Assured Labor creates an intelligent mobile marketplace to rapidly connect employers with workers. The service drives efficiency and transparency into labor markets around the world allowing workers to earn more and work in safe environments. The company targets honest employers who need a fast and simple way to find good workers, and trustworthy workers who are predominately connected via their mobile phone.

Assured Labor differs from existing services in four major ways:

1.  Mobile: Optimized for mobile phones using text-messaging and automated voice in addition to the web. Mobility allows workers to respond rapidly to job opportunities and automated voice allows even illiterate workers to benefit from the service.
2.  Trustworthy: Utilizes partnerships, referrals, social networks and user ratings (similar to eBay's ratings) to create a "database of trust" that assures workers and employers that they can trust the other party.
3.  Intelligent: Using MIT technology Assured Labor's sends only the right jobs to the right worker and the right candidates to employers.
4.  Global: An elegantly simple solution designed for users in underserved niches in the United States and in emerging markets around the world. The core platform has been built to operate in any language or city around the world.

Assured Labor began in the United States and plans to rapidly expand into emerging markets where the opportunity is even greater. By the end of 2009 over 4 billion people will have a cell phone yet only 1.5 billion will have access to the internet.

Founded in 2007, Assured Labor's founding team consists of labor policy, wireless, software, marketing, operations and start-up experts from MIT and Harvard and is advised by renowned business and academic leaders. The team was a semi-finalist in the MIT 100K competition and winner of the MIT IDEAS business plan competition. For more information please visit www.AssuredLabor.com.