We have a date. July 7th. Thrilla Early Access goes live.
We will be honest with you - there were moments in the last few months where July felt far away... but it is worth it, and next week we find out what all of it was for.
What Is Opening on July 7th
Thrilla Early Access launches across the UAE, with the wider GCC enabled from day one.
For talent, you will be able to build your verified profile, browse live job briefs, and start applying immediately. The jobs are real. The clients are already signed up and waiting to hire. If you have been sitting on the waitlist wondering whether this was worth the wait, next week you get your answer.
For clients, you can sign up, complete your business profile, and post your first brief from the moment the platform opens. It is free to join and free to post. The creative talent on the other side of that brief is a verified network in the GCC, and they are ready.
Why We Know This Works
We did not wait for the platform to go live before testing the model.
Over the last two months, we sourced and filled 30 roles by hand. Photographers, production crew, models, DJs. Real jobs for real clients, matched and delivered manually while we were still building the product.
5,200 creative professionals joined our waitlist before we opened a single door. 150 businesses signed up to hire talent before they could post a single brief. Those numbers did not come from a campaign. They came from people who recognised that something was broken and wanted to be part of fixing it.
What Comes After Launch
Early Access is the start of something, not the finished version of it.
AI-powered matching, in-platform payments, the Thrilla Talent Score, verified talent badges. These are the features coming in the months after launch that turn a marketplace into proper infrastructure. We will be open about what is live, what is in progress, and what is still being built. The creative industry has had enough of platforms that overpromise. We would rather show you than tell you.
What to Do This Week
If you are a creative professional, go to thrilla.io and join the waitlist today if you have not already. You will be first to know the moment Early Access opens next week. Building your profile and your booking history early is a genuine advantage on a marketplace. The talent who show up first are the ones who get discovered first.
If you are a brand, agency, or production house, do the same. The earlier you are set up, the earlier you can start finding and booking the talent you have been looking for.
And if you have been on the waitlist since the beginning, a genuine thank you. The fact that so many people believed in this before they had seen it kept us going on the days when building it felt hard.
July 7th. See you there.
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