How this works
GigLookup is a directory of gig and independent work in Ohio and Florida. It was built by a
contractor who needed this information himself and could not find it anywhere in one place — the
listings that turn out to be employee jobs, the ones that quietly charge you before you earn
anything, the ones whose sign-up page died two years ago. This site is the list he wanted.
What "verified" means here
It means one specific thing, and not more than that: somebody fetched the company's own
page and read it. Not a press release, not an aggregator, not a jobs-site summary — the
company's own words about who may apply.
- Every claim on a card carries its own source. Each fact is stored with a level
and a citation, so a sentence on a card can be traced to where it came from. Right now that is
522 claims read from a company's own page, 238 from a company's own
recruiting ad, 8 reported by someone else and labelled as such, and
910 older claims that predate this rule and are marked as unproven rather than
quietly presented as checked.
- Every listing carries a date. All 305 of them. A check is a snapshot,
so the card tells you when we looked instead of implying the answer is permanent.
- A dead link is treated as a defect, not a detail. If a sign-up page we recorded
stops answering, the record may not keep rendering as though the door is open.
What the access states mean
Every listing says exactly one of these, and the wording is enforced rather than chosen:
- Sign up on their own site — 134 listings. We fetched the page and
it is theirs.
- Hires through job listings — 131 listings. They have no public
sign-up page of their own, and they recruit through boards. You get a search to run, because that is
an action you can take today.
- No public sign-up page found — checked [date] — 39
listings. We looked and found nothing. The date is the point: it lets you judge how stale that is
instead of trusting it forever.
- This describes a kind of work rather than one company — 1
listing, where there is no single place to sign up and saying so is the honest answer.
The word yet appears on none of them. It used to appear on records we had already
checked, which promised a door no evidence supported.
What we do not do
- No affiliate links. No referral cut. Nothing is paid to us. When you open a
company's sign-up page from here, you go to exactly the address printed on the card, with nothing
appended to it — no tracking parameter, no partner tag. That is checked automatically against the
live site every time this site is deployed, not promised.
- No pay-for-placement, ever. No company can buy its way onto this site, buy a
higher position, or buy a friendlier description. Listings are ordered alphabetically. Nobody
listed here has been contacted for money, and there is no arrangement to sell.
- We do not hide the bad parts. If a company charges you before you can earn —
per lead, per subscription, per background check — that cost is shown on the card in red, above the
earnings talk.
What a missing listing means
If something is not here, that means we have not researched it yet — not
that it does not exist. This is a list of what has been checked, and it is nowhere near a
list of everything that is out there. A gap is a gap in our work. Pages for areas we have not
covered say so in those words rather than showing you an empty result and letting you conclude
there is nothing near you.
What we are still wrong about
910 claims are marked as unproven because they came from an older method and have
not been re-read from the source. They are labelled on the cards rather than hidden, and the number
only goes down. Publishing that number is deliberate: a limitation nobody can see is one nobody
ever fixes.