Helpers Near Me

Helpers Near Me is like Uber for finding & hiring nearby Blue-collar Workers.

On the one hand, the platform makes it easy, quick, reliable & affordable for millions of Households & Small Business Owners to find & hire nearby Blue-collar Workers.

And on the other, it enables the 500M Indian Blue-collar Workforce in finding local employment directly from nearby Employers, free of cost, without any middlemen in between.

Benefits for Workers:

• Free of Cost
• They don't need to have a smartphone or an internet connection, or digital literacy. 
• They can connect with just an old feature phone and an active mobile number.
• After joining local work starts finding the Workers, not vice-versa
• Workers get to connect with multiple nearby Employers for employment
• No middlemen or commissions involved in between
• Workers get to work as per their preferred work, location and salary
• Workers become a part of the Digital Economy

About 500M Indian Workforce are Unorganized, Less Educated, Technology challenged & do not have any organized means to find potential Work Opportunities, locally. 

Likewise, about 16M Households & about 20M Small Businesses Owners in India do not have a convenient & organized source for finding Blue-Collar Workers locally. 

Globally, 100+ Developing Countries have a similar challenge. Almost in every developing country, for 1/3rd of the population face difficulties in finding local employment. The whole experience is unorganized. And often, the middlemen take undue advantage of the unorganized system - charge money against fake promises of employment, etc.

Collectively the challenges Workers face:

No Choice | Takes long to find work | High reliance on References | Limited reach to potential nearby Employers | Want work close to home | Don’t know much about who hires them | Middlemen exploit them | Pay monthly
commissions to Agents if they get hired through them | No job security | Not educated enough | Have an old feature phone OR a basic smartphone, but don’t know much about how to use it | And now the fear of Covid19

The challenges on the Employers' side are also similar.

WORKERS get calls for nearest employment opportunities, directly from nearby Employers, FREE of cost, without searching for it on the streets or through the middlemen. 

EMPLOYERS get to find & hire the nearest professionally verified Workers, via mobile phones, at a nominal fee of just INR 99-999, in 3 simple steps. 

Process:

Worker Awareness → Workers call us → Call Centre Staff interviews, digitize their profiles, checks their preferences of Work, Salary, Location & onboards them →  Background verification conducted → Workers profiles plotted hyper-locally → Workers profile undergoes automated star rating mechanism → Employers search Workers on www.HelpersNearMe.com → The algorithm digitally matches employer needs with worker profiles locally → Employer is given access to matching worker profiles (barring contact details) →  Employers pay nominal fee →  Platform connects multiple shortlisted workers (6-8) → Employer selects & connect with Workers → Employers directly hire the selected Worker → Workers to accept the work offer or awaits better Employment Opportunity → Employer & Worker is Happy → The cycle runs infinitely.

Thus, Workers keep getting multiple Employment as per the preferred Work, Salary & Location. Thus, making it a sustainable technology-driven ecosystem matching the demands & supplies.

Target Population - Blue-collar Workforce from the bottom of the pyramid

Profiles - Domestic Workers, Restaurant Workers, Factory Workers, Healthcare Workers, School Workers, Salon Workers, etc.

The average monthly income of such a Blue-collar Worker ranges between INR 10,000 to INR 12,000. Collectively husband & wife earns a monthly household income of about INR 20,000.

For such profiles of the Workforce, we believe the mother of all the problems they go through is basically the "Source Of Income". If their source of income is taken care of, most of their other problems in life usually get taken care of - child's education, healthcare, food, etc. 

The solution addresses this very core problem of helping Workers find regular local employment opportunities, therefore giving them an option to find a constant "source of income", as per their preference.

Digital enables everyone to do better & more in life.

What if we enable workers to access the digital economy without an internet connection or digital literacy?

We've designed our solution in a way that allows everyone to find local employment (via the digital infrastructure) without a smartphone or an internet connection. A phone call from an active mobile number is all that's required, from wherever they are located.

We are a technology-based solution helping every BoP worker find local employment via the digital economy - a reason why we believe our solution aligns with the challenge.

We are in the early revenue stage of our business.

So far:

# We have engaged with 54,000+ Employers from all over India

# We have aggregated 49,000+ Blue-collar workers, and

# We have mapped 17,300+ Workers with nearby Employers (80% of them being women workers)

# Thus far, we've earned a decent cumulative revenue as well

Our Product-Market fit has already been established in the Indian market. Once this works here at a national level, a similar or customized model could work in 100+ Developing countries.

Our solution is innovative because nothing like what we are doing has ever been tried for Blue-collar Workers globally.

Including Blue-collar Workers in a digital economy and helping them with local employment without them having access to the internet or digital literacy makes the work even more challenging.

At the workers level, having a proper Education has always been a challenge. And due to low income, technological know-how is an added challenge these days.

While designing our solution, we kept these basic challenges in mind. 

Almost 99% of digital solutions are usually designed, keeping in mind that one can access it through the internet and know technology to access it appropriately.

Our solution is unique because we include the bottom of the pyramid workers in the digital economy without asking them to get digital literacy or internet connection. All we ask them is to have an active mobile connection. So they become part of Helpers Near Me, and hence a part of the digital economy with just a mobile number. 

And once they've joined completely, they start getting mapped to nearby Employers for local employment via our digital app.

We believe these are the reasons why our solution is innovative.

CURRENT Stats:

# Aggregated 49,000+ Blue-collar Workers 

# Mapped 17,000+ Workers with nearby Employers (82% being Women Workers)

# Attracted 53,000+ Employers from all over India

In the next 1 year, we expect the following traction:

Workers Onboarding - 200,000+

Mapping of 80,000+ Workers with nearby Employers

In the next 5 years:

Workers onboarding - 1M+

Mapping of 0.5M+ Workers with nearby Employers

Some of the indicators that we use are (per day):

1. Number of workers mapped with employers
2. Number of workers hired
3. Orders received
4. Number of customers engaged
5. High & Low moving profiles
6. Number of Workers who we spoke to
7. Number of new workers who joined Helpers Near Me
8. Heatmaps

We are about 15 team members at the moment.

Every member of our team either comes from the Blue-collar Workers community or are deeply connected with them.

We believe we can understand and comprehend the Blue-collar workers' problem better than anyone else.

This is one of the big reason why a team of just a few have been able to aggregate more than 49,000 workers thus far, and the numbers are only growing.

Furthermore, the team is led by a founder who has 20+ years of industry experience and a tech-lead who is a geek. Additionally, the team is advised by industry professionals who are also early investors in the company.

Most of our staff are women or girls at the moment. 

We have 2 goals in our mind as we go forward:

1. Majority of our staff & leadership to be women
2. Preferably to be hired from the community - daughters & wives of Blue-collar workers

We want potential stakeholders all over the world to know what we are doing here in India. 

We want to showcase our work to the ecosystem. 

We want to demonstrate how a digital solution can help the low-income group of Blue-collar workers access the digital world to find local employment, that too without an internet connection or digital literacy.  

If we are selected, we would be able to help other 100+ developing countries in adopting the model that we are trying here in India.

Education and Technology is a challenge for 500M Workers in India. Likewise, it is a challenge for millions of workers in 100+ developing countries worldwide.

The SOLVE platform would help us broaden our solution's reach to direct beneficiaries in every developing country.

We need more minds and enough funds to scale our business. The earlier our model reaches the blue-collar workers in every developing country sooner we would be able to help everyone find local employment.

Gates Foundation, Dell Foundation, Clinton Foundation and similar other foundation who are working for the poor and low-income groups worldwide.

We would use the fund to include the refugees onto our platform which could possibly help them in finding local employment.

We would use the fund to help the blue-collar workers in finding local employment in 100+ developing countries, including India where we are present.

One of the primary beneficiaries of our solution is women. 

Everyone who is open to working and looking for local employment can become a part of Helpers Near Me. 

As a matter of fact, till now most of the workers who have received employment via Helpers Near Me, about 80% of them have been women workers.

We would use the fund to help blue-collar workers worldwide in finding local employment.