The model offered to date is centered around a single individual performing one or more tasks that are largely disconnected from other tasks or others working for the same organization. This focus and approach can be quite limiting to both the organization requiring the work and the gig worker because larger and more complex projects become extremely difficult or impossible to execute. We see the rise of a new model, which we call "rapidly-forming teams" where individual contributors can quickly organize and pull together creative professionals with the necessary skills to tackle larger projects and even extend their value proposition to time and materials billing, while still honoring the spirit and flexibility that gig economy can provide.

       What we discovered was that the administrative burden of establishing these teams can itself become a hurdle to profitability if the project is relatively short-lived because of the time it takes to create the processes and procedures for gathering and presenting time and expense entries. Likely one individual or organization functions as the "prime" contractor to the organization and must collect time and expense entries from the various team members. In turn the team members will then invoice the prime contractor for the work that they do. Sometimes the prime contractor will require that time and expense entry is performed in their own tracking system, requiring the team member to "swivel seat" enter time into both their own tracking system and that of the prime. Aside from the additional work, inaccuracies can arise that are sometimes only discovered at the time of invoicing, after the prime has already invoiced the organization.

        We are constructing a platform that simplifies and streamlines the time and expense gathering process for rapidly-forming teams so that the administrative process is already established and team members can track their time and expenses in their own systems and information flows where it needs to the appropriate tracking and accounting systems used by members of the team.