Investor overview
Grateful Prints connects customers, print shops, designers, crafters and delivery riders in one community-driven printing ecosystem, starting in Iligan City, Philippines.
The investor story
Recorded on the live platform, narrated in Taglish. Captions are on by default.
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The problem
Without a connected platform, a customer coordinates each step separately, with different businesses and chats.
The businesses already exist.
The skills already exist.
The customers already exist.
The opportunity is connecting them better.
The solution
Grateful Prints sits in the middle. Each participant keeps running their own business and uses the platform to reach customers, work together and get paid.
We collaborate, not compete.
The real product
Every screen below is a capture of the live app, not a mockup. One account can switch between roles. Choose a role to see what each participant uses.
Let's Collab!
Customers describe what they need, compare matching listings from local partners, order with pickup or rider delivery, and follow each order.
Let's Print & Grow!
Print shops receive orders, review the customer's files, ask for changes or approve production, and mark orders ready.
Let's Create!
Designers offer bookable design services and sell digital templates that customers buy and download.
Let's Create & Sell!
Crafters and merch sellers list ready-to-order items and made-to-order products next to print services.
Let's Deliver!
Riders take local delivery jobs from partner orders and see their earnings for each completed trip.
How an order moves
The tag under each step shows where Grateful Prints adds value.
Traction
What exists today, with the date each fact was checked.
Web app at app.gratefulprintsph.com. Android on Google Play in the Philippines. iOS version 1.0.4 on the App Store, for iOS 15 or later.
Sources: Google Play and App Store listings, checked Oct 7, 2026Online checkout. For priced pickup and delivery orders, the shop accepts before the customer pays.
Review-first flow live since Oct 2026Rider job offers and per-trip earnings run inside the same platform.
Checked Oct 6, 2026Business tools for print shops, in a pilot with one partner print shop in Iligan City.
Pilot started Oct 2026Where we are honestly. The platform is live and paid orders already move through it. It is early: our focus now is turning registered customers into first orders and growing partner supply city by city. We share verified usage and revenue figures, with their definitions, in the investor meeting.
Business model
Accounts are free. Grateful Prints earns a platform fee only when a paid order is completed, at one fee rate per partner type. Partners keep the rest.
The platform does not need to own presses, inventory or vehicles. It connects capacity that already exists.
A platform fee on each completed paid order. Each partner type (print shops, crafters, designers, digital products and riders) has one fee rate.
The fee table and revenue to date are shared in the investor meeting.
Why now
Printing demand, print businesses, designers, makers, riders and digital payments are already part of everyday Philippine commerce. What is missing is one system that lets them work together.
of registered business establishments in the Philippines are micro, small and medium enterprises. The print shops, designers and crafters we serve are among them.
Source: DTI, 2024 MSME Statisticspeople in the Philippines use the internet, so customers can already order online.
Source: DataReportal, Digital 2026: The Philippinesof retail payments in the Philippines are digital, by number of transactions (53.32% by value).
Source: Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, 2025 Report on E-payments MeasurementWe do not publish a printing market size. No reliable figure exists for it yet, and we would rather show what we can verify.
What makes Grateful Prints different
Neil Saldia
Founder, Grateful Prints
Iligan City, Philippines
Founder story
My goal was bigger than another printing business. I wanted to help the people around printing grow: customers who need things made, print shops, designers, makers and the riders who deliver.
The skills and businesses were already here in Iligan. What was missing was a simple way for them to find each other and work together. So I started building that connection myself, and I still build the platform today.
The whole point of business is to help and develop people.
We build the people first, and people build the business. We collaborate, not compete.
Vision and roadmap
Our vision is a trusted nationwide printing ecosystem where customers and local service providers grow through technology, collaboration, shared opportunities and community impact. Only the first column is today's reality. No launch dates are promised; each stage starts when the one before it is proven.
Long term Vision
Connected printing infrastructure for customers, creators, businesses, production and fulfillment: marketplace, partner network, GP Operating System, payments and delivery working as one system.
Partner with Grateful Prints
We are speaking with a small number of investors who believe technology can help local businesses grow together. The amount, structure and terms of any investment are discussed privately and documented with Philippine legal and accounting advisors.
Categories only. Amounts are set once budgets are verified.
Investor FAQ
The product is live. Customers order on the web app, on Android through Google Play and on iPhone through the App Store, and partners manage those orders in the same platform. You can open it yourself from this page.
A platform fee on each completed paid order, at one fee rate per partner type. Accounts are free. The full fee table is shared in the investor meeting, and planned revenue lines are labeled as planned on this page.
Our partner network is concentrated in Iligan City, where we are building density first. We plan to add partner coverage one city at a time.
Early. The product is built and processing real orders. The current focus is converting registered customers into first orders and growing partner supply. Verified figures are shared in the meeting.
Not today. Ask GP reads the customer's request, asks one follow-up question and shows up to three matching listings. We are exploring AI-assisted features and will label them clearly when they ship.
Grateful Prints is the brand of Grateful Printing Services, a sole proprietorship registered with the DTI and the BIR in Iligan City and owned by founder Neil Saldia. Any investment structure, including the entity it requires, will be set with legal and accounting advisors before an agreement.
No. This page is for information only. It is not an offer to sell, or a request for an offer to buy, any security, and no returns are promised. Terms are only discussed privately.
Start with the Investor Room. Confidential material such as financial records is shared after an introductory meeting and, where needed, an NDA.
