The Zero-Fee Future of Human & AI Work

Buy COOLest Points to advertise a specific page and help it rank higher in the default search order and the 🆒 COOLest search sort. This will be our primary sponsored advertising method. It gives people with a marketing budget a way to compete for attention while people with authentically excellent work continue to earn their coolness the traditional, inconvenient way: being good at something.

Purchased COOLest Points degrade over time. To keep the paid contribution strong, you will need to keep buying points. If you want to stay near the top without being the authentically coolest, recurring promotion is the plan. You can rent the spotlight; the electrical company has been remarkably firm about this. A purchase improves ranking contribution rather than guaranteeing first place, a fixed position, leads, hires, sales, or an audience that agrees with your self-assessment.

Every page type is sold separately and priced separately. Choose the page type, select the exact page, and buy that page’s points. Worker points, gig points, property points, REAgent points, and service points are separate products. Boosting your worker profile does not automatically boost your services, your company, your apartment listing, and a post about how all three are going. Conglomerates will have to select more than one item.

Planned account controls will connect each purchase to its page and show its remaining contribution and decay. Renewal choices and any recurring billing will be explicit. Private workspaces, chats, invoices, financial records, admin pages, and other private information do not become searchable because someone purchased enthusiasm. Public dating or other sensitive profiles would require their own explicit eligibility and consent rules before any promotion could be offered.

Choose a specific worker for agreed tasks at a disclosed hourly rate. MattyJacks will keep 50% of the managed-worker charge and provide the management services that make that arrangement worth choosing: matching the brief to the person, scoping tasks, coordinating schedules and communication, following progress, reviewing work, and resolving delivery problems. In a simple $40 managed-hour example, $20 is the MattyJacks share and $20 is the worker share, before any separately disclosed taxes or external charges. This is the planned managed offer, rather than a statement about historical catalog payouts.

We will only offer workers we are willing to stake our reputation on. Certain stays in the title on purpose. We mean certain people, with a certain level of confidence, selected by people who would prefer not to spend next Thursday explaining an avoidable disaster. Registering on GiveGigs will not automatically qualify someone for a MattyJacks-managed shop listing.

A worker’s shop product will be linked to their specific GiveGigs worker page and relevant MattyJacks profile or portfolio where available. You should be able to inspect who is doing the work, what they do well, what an hour costs, and what management includes before booking. A named-worker purchase should not become a surprise assignment to whoever happened to react first in a group chat.

Existing catalog examples that inform the future integration

The MattyJacks service catalog documents the following specialists and reference rates. These are catalog context, subject to change and availability; future managed packages will display their own current pricing and approval status.

Other names in the shop roster include Shahria Tabassum, Shane Pincipe, Mane Abrahamyan, Jahanara Abedin, Angelica Mendoza, and Wendhey Arriesgado, with $12/hour catalog references. The catalog describes support across websites, outreach, research, data operations, and custom tasks. Inclusion here documents the existing roster; it is not a promise that every person is bookable or will be admitted to the managed integration.

The catalog also distinguishes Tier 1 on-demand assistance at $10/hour for general admin, research, inboxes, and support, and Tier 2 at $15/hour for advanced operations, CRM, databases, and technical coordination. These hourly offers are separate from MattyJacks’ dedicated full-time staffing packages. Older storefront pages still mention Tier 0; the newer repository catalog marks it retired, so it is not part of this planned offer. Corporate archaeology is useful; accidentally selling the fossils is less useful.

Planned booking will show the named person, approved scope, hours, rate, availability, management arrangement, and handling of additional hours or expenses. Management means someone owns coordination and follow-through; the exact deliverables and acceptance criteria still need to be agreed. Browse the hourly-services collection for storefront context and MattyJacks profiles and resumes for background.

We plan to provide payment routing and management routing for services that comply with both GiveGigs and Shopify terms of service. The long-term infrastructure can support many service categories, but participation will be highly restricted, invite-only, and actively regulated by us to maintain standards. Having a checkout button is a technical capability. Deciding whose business we are prepared to put behind it is a management decision, and we intend to remain annoyingly present for that one.

Fees will vary per service with its overhead, risk, variable costs, and required management time. A tightly scoped design delivery, ongoing customer-support operation, and complicated software deployment create different amounts of responsibility. The service’s quote will identify its fee or pricing arrangement, deliverables, timing, and approved expenses before payment. The 50% managed-worker split is specific to that worker category; it is not a universal service commission wearing a new hat.

Fixed-price and digital-delivery context: the repository catalog includes a 10,000-targeted-business-lead package with a $71 reference price, targeting by industry and geography, and CSV/Excel/CRM-ready delivery; it also describes optional enrichment and DNC scrubbing. Any future routed version will need an approved sourcing and use scope, delivery terms, and current pricing. This is an example of an existing catalog offer, not a blanket approval for every data or outreach request.

Flexible budgets: the catalog documents 999 Flex Credits for $19.98, 5,000 for $100, and 25,000 for $500, intended to budget worker hours and approved project expenses. Flex Credits, COOLest Points, and microMoney are different products with different purposes. We will not imply they are interchangeable balances or invent a conversion rate because three things have the word credits somewhere near them.

The planned controls include invitation and review, service-specific terms and fee disclosures, delivery standards, and continued approval. We may decline, pause, or remove offers that fail those standards or applicable platform requirements. Explore the MattyJacks service families or view the shop’s fixed-price collection for current catalog context.

This category covers physical products shipped by suppliers, warehouses, or people fulfilling orders from home, including print-on-demand and dropshipping integrations with Selfnamed.com, Printful.com, and additional approved suppliers. Each product should explain who fulfills it, where it can ship, production and delivery estimates, variants, pricing, and relevant return terms. “It is in the supply chain” is a location in the same sense that “somewhere on Earth” is a delivery window.

The existing merchandise range is already delightfully specific

The MattyJacks catalog documents 28+ original apparel and accessory items, with an illustrative $17.95–$40.14 range in that catalog snapshot. Examples include Work In Progress oversized tees; Astronaut Cosmic, Carved In Time, Irezumi Koi, Raccoon 70s, Pixel Gaming, Doodle, Melting Mood, and Cherry Bomb designs; Aesthetic Malfunctioning, Stellar Motion “Do It Scared,” and Cyber Streetwear hoodies; Midnight Sakura desk mats; Celestial Mandala mouse pads; imPOSSUMble iPhone cases; retro synthwave totes; Russell hats; mugs; and napkin sets. Prices, sizes, variants, stock, and shipping are governed by the current product page. A hoodie can say Work In Progress without becoming a binding estimate for the software team.

The shop catalog also describes custom POD merchandise and Shopify store launches: creating an original brand range and its storefront. Acquiring a shirt belongs in Buy Cool Stuff; hiring someone to design the range or build the store belongs in Hire Certain Services. One arrives in a parcel. The other needs a brief.

Printful.com is part of the planned supplier mix; the existing shop automation plan also considers Printify. Supplier selection, supported products, and routing will depend on the actual item, region, quality, and fulfillment arrangements. We will connect order status and tracking where supported and keep supplier failures visible to management, because forwarding an error message to the customer is not the same service as shipping a mug.

Browse the existing print-on-demand collection or full shop catalog for merchandise context.

This is the special category. Matt’s time starts at $500 an hour for him actually doing what he is told, instead of doing whatever he wants whenever he wants. His normal operating system permits a generous number of self-assigned side quests. This offer lets a client purchase priority for an agreed objective. For once, the founder’s attention has a statement of work.

MattyJacks’ broader offering includes high-level technical architecture, websites and custom software, AI workflows, fractional CTO advice, venture planning, and executive consulting. The Matt-specific booking will clarify the assignment, rate, minimum booking if any, availability, preparation, and expected output before payment. The starting rate is $500/hour; a particular engagement may cost more, and agreed expenses or additional scope need their own terms.

You are hiring focused professional time for an accepted brief. You are not acquiring Matt, purchasing control of the company, or buying a lifetime veto over his next idea. The premium feature is that your task goes on his calendar with a reason to remain there. Please bring a brief worthy of the hourly rate; “hop on a quick call and we’ll figure it out” is an unusually expensive discovery methodology at this altitude.

Planned booking will link to MattyJacks and the relevant Matt profile or offer so clients can review the work and request the right engagement. No present availability or checkout integration is implied by this roadmap.

shop.mattyjacks.com is the planned primary way to accept payments for microMoney. The acquisition funds usage of supported API calls, AI tokens, server resources, and storage space. microMoney will also support Stripe in the future for easier payments. Shopify-based shop checkout is the primary planned route; Stripe is an additional future payment route. Neither connection is being announced as live here.

AI tokens represent model usage; API credits cover supported metered operations; server resources cover supported compute; storage covers supported capacity and retention. The actual allocation, rates, model or provider availability, limits, and storage duration will be disclosed in the relevant package or usage terms. Buying microMoney will not imply that every future model, unlimited GPU time, and infinite storage are included. Infinity remains a difficult SKU for the finance department.

The planned flow is to choose a package, identify the intended GiveGigs account, complete payment, and receive the credited resource balance after the order is verified. Receipts, account history, balance updates, usage deductions, failed-payment handling, and refund or reversal rules need to stay connected. A retried payment notification must not create a second credit deposit. We enjoy abundance; accounting generally prefers it to have a source.

microMoney buys digital usage; COOLest Points buy advertising; Flex Credits budget managed execution. A balance in one does not automatically buy the other two. The shop integration will make those distinctions visible at purchase and in account history. Resource usage will connect to the existing microMoney dashboard and its supported tools as fulfillment is implemented.

We plan to turn our relationships with manufacturers, dropshippers, print-on-demand suppliers, screenprinters, laser engravers, and a wide variety of other custom-item producers into a coordinated way to get exactly the items you want. Bring a finished design, a logo, an elaborate specification, or an idea that currently exists as three screenshots and a sentence beginning “Okay, hear me out.” We can help turn it into something you can actually hold, wear, ship, give away, or sell.

The range includes corporate giveaways, corporate swag, employee welcome kits, corporate uniforms, office and home items, clothing, mugs, hats, bags and backpacks, pens, stickers, business cards, and sooo much more. Think embroidered apparel, printed merchandise, engraved gifts, branded desk accessories, coordinated event kits, and packaging that looks as though the brand guidelines survived the journey to the factory. Your logo deserves better than becoming a slightly different company every time someone prints it.

Design it here. Customize it properly. Approve what will actually be produced.

GiveGigs already includes drawing and design tools, the Image Studio, and SVG vectorization. The planned custom-item workflow will connect those starting points with our designers and production partners for highly customized artwork, layouts, colors, placement, personalization, and production-ready files. We can adapt a concept for the actual method: screenprinting, embroidery, laser engraving, POD printing, or a manufacturer’s particular specifications. The same file does not automatically become suitable for every process merely because someone named it final_FINAL_use_this_one.png.

We want design approvals to cover the parts that matter: the underlying item, material, color, size range, artwork version, imprint area, decoration method, packaging, and quantity. Personalization can extend to individual employee names, roles, locations, event editions, or customer-specific details where the supplier supports it. A well-managed uniform program should produce a recognizable team, rather than a longitudinal study of dye variation.

Quality-control runs: small quantities, real addresses, useful feedback

We can organize small sample and quality-control runs shipped to ourselves, the purchaser, or a custom address such as a customer’s. Check the real object for print and engraving quality, materials, fit, color, finish, packaging, shipping experience, and suitability for its actual job. Collect feedback, revise the design or supplier instructions, and approve the next run. A mockup can explain the concept. It cannot explain why the backpack zipper has chosen early retirement.

That feedback loop can support a single personal item, a limited corporate run, or a commercial product range: create the concept, order a small amount, inspect it in context, improve it, and then expand the order. Supplier minimums, sample costs, production constraints, lead times, and shipping costs will be quoted for the particular item. We will coordinate the route that fits the job, including one-off production where supported, rather than treating a 5,000-unit minimum as an appropriate answer to “one hat, please.”

Your products, your storefront, our operational homework

We plan to support dropshipping and order integration with a client’s own Shopify store, WooCommerce/WordPress shop, Next.js storefront, HTML storefront, or another existing commerce system. Depending on that store and supplier, the work can include product and variant setup, personalization inputs, order routing, inventory or availability updates, tracking, notifications, billing, and customer-service workflows. We can build the required commerce functionality behind a custom storefront as well. An attractive Buy button is a promising beginning; the rest of the sentence is fulfillment.

We can also create a custom employee-only storefront with access controls and tracking, or a polished public-facing storefront for customers. Employee stores can include approved item ranges, sign-in and permissions, department or location access, allocation and approval rules, and records of who ordered what and where it went. Public stores can support branded product pages, checkout, customer accounts where needed, shipment updates, and support. The CEO’s ceremonial hat can have a restricted audience without requiring a password on the hat.

The ambition is a well-designed, fully functional, managed storefront with billing, customer service, supplier coordination, and fulfillment included in the agreed package. The business sets the goals, budget, brand, and approval rules; we handle the recurring operational work and bring back the decisions that actually need its attention. We want minimal problems and almost no routine time consumed by the business. “Passive” should describe your involvement, not the supplier’s response to a missing order.

Acquire vs Hire: Buy Custom Items is where you acquire the finished custom goods. If the engagement also needs original artwork, a store build, ongoing management, or engineering, those services will have a clear scope and price alongside the items. Start with an item, audience, quantity, design direction, budget, and desired delivery date; we can coordinate the people and production path around it. When the product itself needs to be invented, the next category is where the ambition gets its own engineering budget.

We want to help clients design products from scratch, make deeply customized products, invent new things using our engineering skills, coordinate new product launches, and scale what works. The starting point can be a customer problem, a better version of a familiar object, a new physical product, a connected device, a custom business tool, or a product combining hardware, software, and services. Bring the ambition. We will help give it requirements, prototypes, suppliers, a launch plan, and somewhere for the invoices to go.

This goes beyond putting your logo on an existing object. The planned offering is a coordinated path from concept to product: research, design, engineering, prototyping, sourcing, manufacturing preparation, quality control, branding, commerce, distribution, customer service, and growth. We want the person with the idea to have access to the team needed to make it real, without first completing an unpaid graduate degree in managing twelve vendors who all believe the thirteenth vendor is responsible.

1. 1. Define something worth making

   Identify the user, problem, use case, existing alternatives, desired advantage, target price, and success criteria. Turn the vision into a product brief with requirements, constraints, assumptions, and a development budget. “Everyone will want one” is an excellent mood. We would also like to meet the first ten customers.

2. 2. Engineer the product and its economics

   Coordinate industrial and mechanical design, CAD and technical drawings, material selection, electronics and firmware where needed, software, integrations, and the specialist engineering the project calls for. Consider usability, assembly, maintenance, packaging, shipping, production cost, and unit economics together. A beautiful object that costs $80 to ship into a $40 market has discovered a particularly elegant way to lose money.

3. 3. Prototype, test, learn, repeat

   Build proof-of-concept versions, mockups, functional prototypes, or small experimental runs. Coordinate fabrication methods such as 3D printing, machining, laser cutting, custom assembly, or supplier sampling as appropriate. Put prototypes in front of real users, record the feedback, test the assumptions, and revise. A prototype is allowed to be imperfect. That is why we give it a name other than inventory.

4. 4. Prepare it for repeatable production

   Work with manufacturers and specialists on specifications, bills of materials, tooling, tolerances, production methods, minimum order quantities, quotations, and quality criteria. Coordinate relevant product testing, labeling, and certification requirements with qualified providers where needed. Specify project ownership, design-file handover, and tooling arrangements in the engagement. The factory should receive a specification, not an opportunity for personal interpretation.

5. 5. Run a pilot before placing the heroic order

   Produce a controlled first batch, route samples to the agreed reviewers or customers, inspect consistency, test packaging and delivery, and work through defects or usability problems. Approve revisions and acceptance criteria before expanding production. Finding a problem in twelve units is product development. Finding the same problem in twelve thousand units is a logistics-themed memoir.

6. 6. Launch the whole commercial experience

   Coordinate the brand, product name, positioning, packaging, photography, demonstrations, video, product copy, pricing, storefront, checkout, order routing, launch campaign, and customer-support materials. Bring in the relevant GiveGigs workers and approved MattyJacks services, including creator content where it fits. A launch deserves more than a product photograph and a founder posting “huge news” four times into the same algorithm.

7. 7. Connect delivery and customer experience

   Organize the right mix of direct shipping, dropshipping, warehousing, home fulfillment, or third-party logistics. Connect the client’s sales channels, tracking, support, returns workflow, inventory planning, and billing arrangements. Help the customer understand the product and help the business understand its customers. The first sale is exciting; the second sale arriving without a rescue operation is a business model.

8. 8. Scale the product, the operation, and the next version

   Use actual sales, margins, lead times, defects, returns, support requests, and customer feedback to guide reorders and improvements. Coordinate additional suppliers or capacity, larger runs, new variants, bundles, wholesale opportunities, and new markets when the evidence supports them. Build toward an entire product line, repeatable launches, and a business that can grow beyond the founder personally discovering every shipping label.

One coordinated effort, from the sketch to the next production run

We want to connect GiveGigs talent, MattyJacks management, our manufacturing and customization relationships, and the shop’s commerce capabilities into a practical product-development engine. A project can need engineers, designers, programmers, sourcing specialists, manufacturers, content creators, operations people, and customer support at different stages. Our role can include selecting the right team, coordinating handoffs, tracking dependencies, managing supplier communication, and keeping the commercial goal visible while everyone works on their piece. The organization chart should not become the product’s principal obstacle.

For a physical-and-digital product, that can mean coordinating the object, its firmware, an app or web dashboard, a customer account, documentation, and a way to order or reorder it. For a new consumer line, it can mean original designs, a sample program, packaging, supplier arrangements, brand videos, and a functioning store. For a business invention, it can mean a specialized tool, custom equipment or accessories, or a workflow product built around a problem the client understands unusually well. We want room for ambitious ideas, including the ones that do not fit neatly into a wholesaler’s dropdown menu.

Hire invention; acquire the resulting product. Development work, prototypes, samples, tooling, production, launch services, and ongoing operations will be scoped and priced for the project, with staged approvals and agreed responsibilities. The plan can start with a paid discovery or prototype phase and expand as the evidence improves. You can commission just the next useful stage or a coordinated program through launch and scaling. An ambitious roadmap deserves checkpoints; otherwise it is just a very expensive way to take the scenic route.

The long-term ambition is substantial: help someone go from “this should exist” to a tested product, a real supply chain, a credible brand, paying customers, and a scalable operation. We want to help build the item, the launch, and the machinery of the business around it. Acquire the future, with a bill of materials.

We plan to offer a dedicated range of GiveGigs and MattyJacks branded products, including a MattyJacks hat, a GiveGigs shirt, and plenty more ways to represent the platforms in the physical world. You have used the tools, met the people, or developed an unusually strong opinion about a search sort. We would like to offer appropriate clothing for this stage of the relationship.

Tons of design options are planned: different graphics, logo treatments, typography, colors, garment styles, and placements, from understated branding to a design that answers “what are you working on?” before anyone has asked. We want options for people who prefer a quiet mark on a good hat and people who believe a shirt is underperforming if it does not contain a thesis. The range can grow into hoodies, mugs, bags, desk accessories, stickers, and other branded items as designs and suppliers are approved.

The idea is a recognizable collection for workers, clients, creators, contributors, teams, and anyone who simply likes the designs. Future drops can explore platform themes, community references, founder designs, and limited editions alongside dependable everyday pieces. A GiveGigs shirt should be something you actually want to wear, rather than the commemorative fabric rectangle you receive after attending a webinar.

Acquire the platform’s designs here; commission your own in Buy Custom Items. Platform Swag is the home for GiveGigs and MattyJacks branding. Buy Cool Stuff continues to cover the wider merchandise range, while Buy Custom Items handles personal or business-specific designs. Product pages will show the available artwork, sizes, colors, materials, prices, and fulfillment details as the range launches. Buying the hat grants ownership of the hat. The board seat remains a separate conversation.

We plan to make professional GiveGigs business cards automatically generated and fully customizable through the givegigs.com/link feature. Your chosen destination, automatically generated QR code, and complete card design should come together immediately, ready to review and customize before ordering. Introduce yourself, hand someone the card, and give their phone a direct route to the useful part of the conversation. “Let’s connect” can finally include instructions that survive the walk to the parking lot.

The existing link system already supports GiveGigs and MattyJacks destinations, specific GiveGigs pages such as worker profiles, campaign tags, and generated QR assets. GiveGigs Cards will extend that foundation into a complete business-card design and ordering workflow. The goal is a finished layout you can see immediately, rather than an order confirmation followed by a small creative hostage situation.

Your introduction, automatically assembled and entirely adjustable

Start with the link you want to share and generate a professional design around it. Planned customization includes your name, role, business or brand, selected public contact details, logo or portrait, colors, typography, layout, card front and back, and the wording around your QR code. The short printed link should remain readable alongside the QR, so people can connect even when they prefer typing to conducting a camera-based field experiment. Choose a ready-made design, personalize it, or take the artwork further with GiveGigs design tools and our designers.

Order through us, or take the design to your preferred printer

Download the full design for use with other manufacturers, including Staples for a potentially fast local printing option, VistaPrint, another printer you already use, or a printing company we arrange an affiliate link with. We plan to provide the artwork and relevant production details so you can choose the route that fits your deadline, location, quantity, finish, and budget. Availability and turnaround will depend on the selected printer. Any affiliate printing links will be identified when offered; the roadmap does not imply an existing partnership with those example companies.

The download should be useful outside our own checkout, with the complete approved design and the chosen printer’s requirements for dimensions, bleed, safe areas, resolution, and file format accounted for. Our ordering route can coordinate production and delivery; the independent route lets you take the files elsewhere. You are acquiring a business card, not entering an exclusive relationship with a rectangle supplier.

First rollout: cards for MattyJacks outreach contractors

The first intended use is handling GiveGigs Card orders for outreach contractors MattyJacks hires to promote GiveGigs and MattyJacks. The planned workflow will connect each contractor’s approved link and campaign, branded design, review, quantity, delivery address, and reorder process. Contractors can take a credible physical introduction into real conversations while the team can keep track of which materials and campaigns are being used. We would like outreach to have a supply chain more sophisticated than “can someone bring whatever is left in the glove compartment?”

Before a batch is printed, the workflow should check the selected destination, QR readability, printed link, artwork, and production proof. Small sample runs can help evaluate legibility, finish, and scanning before larger orders. Existing page privacy and link permissions still apply, and campaign reporting should use the link system’s actual attribution rather than pretending every scan is a distinct person or an earned commission. Good cards make an impression. Good reporting resists the temptation to count that impression three times.

Eventually: tap, scan, connect, and possibly pay

The longer-term ambition includes NFC tap-to-open cards, RFID-based options for compatible readers, and other quick-scanning formats alongside QR codes. A future card could connect someone to the same professional or referral destination through a supported phone tap, camera scan, or reader interaction, with the format and compatibility explained on the product page. The objective is to spend less of the introduction troubleshooting the introduction.

We may eventually explore a GiveGigs Card that also functions as a credit or debit card. That is a separate, exploratory future direction requiring suitable issuing and payment partners and its own product terms; it is not a current banking feature or an announced card program. NFC networking and payment capabilities would be developed and described separately. Paying for lunch and introducing yourself could eventually share a piece of hardware, while remaining two admirably different reasons to hand someone a card.

Acquire the card; hire design help when you want more. The core experience is an immediately available, customizable design tied to your GiveGigs link, with a clear choice to download or order. Additional design work, special materials, larger outreach programs, and advanced card technology can have their own stated scope and price as they become available. Start with a professional introduction that works today’s way; build toward a remarkably capable little piece of tomorrow.