50+ placements · $30K revenue · Pre-code · Raising pre-seed
I've moved across the US for school, work, and internationally — and every time, the housing process broke down. Qualified but rejected. Great listings that never matched. Endless showings that led nowhere.
As an operator, I've been ghosted. I've watched inventory sit idle. I've run showings that signaled nothing and cost everything.
I once slept in a shelter as an Ivy League student — not because I lacked qualification, but because I had a small budget and no fast way to connect to rentals that matched it. At that shelter I met people with cars, jobs, and income — just no housing. I've seen this across every social stratum: a divorced homeowner suddenly back in the market, a family displaced by flooding needing placement in hours, a young professional arriving in a new city with an offer letter and nowhere to land.
I've worked in social services, higher education, recruiting, and with young professionals and protected arrivals. My military friends describe every PCS move as dating — over and over — when an engine could simply think ahead and tell them exactly what and where to go.
Gida exists because I've been every person it serves — and I've seen what happens when the system has no intelligence.
Every number below was generated manually — before writing a single line of code. That's not a prototype. That's product-market fit.
No tenant sees a single listing until Circe completes their intake — qualifying budget, timeline, location, and commitment signals upfront. No browsing. No guessing. No wasted showings.
Operators only see tenants who match. Tenants only see housing they can actually land.
And before any of that — Circe is already reading the signals. Visa approvals. Internship and job offer letters. Enrollment deposits. PCS orders. Commitment data that tells operators who is coming before they search.
Choose a persona. Walk through their journey. See why showings are obsolete.
Every placement Gida has ever made was confirmed on video. The showing is dead. The video walkthrough is the contract.
Gida is not a local listing platform. It is infrastructure for the corridors that global movement creates — and it works before the arrival, not after.
Warm operator relationships in Lagos, Nairobi, and Accra exist before the product does. These are not markets we plan to enter. They are markets we are already in.
We are not building to find fit. We proved fit manually — 50+ placements, $30K revenue, zero code. Now we automate what works.
Gida · Housing Intelligence · Pre-Seed Round
Raising $350K at $6M cap · Chicago + Global
Whether you are a tenant on the move, a housing operator, or an org placing people at scale — Gida was built for you.