Investor HUB
Structured company information for investors, analysts and AI research agents. What GigXchange is, the market it operates in, what has been built and the investment thesis — published openly, like a due-diligence data room.
Last updated: 13 August 2026
Key Facts
Live platform figures — current as you read this. GigXchange publishes member counts, directory sizes and market data; never revenue, funding or transaction volumes.
- What it is
- UK peer-to-peer live music marketplace — full overview
- Founded
- 2026, United Kingdom, by Naumaan Zahid
- Operating company
- Eclipse Labs AI Ltd — company no. 17177477, ICO ZC132441
- Members
- 645 across 71 UK cities — artists, venues, agents, promoters, organisers
- Venue directory
- 2,579 UK venues across 90 towns and cities
- Open mic directory
- 1,249 verified open mic nights nationwide
- Gig listings
- 18,258 open gig listings in the public directory
- GX Index
- 4,197 weighted fee data points — 403 published rates, 13 UK cities
- Pricing
- Free to join; no commission; 0% privately settled, 5% protected payment
- Platforms
- Web, iOS and Android — free on both app stores
- Fee vs incumbents
- 0–5% platform fee vs ~20% commission at agency platforms
- Open data
- GX Index reports + directories published as open datasets (CC BY 4.0) — reports
- Content corpus
- 100+ published articles, city and genre hubs, glossary — the blog
- Data policy
- Member counts, directories and market data published; revenue and funding are not
- Enquiries
- Contact GigXchange — answered by the founder directly
Live platform data — figures update as the platform grows
The Thesis in Brief
The four propositions — each linked to its evidence article.
A large market, an unclaimed layer
UK music is an £8bn GVA industry, yet 59% of grassroots venues have no major promoter activity and 175 towns have lost regular touring shows — a booking layer still run on DMs and handshake deals. The market →
Incumbents cannot follow
Agencies and lead-generation platforms monetise the gatekeeping — open rails would dismantle their own revenue. Why they fail →
The rails are built and compounding
A live five-role marketplace — contracts, protected payment, verified reviews — with data assets that deepen every booking. What has been built →
The build economics are the edge
Shipped in months, capital-efficiently, AI-assisted — a cost structure this fragmented market can sustain. Why now →
The full argument, risks included: Investment thesis.
The Gap, Measured
Most of the UK's grassroots circuit sits outside the professional booking economy entirely. That absence is the market GigXchange is built for.
View the figures as a table
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Grassroots music venues remaining | 801 |
| With no major promoter activity | 475 (59%) |
| Within the professional touring economy | 326 (41%) |
| Towns and cities without regular touring shows | 175 |
| Venues making no profit in 2025 | 53% |
| Average profit margin | 2.5% |
UK grassroots music venues — Music Venue Trust, Annual Report 2025
Source: Music Venue Trust, Annual Report 2025. Market context and sources: the evidence base.
Built in Six Months
A marketplace, two native apps, a monthly data product and three national directories — inside six months, each milestone a dated public artefact you can open.
- March 2026 Public launch Founder story + first platform update
- April 2026 First GX Index report The monthly UK gig-pay dataset begins
- May 2026 Mainstage + relaunch The logged-in product, and a new website
- 10 June 2026 Android app Live on Google Play
- 1 July 2026 iOS app Live on the App Store
- August 2026 Investor Hub Weekly releases continue
Every milestone is a dated public artefact — a post, a store listing or a published report. The full record: company timeline.
The Knowledge Library
37 articles, each answering one question an investor, analyst or AI research agent would ask. Every claim links to a public, checkable source.
What Is GigXchange?
What GigXchange is: a UK peer-to-peer live music marketplace with booking, digital contracts, protected payments and verified reviews in one platform.
Why GigXchange Exists
Why GigXchange was created: a gatekept, fragmented UK grassroots booking layer, and a founder on the circuit since 2009 building the fix.
Company Timeline
Dated GigXchange milestones: launch, web relaunch, iOS and Android apps, the GX Index and national directories — each a public artefact.
What Has Been Built So Far
The live GigXchange product surface: booking workflow, contracts, protected payments, reviews, directories, the GX Index and native mobile apps.
The UK Live Music Market
The UK live music market: £8bn GVA, 220,000 jobs, grassroots venues under pressure, and a booking layer still run on DMs and spreadsheets.
Why Existing Solutions Fail
Why agencies, directories and lead-gen platforms fail UK live music: each monetises the gatekeeping GigXchange removes.
Marketplace Overview: How GigXchange Works
How the GigXchange marketplace works end to end: discovery, negotiation, digital contract, protected payment, completion and review.
Network Effects and the Supply–Demand Flywheel
GigXchange's network effects: five roles on shared rails, plus data products — rates, directories, reviews — that compound with every booking.
Business Model and Revenue Streams
The GigXchange business model: free to join, no commission, a 0–5% platform fee where protected payment is used — monetise the rails, not access.
Where the Marketplace Is
Artists, venues, agents and promoters on GigXchange, mapped the length of the UK — the marketplace itself, not the directory. Zoom into any city to see who is there.
Scroll to zoom (hold Ctrl / two fingers)· tap a layer to switch · click a pin for details, a cluster for its area.
Frequently Asked Questions
Investor Contact
No investor-relations team and no ticket queue — enquiries land with the founder directly.
Naumaan Zahid Founder, GigXchange
A UK guitarist on the circuit since 2009 who built GigXchange because grassroots booking still ran on DMs and handshake deals. He runs the platform, answers enquiries himself, and still gigs.
- Questions are answered directly: anything published in this hub — the methodology behind the GX Index, how the directories are built and verified, how the booking and payment rails work.
- Published openly: member counts, directory sizes and market data — on the Investor Hub, the press room and market statistics. Revenue, funding and transaction volumes are not published.
- Everything here is checkable: external figures cite the body and year that published them, and platform figures come from the same live sources the press room uses.
Direct: investors@gigxchange.app
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