Anarblink was built to fix one specific problem: people do the work and then have to chase the money. Ask anyone who has painted a flat, moved furniture, cleaned a house or fixed a car for someone they met online. The work gets done. Then the phone stops being answered, or the amount changes, or the money arrives in pieces over three weeks, or it never arrives at all. The person who did the labour carries all of the risk, and they are usually the person who can least afford to.

So we built the platform around the payment rather than the listing. An employer puts the money in before the worker starts. It is held by TradeSafe, a licensed South African payments company registered with the Payment Association of South Africa — not by us, and not by the employer. When the job is done and accepted, it is released. If the employer disappears, the money is still there. If the work is never done, the employer gets it back.

That single change moves the risk off the person who can least carry it. A worker can turn up on a Saturday morning knowing the money already exists. An employer can hire a stranger knowing they are not paying for a promise.

We are a South African company, registered with the CIPC, working in rands, under South African law. We charge a percentage of completed work and nothing else — no listing fees, no subscriptions, no charge for applying to a job. If nobody gets paid, we do not get paid.