Sought: Work that seeks you

The brief arrives finished.

Budget, scope, hours, timezone and the reasons you matched — in the message, before you answer. Nothing to write, nothing to bid.

PITCH · NEWEU / CET

Rebuild a booking flow

€11,000–15,000 · 8 weeks · 25h/week

Why you: manifest-verified React and PostgreSQL across 4 repositories.

PITCH · NEWUK / GMT

Payments dashboard, phase two

€9,000–12,000 · 6 weeks · 20h/week

Why you: TypeScript evidence in every repo we could see, fresh this quarter.

PITCH · NEWEU / EET

Move a Postgres schema off a single node

€6,000–8,000 · 4 weeks · 15h/week

Why you: PostgreSQL manifest evidence, and your hours match the need exactly.

PITCH · NEWUS / EST

Design system in production code

€13,000–17,000 · 10 weeks · 25h/week

Why you: React and Tailwind evidence across two long-running repos.

REPLY SENTDECLINED

Analytics rewrite

€7,000 fixed · 5 weeks

Declined with a reason: timezone need too tight. No penalty, no ranking hit.

REPLY SENTACCEPTED

Rebuild a booking flow

€11,000–15,000 · 8 weeks

Accepted. The conversation opens with the brief already agreed.

REPLY SENTASKED

Internal admin tooling

€5,500 fixed · 3 weeks

Asked one question about scope before answering. Still no proposal to write.

REPLY SENTACCEPTED

Payments dashboard, phase two

€9,000–12,000 · 6 weeks

Accepted at the stated rate band, with hours already agreed.

No black-box scores

Six weighted components, deterministic arithmetic, every number traceable to a reason. Change the brief below: the scores move, and so does who the client gets shown at all.

Try it yourself

The briefYours to change

Required skills

A geometric mean, not an average: one required skill nobody can evidence drags the whole 40 points down.

Weekly commitment 25h/week

Availability is squared below a full fit, so partial hours cost more than linearly.

Implied budget band €55–75/hr

A fixed budget over duration × weekly hours; the freelancer's own band is matched against it.

Engagement

Preferred skills — bonus only, never redistributed

Required-skill evidence is not a knob: it is whatever the repositories say. The client picks which skills a brief requires; the repositories supply how strong each one is. Everything else here is the client's own brief.

Score decomposition · Elena VasilevaManifest evidence, 4 repos

Required skills ×40 Manifest-verified React, TypeScript and PostgreSQL across 4 repositories 0.527 21.08

Preferred skills ×15 Arithmetic mean over Tailwind CSS 0.545 8.18

Rate fit ×15 €55–68/hr against an implied €55–75/hr band 1.00 15.00

Availability ×10 20h available against 25h required, squared for partial fit 0.64 6.40

Timezone ×10 8h of working-day overlap against a 3h bar 1.00 10.00

Engagement ×10 Preference matches the project exactly 1.00 10.00

Match score Sum of its own reasons, exactly 70.66/100

Ranking on this brief3 matches

Two ways off the list: scoring under 40, or having no usable evidence on a skill the brief requires. Either one drops a candidate — as long as somebody clears the bar. When nobody does, the client gets the closest candidates instead, labelled as such and still carrying every gap. Ten rows at most, either way.

Skills carry their evidence

Every skill is labeled by where we saw it: verified from real repositories, or self-reported. Same size, same weight; only the label differs.

Scores are measured, not awarded

The same project and the same profiles always produce the same score: arithmetic you can audit, not a model's mood.

Gaps are stated plainly

Where the fit is thinner, the match says so: calm facts, never alarms. Both sides decide with the same information.

For freelancers 3 steps

Get found, get pitched

Set your profile and rates

Skills, availability and timezone: the things clients filter on.

Turn on open to offers

You enter client searches instantly. Turn it off anytime.

Reply to the good ones

Every pitch names why it's you. Accept, decline, or ask.

For clients 3 steps

Reach people who'd say yes

Search by real criteria

Skills, rate, availability, timezone: only people open to work.

Send a pitch, not a post

One brief to the person you want, with a note on why them.

Start when they accept

No shortlist to wrangle. A yes means you're ready to go.

The short answers

Common questions

Do freelancers ever apply?

No. Clients describe a project, see ranked matches, and send pitches. You reply to the ones worth your time; there is nothing to apply to.

What's inside a pitch?

The project's full details (budget, scope, logistics) plus the reasons you matched and a personal note on why you specifically. Enough to say yes or no in one read.

Can I say no without consequences?

Always. Decline with an optional reason, or flip off "Open to offers" and disappear from searches entirely; flip it back anytime.

Who sees my profile?

Clients only see profiles that have been reviewed and approved, and your work summary only after you've approved it yourself.

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