Featured· Founding story
Why we built Helpward
The on-demand economy already exists. We didn't need another marketplace — we needed a marketplace that earned the booking instead of optimising for it.
By The Helpward team · Founders 6 min read
Helpward Blog
Operational thinking from the team building the Human Infrastructure Network. Marketplace design, trust & safety craft, city launches, the case against surge pricing.
Cities Founding story Launches Mission Operations Pricing Transparency Trust & Safety
Trust & Safety
How we vet every helper
The end-to-end path from application to approved: identity verification, background checks, adjudication policy, and the human review that runs through all of it.
Trust & Safety 7 min
Transparency
Transparency as a feature, not a press release
Why we publish a quarterly transparency report from launch, what's in it, and what we'll commit to publishing even when the numbers look bad.
The Helpward team 5 min
Operations
Lessons from launching our first three cities
Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal. What was harder than we expected, what was easier, and what we'd do differently in Seattle.
Operations 8 min
Pricing
The case against surge pricing
Surge solves a coordination problem cleverly. It also passes the cost of that problem from the platform to the customer at the moment they can least afford it. Here's why Helpward doesn't.
The Helpward team 6 min
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