Design and Implementation of Localsaathi: A Hyperlocal Employment Platform for Informal Workers

LocalSaathi is a web platform that connects informal workers with nearby jobs and helps local employers find trades-people.We examined its source repository and public deployment.The worker interface offers mapbased search with location, radius, trade, wage, and ranking controls.The codebase includes a multilingual interface and a deterministic recommendation function that applies eligibility checks before combining seven weighted factors.It also defines a Node.jsapplication program-ming interface (API), spatial database models, background jobs, and search integration.Its main design contribution is the explicit separation of eligibility gates from preference scoring, which keeps feasibility constraints distinct from ranking and makes each score explainable.Our inspection could not confirm that every backend service is connected to the public deployment, and we found no field study or production ranking benchmark.The inspected voice handler only simulates transcription, and the available interface languages do not include Bhojpuri.This paper therefore presents an implementation analysis and a reproducible evaluation plan covering ranking relevance, usability, performance, and equity, not evidence of improved hiring or worker outcomes.