Run India's AI talent marketplace from day one.
Gvika is where businesses hire AI freelancers, agent builders, AI film makers and mentors, buy agents they can try before they pay, and run AI challenges. You run it, sell it and earn from it. Professionals and businesses pay a yearly plan; Gvika takes no commission and never holds clients' money.
gvikaAI changed what freelance work is. Gvika is built for the new work.
The problem
Freelance sites take 10–20% of every contract, sell proposal credits and drown good people in copy-paste AI spam. Businesses can't judge an agent or an AI film before paying, and nobody says who owns AI output.
Who buys
AI professionals subscribe for a profile with a Skill Passport, a store and milestone contracts. Businesses subscribe for the Brief Builder, jobs and internships, the Arena and CRM. Both pay the same yearly plans. Anyone hiring one person uses it free.
How it earns
Subscriptions only, billed by STARTIONS LLP with GST invoices. Gvika never holds money: every milestone is paid from the client to the professional's own payment gateway.
Demand for AI work is rising, and so is the mess.
Market figures as reported in 2026 coverage of Upwork and Freelancer.com data (selfemployed.com, forklog.com); treat them as directional. Gvika's answer to the mess: verified profiles, demo runs, Proposal Shield and the AI Licence Passport.
Nine features no freelance site has together.
A sharp, dark-ink site on gvika.com: every professional gets a profile and a store, every business a hiring desk, every client a safe way to pay for progress.
Skill Passport
One checkable page per professional: verified credentials, paid contracts delivered on time, Arena wins and certificates.
Try before you buy
Agents and workflows show recorded demo runs, the monthly cost to run and what a person checks before hand-over.
AI Licence Passport
Ownership, commercial and resale rights, AI disclosure and data used, on every listing and every contract.
Proposal Shield
No pay-to-apply. Proposals are scored for relevance; text pasted into many jobs is flagged and sorted last.
Brief Builder
An idea becomes deliverables, testable acceptance criteria, milestones and a fair budget in a minute.
The Arena
Businesses post real AI tasks with a rubric; professionals compete; winners get verifiable certificates.
Milestones, paid direct
Each milestone goes to the professional's own gateway, before work or on approval; 7 quiet days and it approves itself.
Care plans
Builders sell monthly upkeep with their agents: one-off sales become recurring income.
AI Skills Index
What India is hiring for in AI, week by week, from anonymous counts. A reason to come back.
Dispute room
Both sides' statements, the scope and the delivery; students recommend, STARTIONS decides.
Internships with certificates
Businesses post AI internships; finished interns get a certificate anyone can verify.
Private by design
Messages encrypted; professionals' notes in their own database; students see profiles and totals only.
Pain points of AI professionals, solved
- Fees: 0% commission, one yearly plan
- Spam: Proposal Shield ranks real answers
- Proof: Skill Passport and Arena wins
- Late pay: upfront milestones, client trust scores
- One-off sales: care plans for recurring income
- Visibility: store, search, Field Notes, Select
Pain points of businesses, solved
- Vague briefs: the Brief Builder
- Bad hires: verified profiles and Arena tasks
- Black-box agents: demo runs and run costs
- Rights: the AI Licence Passport
- Scope creep: priced change requests
- Budget: the AI spend tracker
For people hiring one person
- Free client account
- Order a package from a store
- "Hire directly" with milestones
- Pay the professional, never the platform
- Approve, ask for changes or dispute
- Reviews only from paid work
You run it from Nirmata.
Gvika runs on the STARTIONS kit. Its startup panel in Nirmata is where the team works; contract messages and professionals' notes stay private.
Marketplace board
Supply by category, the store, businesses, jobs, proposals flagged as copies, contracts, disputes and skills in demand.
Credential checks
Open documents by a 10-minute link and the issuer's own check, recommend; STARTIONS verifies.
Professionals and Select
Verification, badges, trust scores; STARTIONS awards Gvika Select to Ultra Premium professionals.
Businesses and job reviews
Verify businesses; review jobs from unverified ones before they reach the board.
Store moderation
Hide deepfakes, scraped data or copied work; the AI Licence Passport at a glance.
Dispute room
Read both sides and the delivery, recommend an outcome; STARTIONS decides.
Arena
Post Gvika's own challenges, score entries and publish winners; review business challenges.
Packages and prices
Founders and Co-Founders edit the six packages; every change is audit-logged.
Two kinds of customers, the same three plans.
- Profile at gvika.com/you with a Skill Passport
- 10 store listings: services, agents, workflows, films, art
- 10 job proposals a month, never pay-to-apply
- Milestone contracts paid to your own gateway
- Everything in Standard
- 50 listings, 40 proposals a month
- Care plans: monthly upkeep income on agents and workflows
- Hourly contracts with a time log
- Everything in Premium
- Unlimited listings and proposals
- Gvika Select review and home-page features
- AI studio: profile, listings and proposals drafted
- Brief Builder: an idea to a scoped brief in a minute
- 3 open jobs, Proposal Shield on every job
- Milestone contracts with change requests
- Find, shortlist and message verified talent
- Everything in Standard
- 15 open jobs, invite-only jobs
- AI internships with verifiable certificates
- 1 Arena challenge at a time
- Everything in Premium
- Unlimited open jobs, featured jobs
- 5 Arena challenges at a time
- Workflows, dashboards and custom fields (CRM)
Professionals and businesses pay the same yearly prices, as set in Nirmata today (the prices in the Gvika design; to be confirmed). STARTIONS can change them at any time; Founders and Co-Founders edit packages too, and every change is audit-logged.
What a Student Admin does.
Find
Bring in AI freelancers, agent builders, film makers and mentors; find businesses, clinics, D2C brands and agencies that need them.
Onboard
Demo Gvika on the live sample studio, start free trials, help professionals publish a store with demo runs.
Verify
Check IDs and certificates, moderate the store, mediate disputes, run Arena challenges.
Grow
Upgrades to Premium and Ultra Premium, business plans, renewals, new categories and the Skills Index audience.
Students never create tenants, change plans or read contract messages: professionals and businesses sign up on gvika.com, and every plan change comes from a verified payment.
Everything a founder needs, from day one.
Your Nirmata panel
Gvika's startup panel: marketplace board, credential checks, businesses, job reviews, store moderation, disputes, Arena, packages and finances.
Business email on gvika.com
yourname@gvika.com for every outreach and onboarding call.
Free tech support
The STARTIONS tech team runs hosting, payments, updates and fixes. You run the business.
Premium Bitrix24 CRM
Your pipeline of professionals and businesses, tasks per role and invoices, synced with the kit.
A domain
gvika.com with certificates handled for you.
Brand logo and identity
The Gvika look: deep ink, violet to teal, gold accents, glass cards, across the site and the workspace.
A live product ready to sell
Profiles, stores, milestone contracts, the Brief Builder, Proposal Shield, the Arena and the Skills Index are built. Your job starts at the first professional.
Four roles, one profit pool, paid to students.
100% of Gvika's net profit goes to its students; STARTIONS takes none of it. Each role has a share of the pool, split equally among that role's seats and paid once a year after the financial year ends, as Startup Execution Remuneration with TDS deducted.
Founder
Leads Gvika, owns the sales targets and the team, prices and edits packages, sits on the Finance Committee.
Co-Founder
Runs a department (Sales, Marketing or Operations) with the Founders, prices and edits packages, sits on the Finance Committee.
Teammate
Runs a sub-team such as Customer Onboarding, Support, Online or Branding & Content. Views packages.
Intern
Learns inside a department alongside the team. Views everything; earns the experience and the certificate.
Five consecutive paid years with an active seat earn ownership: 11% shared by Founders, 11% by Co-Founders and 11% by Teammates, growing 20% a year on your dashboard certificate. A Mega startup can take a ₹1,00,000 STARTIONS loan for operating costs on a unanimous vote of all 36 seats.
Who is already on the team.
This chart reads Gvika's seats from Nirmata. A seat turns "Taken" the moment its payment is verified, so what you see open is open right now.
Seats and yearly fees by startup type, with the readiness discount
| Startup type | Founders | Co-Founders | Teammates | Interns | Seats | All seats, a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly seat fee | ₹97,200 | ₹72,900 | ₹40,500 | ₹18,000 | ||
| With readiness, 30% off | ₹68,040 | ₹51,030 | ₹28,350 | ₹12,600 | ||
| Solo | 1 | — | — | 5 | 6 | ₹1,87,200 |
| Micro | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | ₹3,96,000 |
| Mini | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 18 | ₹7,92,000 |
| Major | 3 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 27 | ₹11,88,000 |
| Mega This one | 4 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 36 | ₹15,84,000 |
Fees in INR, the same for every type, plus 18% GST. Seat fees are STARTIONS' income, not the startup's revenue. Each student chooses manual or automatic yearly renewal.
- Founder 80–100
- Co-Founder 60–79
- Teammate 40–59
- Intern 0–39
Clear the readiness test, get 30% off your seat.
Take the free Startions Readiness Score test: ten questions, about three minutes. Your score places you at a level, from Intern up to Founder. If your level matches the role you apply for, or is higher, you get a flat 30% discount on that role's annual seat fee.
| Your score | 30% off these seats |
|---|---|
| 80–100 · Founder level | Founder ₹68,040, Co-Founder ₹51,030, Teammate ₹28,350, Intern ₹12,600 |
| 60–79 · Co-Founder level | Co-Founder ₹51,030, Teammate ₹28,350, Intern ₹12,600 |
| 40–59 · Teammate level | Teammate ₹28,350, Intern ₹12,600 |
| 0–39 · Intern level | Intern ₹12,600 |
For example, a score of 65 is Co-Founder level: you get 30% off a Co-Founder, Teammate or Intern seat, but not a Founder seat. A score at Teammate level gets 30% off a Teammate or Intern seat only. Discounted fees shown are a year, before 18% GST. Your best result of the last 30 days counts, one result discounts one seat, and that seat keeps the discount every year you renew it. Your first attempt is free, and you can retake the test up to five times.
What a seat could pay back.
Move the sliders. Professional and business plans are Gvika's revenue (ex-GST); approved costs come off; a tax reserve is kept aside; the rest is net profit, split into the role pools and shared per seat. Both sides pay the same prices, so one mix covers both.
Plans: Standard ₹4,995 / Premium ₹9,995 / Ultra Premium ₹19,995 a year, ex-GST, as set in Nirmata today. Revenue counts in the month it is paid. Each role's pool is split equally among its seats, assuming every seat is filled; a role with fewer students pays each of them more. Paid once a year, after 31 March, with TDS deducted. A loss is not paid out and carries forward.
Money customers pay the startup each month, 24 months
An illustration from the numbers you set, not a promise. Income depends on the customers your team signs and keeps.
Four steps to your first professional.
Book a clarity call
Thirty minutes on Gvika, the open seats, the readiness discount and what your first 30 days look like.
Pick your role
Founder, Co-Founder, Teammate or Intern, and the department you will run.
Take your seat
STARTIONS invites you; pay the seat fee and get your Nirmata login, gvika.com email and Bitrix24 CRM.
Start selling
Sign up AI professionals on free trials, bring businesses to the Brief Builder, launch the first Arena challenge.
Before you apply.
Do I need to be an AI engineer?
No. The product, hosting and payments are built and run by STARTIONS. You find, onboard and support professionals and businesses; credential checks and moderation follow written guides, and STARTIONS makes the final calls.
Does Gvika handle clients' money?
No. Clients pay each milestone straight to the professional's own payment gateway. Gvika earns only from yearly plans, billed by STARTIONS LLP with GST invoices. That keeps it out of escrow regulation and keeps professionals' earnings whole.
Who owns what?
The startup and the product belong to STARTIONS; students run it in their roles. Five consecutive paid years with an active seat earn ownership, as described above.
Can I read contract messages?
No. Messages are encrypted and professionals' notes live in their own database. Mediators in the dispute room work from both sides' statements, the scope and the delivery.
What is the readiness discount?
Take the Startions Readiness Score test: if your level matches the role you apply for, or a higher one, you get 30% off that role's yearly seat fee (see the seat table above).
Is income guaranteed?
No. The calculator is an illustration from the numbers you set. Results depend on the professionals and businesses your team signs and keeps.
Ready to run Gvika?
Book a clarity call and we will walk you through the open seats, the pricing, the readiness discount and your first 30 days.