Gida · Housing Intelligence

Matching tenants and operators in 72 hours or less. Zero showings. AI-powered.

Gida is the predictive AI infrastructure for the rental market, built to help operators find high-commitment tenants today's platforms are not built to see.

50+ placements · $30K+ revenue · Proven before code · Raising $1M pre-seed

50+Placements
$30K+Revenue
0Showings
72hrTo confirm
🏆 Veterans United Housing Innovation Prize · Winner (2026) 🌍 The Residency, Vienna · Founder (2026) 🎓 UChicago Social New Venture Challenge · Semi-finalist (2025)

Founder conviction

I have been every person Gida serves. I have seen what happens when the system has no intelligence.

I have moved across the US for school, for work, and internationally. Every time, the housing process broke down. Qualified but rejected. Great listings that never matched. Endless showings that led nowhere.

As an operator, I have been ghosted. I have watched inventory sit idle. I have 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. They simply had no housing. I have 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 have worked in social services, higher education, and recruiting. 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.

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Bisola-MariamCo-founder & CEO, Gida

Traction

What we proved before building.

Every number below was generated manually, before writing a single line of code. That is not a prototype. That is product-market fit.

50+
Placements
confirmed
$30K+
Gross revenue
in 7 weeks
$600
Avg placement
proven offline
0
In-person showings
not one

The zero-showing proof. Every placement confirmed on video. Tenants committed based on a walkthrough they watched from another country. Operators held contractually to what was shown. Zero-showing is proven behavior, not a hypothesis.

Why Gida cannot be copied

Every other platform starts with listings. Gida starts with intelligence.

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, 1099 income, enrollment deposits, PCS orders. Commitment data that tells operators who is coming before they search. That is the moat. Not listings. Not filters. Prediction before demand, and placement before friction.

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Compatibility engine

Scores every match on budget, dates, furnishing, and location before it is ever surfaced.

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Predictive engine

Reads commitment signals like offer letters, PCS orders, and enrollment deposits to predict demand before tenants search.

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Trust infrastructure

Org partners pre-trust tenants. Circe verifies operators. Both sides arrive ready, not guessing.

How it works

One platform. Five personas. One broken system solved.

Sky

Tenant · International intern

Moving for a tech internship with a hard start date and no time to tour. Circe reads her offer letter and visa approval, completes one intake, and surfaces three verified matches. She confirms on a video walkthrough from another country.

✓ Sky confirmed housing in Nairobi before she left Stanford. She never set foot in Kenya before her move-in date.

Ada

Invited tenant · Protected arrival

First US arrival. No local network, and data at risk. Her org partner creates her account and sponsors her onto the platform. Circe guides her step by step. She never navigates alone, and her identity is protected until placement confirmation.

✓ Placed without exposure. The org partner tracks every step from one dashboard.

Officer Vince

Military tenant · PCS move

PCS orders, 30 days, family of three, hard reporting date. Circe reads BAH, base proximity, and family size, then matches against verified operators near the new posting.

✓ Family placed in 57 hours. No leave days burned on showings.

Rebecca

Org partner

Coordinating 50+ placements at once for the people her organization sponsors. One dashboard, full visibility, bulk onboarding. No more spreadsheets and phone calls.

✓ Every client placement tracked from intake to lease in one place.

Mike

Housing operator

Fifteen units and no qualified pipeline. His Gida inbox fills with tenants arriving from five countries, all Circe-verified, all ready to book. He pays only when a placement succeeds.

✓ Vacancy days down. Zero showings run. Commission only on success.

Zero showings

0

In-person showings. Not one.

Every placement Gida has ever made was confirmed on video. The showing is dead. The video walkthrough is the contract.

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Video is the tour

Operators record a walkthrough. Tenants watch it. Operators are held contractually to what appears in the video. No surprises on arrival.

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Confirmed before landing

Housing locked in before the plane boards, even for first-time arrivals who have never visited the city.

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72 hours or less

From Circe intake to confirmed booking. Not two to six weeks. Not fourteen unscreened showings. One intake. Three matches. One placement.

Built for global movement

From Lagos to Chicago. From Seoul to San Francisco. Circe speaks the language of transition.

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 existed before the product did. These are not markets we plan to enter. They are markets we are already in.

🇳🇬 → 🇺🇸 Lagos → Chicago
Diaspora professionals and students
Active
🇰🇪 → 🇺🇸 Nairobi → Chicago / SF
Tech interns, graduate arrivals
Active
🇺🇸 → 🇺🇸 Base to Base
Military PCS and deployment moves
Active
🌐 → 🇺🇸 Global → US Cities
International students, corporate relocations
Pre-launch
🇺🇸🇪🇺 → 🌍 US / EU → Africa
Returning diaspora and relocating professionals securing long-term housing before buying
Expanding

For investors

Fund the automation of a process that already works.

We are not building to find fit. We proved fit manually: 50+ placements, $30K+ revenue, zero code. Now we automate what works.

$1M
Pre-Seed Round · $10M valuation cap · SAFE · Co-founders on equity
30% Product & AI (Circe build)
25% GTM · Chicago launch
20% Developer hires
15% Market expansion
10% Working capital
$872K

Year 1 ARR target · 30 operators · 4 placements/mo · $600 avg · 0.51% of SAM

24–72hr

Placement promise. From Circe intake to confirmed booking. Already proven manually.

7 yrs

Path to full SOM capture. $170M+ at full SAM penetration. Infrastructure companies compound.

Gida · Housing Intelligence · Pre-Seed Round · Raising $1M at $10M cap · Chicago + Global

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