A small studio with a long view on growth.
We are a newly founded software company with one product we care about deeply: onWard. Here is who we are, honestly.
Our story
We started with a notebook nobody read.
GIGS Labs began in 2026 as a two-person side project between friends who kept the same problem: a year of genuine effort that was impossible to point to afterwards. Promotions, applications, performance reviews — all of it asked for proof, and the proof lived scattered across chat logs, half-finished docs and memory.
We are, to be candid, a young company. We are not a giant with a hundred features and a marketing machine. We are a small team that ships carefully, answers our own support email, and would rather do one thing properly than ten things loudly.
onWard is the first product to come out of the lab. It started as an internal tool and became the thing we are proudest of — and we are only getting going.
What we believe
Four things we will not trade away.
Progress over perfection
We build for the messy middle — the person who showed up today, not the one who did it flawlessly. Every decision is judged by whether it helps someone keep going.
Private by default
Your history belongs to you. Nothing leaves your device unless you choose to share it, and you can take the whole story with you whenever you want.
Craft over volume
We are a tiny team, so we ship fewer things and finish them properly. Details you can feel are the whole point of a small studio.
Built here, made for everywhere
GIGS Labs is Nigerian and proud of it. onWard is priced and designed for real budgets and real days — then made to travel well.
Why “onWard”?
Because direction matters more than speed. A small step forward, repeated, is how a career actually moves.
Why document your work?
Most of us do good work that leaves no trace — it gets buried in chat threads and forgotten by review season. onWard keeps each win with its impact and its proof, so the record builds itself while you work.
Why now?
Because we felt it ourselves: a year of good work that nobody — including us — could point to afterwards. onWard is the fix we wanted.
The crew
Small enough that you know everyone.
There is no big department between you and the people who build onWard. When you write to us, one of these four reads it.
Founder & Product
Sets the direction, writes most of the hard no’s.
Founding Engineer
Turns the app into something that survives real use.
Design
Owns every pixel, every empty state, every nudge.
You, maybe
The reason we answer support emails personally.
We are early. Come grow with us.
Try onWard free, tell us what is missing, and help shape a product — and a company — still finding its feet.