So what is it exactly?: A rideshare app like Uber, only the drivers are armed & dangerous. Apparently it's meant to be a response to human trafficking. Personally I'd be more, not less, afraid of being human trafficked by my pseudo-taxi driver if I knew he had a gun, but then I don't live in the PvP zone that is Austin, Texas.
Long have I thought that weird gig work would be a wonderful thing to base a modern-set campaign on, whether that be fantasy, horror, or otherwise - see the manga Ura Baito: Toubou Kinshi for an example of how that might be set up - each session you get some job offers, with certain risks and reward levels for each, and in between sessions you get hammered with expenses that push you into more and riskier jobs, over time you get familiarized with the employers, other gig workers as competitors and potential allies, and so on and so on.
A BlackWolf-style app is a distillation of this game mode. You have a car. You have a gun. You have some sort of military/police/security background, and some reason you are doing one of the shittier jobs available instead of sticking with that, or maybe you made up your background and are stealing valour. Maybe you've got some buddies that ride with you. Get someone or something from point A to point B, someone or something that's expected to need an armed escort, yet can't or won't rely on the police or private security or whatever.
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