tl;dr: We’re going public with Grain. Bitcointalk ANN published!

In early 2016, my friends and I started dreaming of a software solution to fix the unfair treatment of the world’s flexible workers (i.e., remote workers, gig employees and those operating on short-term contracts). The solution we envisioned was a full workflow system that would allow organizations to eliminate all the unnecessary and costly administrative layers. In April 2016, we founded Flexentral, and together with a regional venture capitalist we put one million euros on the table to make it happen. Flexentral is now being tested by our first BETA customers.

In the process of developing a secure and scalable transaction solution, the tech team decided to build the system on the block chain and to also add a direct payment mechanism. Thus, GRAIN was created. GRAIN conducts the entire transaction in the most efficient, fair and transparent way and is poised to become the new currency of work.

In our quest to make the world of work more beneficial for all, the next logical step was to create a private retirement fund into which the employer must pay and over which workers have full control. Again, there are no layers in between; hence, we were able to create Harvest, a fund that benefits all GRAIN users.

Long story short, we decided to separate GRAIN from Flexentral into a separate business model, the purpose of which is to serve all software solutions that need an operating system for work, with Flexentral as its first proof of concept.

In our whitepaper you will find the way we think the ecosystem should be built, which is more than just technology; it is creating a new world of work without the burden of organizations that only slice away at rather than add value to labor transactions.

Our entire team is committed to building the largest work movement in labor since workers first formed unions.

Onno Hektor, CEO & President of the board