We have some news we are genuinely proud of. Arham Abid, the founder of GHLStarboys, has been named a winner in HighLevel's 2026 awards. His name sits on HighLevel's official LevelUp awards page among this year's Marketplace Award winners, listed alongside names like Make, Extendly and Pabbly Connect.

For a team that spends its days quietly building and running GoHighLevel for other people's agencies, being recognised by HighLevel itself means a great deal. Here is what the award is, what it recognises, and what it means if you trust your GoHighLevel to us.

What is the HighLevel LevelUp award?

The LevelUp awards are HighLevel's annual recognition of the standout contributors across its ecosystem, the top SaaS entrepreneurs, affiliates, apps and marketplace partners. Winners are published on HighLevel's official awards page and earn the right to walk the stage at LevelUp, HighLevel's flagship event each October, and take a photo with co-founders Shaun, Varun and Robin. It is HighLevel putting its own name behind the people doing the best work on its platform.

What was GHLStarboys recognised for?

Arham was named among the 2026 Marketplace Award winners. The Marketplace awards cover categories like Most Popular App, Top Revenue Generator and Community Champion, recognising the partners and people the HighLevel community rates most highly. To be listed there, next to tools and names that thousands of agencies rely on every day, is recognition of the work the whole GHLStarboys team has put in rather than any one person.

How the LevelUp awards work

These are not pay-to-play badges. The LevelUp awards run across several programs, the SaaSpreneur awards for software entrepreneurs, the Affilionaire awards for affiliates, and the Marketplace awards for the apps and partners the community relies on, each with their own tiers and eligibility. Winners are published on HighLevel's awards page, and the recognition is physical: you walk the stage at LevelUp in October, collect the award in person, and take a photo with the co-founders. The first award is free for winners who attend, and the trophies ship out after the event. In other words, it is tied to actually showing up and to a standard HighLevel sets, not to a form you fill in.

Why this matters if you run on GoHighLevel

When you hand your GoHighLevel over to a team, the honest question underneath it is simple: can you trust them. An award from HighLevel itself is about the clearest answer to that question you can get, because it is the platform recognising the people who build on it best. We are already the team behind 1,200+ agencies, with 350+ vetted experts. Being recognised by HighLevel on top of that is the outside confirmation of something our clients already see in their accounts.

Practically, it means the team setting up your funnels, automations and fulfilment is not a random freelancer you are hoping works out. It is a HighLevel-recognised operation that does this at scale, which is the whole point of working with a real GoHighLevel expert rather than learning it the hard way yourself.

The company we are keeping

What makes this one land is the names on the list beside ours. Make, Extendly and Pabbly Connect are tools and teams that serious agencies use every single day. Being named in the same 2026 awards as them is not something we take lightly, and it sets the standard we hold ourselves to for every account we touch. The award gala takes place at LevelUp, the same flagship event we wrote about in our LevelUp 2026 guide.

Thank you

An award like this is never one person. It belongs to the 350+ experts on the team who do the real work in real accounts, and to the agency owners who trusted us with their businesses long before any trophy. Thank you. We will keep earning it one well-built account at a time.

Beyond GoHighLevel, Arham also runs Mastermind Pakistan, a coaching community where he helps founders and freelancers build real businesses and sharper offers. A lot of the hard-won platform and sales experience behind this award is exactly what gets passed on there.

If this is the platform you want to build your own business on, you can start there too. GoHighLevel runs a free bootcamp that extends the standard trial to 30 days and walks you through the core setup, which is a genuinely useful way to learn the platform the right way from day one.

Disclosure: the bootcamp link above is an affiliate link. GHLStarboys may earn a commission if you sign up through it, at no extra cost to you. The trial extension and bootcamp are provided by HighLevel.

Questions people actually ask

What is the HighLevel LevelUp award?

It is HighLevel's annual recognition of the top contributors in its ecosystem, including SaaS entrepreneurs, affiliates, apps and marketplace partners. Winners are published on HighLevel's official awards page and are invited to walk the stage at LevelUp, the platform's flagship event each October, and meet its co-founders.

Is GHLStarboys a HighLevel award winner?

Yes. GHLStarboys founder Arham Abid was named a winner in HighLevel's 2026 awards, listed among the Marketplace Award winners on the official LevelUp awards page alongside names like Make, Extendly and Pabbly Connect. It recognises the work of the whole GHLStarboys team across 1,200+ agencies.

What is LevelUp?

LevelUp is HighLevel's flagship in-person event, held each October, where the community gathers for talks, workshops and the awards gala. Award winners walk the stage and take a photo with HighLevel's co-founders. It is where HighLevel celebrates the agencies, apps and partners doing the best work on the platform.

Why does a HighLevel award matter when choosing a GoHighLevel agency?

Because it is the platform itself vouching for the team. Anyone can call themselves a GoHighLevel expert. A HighLevel award is independent recognition that the team builds on the platform at a high standard, which is exactly the reassurance you want before handing over your funnels, automations and client accounts.

The bottom line

We are proud to be named among HighLevel's 2026 award winners, and prouder still of what it represents: a team that has quietly become the one HighLevel recognises for building on its platform well. If you want that same team running your GoHighLevel, that is exactly what we do.

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