My own product

TrabahoLens

An interactive map of more than 500 Philippine occupations, showing which are most exposed to AI and why.

Built for
Researchers, policymakers, and anyone wondering how AI affects Philippine jobs
My role
Founder & Lead Developer
When
April 2026

The situation

Most reporting on AI and jobs is written about American work. It transfers badly to the Philippines, where overseas employment and a large informal economy change which jobs are actually at risk.

What I built

I mapped over 500 occupations to Philippine job classifications, with local wage, employment and informality estimates attached. Each was scored for AI exposure against conditions specific to the country — overseas work, the informal sector, gig platforms, infrastructure. The result is an explorable map you can view by exposure, wage, education, hiring demand, overseas concentration or informal share.

What it lets people do

  1. 01Explore 500+ occupations by AI exposure
  2. 02Switch the view to wages, education, hiring demand or overseas share
  3. 03See why a given job scores as it does under Philippine conditions

Under the hood

The tools this is built with. You do not need to know any of them to use it — open one if you are curious what it does.

How a project goes
  1. We talk about the problem

    Not the software — the problem. What is slow, what gets forgotten, what people keep having to redo by hand. Usually one call is enough to see the shape of it.

  2. I write down what I heard

    In plain language, before any building starts, so you can correct me while it is still cheap to correct. You approve it or you don't.

  3. You see it early and often

    Working pieces, not screenshots or promises. If something is wrong, you say so while there is still time to change it.

  4. It goes live and stays supported

    Hosting, domain and setup handled. The Valley O'Ville site has been running since 2023 — I don't disappear after launch.

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