Our mission

Rebuilding trust in the African labor market. One job at a time.

We believe that skilled work deserves guaranteed pay, and that hiring a professional should not require a leap of faith. Wrklo is the digital infrastructure making that a reality.

The way it was.

The informal sector has historically been driven by blind trust. Artisans travel miles to quote jobs they never get. Customers pay upfront deposits to workers who disappear. No accountability. No security. Just friction.

The way it is now.

We replaced blind faith with cryptographic escrow and hyper-local matchmaking. With unified identity verification and automated payouts, we removed the anxiety from hiring and the risk from working.

The Wrklo standard

Built on absolute principles.

Radical Fairness.

If the work is done perfectly, the artisan gets paid. If the work is incomplete, the customer’s money is refunded. No biases, just code-enforced fairness.

Hyper-Local Velocity.

Time is money. Our 10km matching radius keeps the talent you need from being stuck in hours of traffic across the city.

Unified Identity.

Whether you are hiring a plumber today or offering carpentry skills tomorrow, your verified identity moves with you.

The people behind the system

Led by builders.

We are engineers, financial-security thinkers, and operations people committed to formalising the informal economy.

OperationsKeeps every job moving from request to release, day to day.

Financial securityOwns the escrow model end to end — how funds are held, and when they're not.

Product engineeringBuilds the matching, KYC, and dispute systems the other three teams depend on.

Field operationsVerifies artisans in person before they ever see a job request.

Thousands of verified jobs completed. And we are just getting started.

The next standard of work

Join the movement.

Build a better way to hire, earn, and finish every job.