10-07-2025
- Business
- The Herald Scotland
Gigged.AI marks 4th anniversary with £1m investment success
Set up in 2021 in co-founder Craig Short's bedroom, marked its fourth anniversary this month with 10 full-time members of staff who since last year have been focused on serving the needs of larger enterprise customers. Fellow co-founder Rich Wilson, chief executive of said this will be the quickest way to scale up sales of the company's Skills Intelligence Platform.
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"Delivering large-scale digital and AI projects isn't really something that happens much to SMEs," he explained. "The problem of tech skills shortages, especially AI skill shortages, is really acute in larger enterprises."
The company, which has raised a total of £3.1m to date, plans to hire further sales, marketing and customer support staff as it builds its presence in the UK and the US. It currently has 12 enterprise clients such as Fortune 500 firms Leidos and Concentrix in the US, along with Aggreko and Arnold Clark in the UK.
The expansion push will be accompanied by the launch of a new feature called Sia (Skills Intelligence Agent), which is designed to help enterprise tech teams instantly find staff with specific digital abilities. Mr Wilson likens it to ChatGPT "for your internal skills".
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"Instead of logging into a dashboard where you normally would with a SaaS platform, the first thing you have is this agent will come up, and you can talk to it, or you can type in, and you can ask questions based on your data," he explained.
"So you can ask it how many .NET developers do I have in my organisation, and it will come back and tell you quickly. You could ask how many people have critical thinking skills - it's just a very quick way to get the information you need, because we realised the user behaviour has changed so much because of OpenAI and Anthropic, people don't want to log into a dashboard any more and spend the time going into that - it's just not happening."
A survey earlier this year by of 300 senior enterprise tech leaders found that 69% are concerned about the tech talent shortage in 2025, while 26% worry they lack the internal skills to fill roles. According to IDC, the inability to secure tech talent will cost organisations $5.5 trillion globally in revenue losses, delays and quality issues.
'The future of work is a fast-growing segment," said Paul Atkinson, a staffing industry veteran and partner at Par Equity. "Over the last 12 months has successfully pivoted to enterprise and is now well positioned to be a category leader with huge market potential.'
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has also joined the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, allowing enterprise customers to procure its Skills Intelligence Platform through their existing Microsoft agreements.
'Making our products available within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem streamlines procurement, accelerates onboarding, and ensures enterprise-grade scalability,' Mr Wilson said. 'It's now easier than ever for large enterprises to deploy skills intelligence with confidence.'
He added: 'We launched four years ago this week and I am excited to announce the fresh funding, our new Agentic AI features and Microsoft Azure listing on this day.
"We are a proud Scottish start-up with ambitions to scale globally. This support from Par Equity, Scottish Enterprise and high-profile angels with a Scottish connection will help propel us forward.'
