Talent marketplace

Gebeya Go

Matching African builders with global opportunities.

Gebeya Go brings mentors, talents, and hiring teams into a single pane of glass with real-time messaging, analytics-rich dashboards, and automated billing flows.

Problem · Approach

The challenge

Hiring teams struggled to track candidate readiness across markets, while talents needed clear visibility into learning paths, mentorship, and project assignments.

How we solved it

We shipped a role-based workspace on Next.js 15 and Supabase—leveraging SSR for fast dashboard loads, background queues for matching, and a shared design system for web and Android parity.

Impact at a glance

Active users

50k+

Talent + hiring teams onboarded across four regions.

Dashboard load

<800ms

Median page load after ISR caching and analytics hydration.

Placement growth

3.2x

Increase in successful matches quarter over quarter.

What made the difference

Role-based dashboards

Custom home surfaces for talents, mentors, and hiring partners with tailored KPIs and tasks.

Realtime messaging

Supabase channels back a Slack-like inbox with read receipts, message history, and moderator tooling.

Automated billing

Integrated payment flows reconcile payouts and receivables per partner contract with analytics export.

Delivery timeline

Discovery & Research

Interviewed hiring partners and mapped the onboarding gaps leading to a unified talent journey.

MVP Release

Launched dashboards + messaging in 8 weeks with incremental Supabase migrations.

Scale

Added analytics, billing, and self-serve onboarding while maintaining <1s perceived load times.

Results

The marketplace grew to 50k+ active members with sub-second dashboard loads, supporting weekly talent placements and automated invoicing across four countries.