreneur
Illustrator and Educator
Catalyst Enabler Organizer (CEO)
CEG (1982-1985)
B.E Industrial Engineering
Entrepreneur
Cosmic Asia Pacific Ltd
Lifewood BPO
IRESC
Google Euphonia
https://sites.research.google/euphonia/about/
Quorum
Scratch Block (MIT)
Duolingo
NISH
HTBF
https://www.helptheblindfoundation.org/history/
30 million Children have severe Speech and Hearing impairment globally and 80% of them do not get access to quality education. Only 2% can learn Sign Language. There 300+ different Sign Languages with 5,000 to 200,000 vocabularies. Not sure how the Language (Mother Tongue), Environment, Culture affect the learning.
There are many AI/Computer VIsion research going on for many years. But not much adoption in the mainstream community especially in low income countries where the problem is acute. Some Research estimate an USD980bn economic loss (cost) to the society (2019 estimate). WHO estimates 700 million persons will be affected by 2050.
As per CUHK report , Speech therapists are in short supply globally. In the US the ratio of speech therapists to population is 1:2,290. In Hong Kong, the ratio is 1:20,000. In mainland China, it is 1:1.3 million.
https://www.iso.cuhk.edu.hk/english/publications/CUHKUPDates/article.aspx?articleid=2354
Our research is to make a small dent and how we can add value to this huge problem. This requires real life data collection, applying AI/Machine Learning to categorize and pave way for an inclusive society.
Globally many researchers are working on solutions to tackle this huge problem.
Our goal is to be able to make an impact for small group of Target Persons with Speech/Hearing Impairment may be begin with Tamil and Cantonese language in the age group of 15 to 25 (to be concluded) to enable them Learn how to communicate, Upskill and enable them to deliver Knowledge Based Gigs , Earn sustainably and live with Dignity and Self-reliance.
We hope they can be next generation entrepreneurs creating employment for many more.
All contributors to the growth of Grad a Gig will be rewarded equitably. This will be meaningful only if the Revenue & Profits can grow Multiple X sustainably Year on Year.
Team must be Cohesive to grow together. Co-founders need to be role-model to hire and train others to ensure the values are strong DNA of the organization.
Every startup entrepreneur has a big dream. We believe this is very much essential for society to progress. But unfortunately NOT all dreams turn into reality.
There are 150 million startups in 2025 (50 million new ones every year)
90% of them fail
With cumulative experience in launching from Concept to Scale, our team will support you even if you are an one-person band.
Email us to learn more.
We want you to succeed and avoid certain mistakes we learnt by trial and error.
No strings attached. We are hear to listen.
No idea is bad. It is the execution which need expertise.
Our Vision is to provide
End to End Solution Delivery
for
Businesses and Startups
with Software Product Backlog and
Go-To-Market support
We are NOT an Offshore Outsourcer
We are NOT a Recruitment Agent
Grad-a-gig's mission is to
reduce the gap
between
Education and Employment
using
AI to match
students with
Potential Project Gigs
and
Social Impact Investors
to support their Tuition Expenses
Our mission is also
To include
Persons with Disabilities
in getting dignified knowledge work
To include
Minorities and
Women Who can Code
enabling them contribute
at their own pace enhancing
work life balance
It all started in 1991 with Roger (at age 27) started the Entrepreneurial journey with COSMIC. He did not know PC programming, he had no Business experience, he had no Accounting knowledge, yet he learnt programming, he acquired accounting knowledge, and after over 7 months of hearing only 'No's grew from
home office to 40+ people organization and
first Million Dollar project in 1998.
He sold that business to then NYSE listed Silverline Technologies in 2000.
That entrepreneurial spirit of creating new business, new market is still alive and thus Gradagig is born at age 59. More on that story https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/happy-thanksgiving-celebrating-30th-anniversary-rajagopalant/
Our strong belief is that any business can scale multiple X growth only
if the Customers are willing to pay for the Product or Services offered.
However we also recognize that an
idea alone is not enough,
but businesses need a cohesive team with necessary skills to create unique value and necessary funding to implement the strategy. Hence Customer Centricity at Grad-a-gig
applies to all the stakeholders,
Customers, Students, Co-founders, Employees, Social Impact Investors, Venture Capitalists.
Mutual respect
is one of the founding principles of Grad-a-gig.
Every business face many different type of challenges all the time. At Grad-a-gig we want to build the team who are not afraid of taking risks (calculated) and not afraid of failures (willing to learn from mistakes).
We follow Agile and PDCA methodologies.
Most of the time we work with many uncertainties, ambiguities and hence 'Can do' positive attitude is very crucial for our success. Most of the time we will tread on paths no one has adventured - off-course within our own boundaries outlined by our core philosophy of Democratising Student Loan and Including Persons with Disabilities, Minorities and Women.
We are here to help Customers solve their pain points with confidence at mutually beneficial win-win ways. Based on our collective experiences, in-spite of many technological advancements like AI/ML and others, many Corporates (big and small) and new Startups face many challenges in delivering their
Core Product/Services R&D and Go To Market Strategy
using latest Digital technologies to increase their Profits and Market Share. With our many years of combined experiences we believe we have an Unique Value Proposition to deliver End to End solution to help our customers grow faster and efficiently at mutually agreed timeframe, most importantly at a fixed cost.
Our value
Performance based R&D Engineering @speed
At Grad-a-gig we aspire to build a team which is cohesive, transparent in communication without any hidden agenda- keep up mutually agreed time (basic etiquette), discipline, keep promises and open for constructive criticism. Since our initial focus is in Software R&D projects, we aim to work as a team inclusively without Ego
Treating everyone with mutual respect.
We also need team who are Quality Conscious (Write Clean Code/Document to reduce Rework and have better Maintainability) and
Doing the Right thing first time and everytime, Aiming High (to be the Best),
Curious to learn all aspects of the business and Apply Best practices from the Industry,
Innovative (Continually looking for ways to improve iteratively enjoying the process) with high level of Integrity.
AMUL is in the business of Dairy products from 1946 and growing exponentially using its Cooperative Business Model with Lean administrative costs
benefitting both Consumer of Milk (best quality and low prices without Middle men) and also the Producers (Millions of farmers in the rural villages) getting all the latest technology support to improve their quality of life and the livestocks
https://businessmodelanalyst.com/amul-business-model/
In similar fashion, Grad-a-gig wish to give clients
the best quality to solutions at affordable cost and benefit the
Students in reducing their debt burdens doing gigs at better than minimum wages, at their own pace and also creating social impact
by actively and consciously
including Persons with Disability, Minorities, and Women for an inclusive society.
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