As we push to close out this round of funding, I want to share our latest exciting updates exclusively with the Wefunder family.

Back in May, I shared our scalable architecture initiative which leverages the power of the Microsoft Azure cloud, and we had successfully completed this process in June. With this new robust foundation, we are ready to implement our next and biggest innovation to the peer-to-peer marketplace - Instant Verified Live Leads. With this new type of lead, customers and providers connect instantly to make sales and close transactions in a secure and verified process, greatly raising the quality and ROI of leads across the entire SideHustle platform.

Live Leads will be available to all merchants and providers, at no cost, once they subscribe to the Live Lead merchant program. Merchants and providers in this program will have a new set of tools that will allow them to directly engage consumers and close transactions immediately.

This industry-first technology is the key area of focus of our new Product Manager who has come to us from a top premium retailer in the US, which we brought on-board this July. At SideHustle, he will be building upon his decades of marketplace digital transformation knowledge to take our platform to the next level, and beyond.

In these exciting times at SideHustle, we look forward to having all of you be a part of this journey!