

After 20 years in the AEC industry, including building and exiting an engineering firm while in the process earning 5 consecutive spots on the Inc. 5000, Brian Sullivan saw the same problem everywhere:
Firms needed flexible staffing, but reliable freelance talent was nearly impossible to find.
Hiring full-time felt risky.
Freelance platforms lacked verification.
Deadlines didn't wait.
GigBench exists to solve this.
Our mission: Help AEC firms scale without over-hiring and help AEC professionals find meaningful, high-quality work.
Traditional hiring is too slow for AEC project cycles
Generic freelance sites don't validate credentials
Firms lose revenue because they can't staff fast
Engineers and architects want flexible, quality work — not job board noise

With two decades inside architecture and engineering firms, Brian has seen the realities of reactive hiring and unpredictable workloads firsthand—and through conversations with dozens of AEC firm owners, he learned these challenges weren’t unique, but systemic across the industry.
He built GigBench because the industry needed a better, more trustworthy way to build flexible teams — one that respects both the complexity of the work and the value of the professionals doing it.
