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Use case · Subcontractor network

The network you've built over a decade. On a screen instead of in a head.

A custom roster app: skills, rates, availability, prior projects, feedback. Match a brief to the right freelancer in minutes. Contracts auto-issued, payments auto-scheduled, the next brief comes back cleaner. We integrate DocuSign, Stripe, Xero.

time to shortlist
repeat-book rate
freelancers, finally findable
Live signal
2–6 wks Build, fixed price2.5 d → 35 min time to shortlist38% → 64% repeat-book rate90 days Stabilisation included
What's in the build

Six pieces, one workflow.

Find the right freelancer for the job. Brief, contract, payment, feedback — one loop, owned.

01 · Roster directory

Searchable. Tagged. Honest.

Every freelancer in your network: skills, rates, last-worked date, project list, feedback score. Tags for niche skills the spreadsheet can't capture. Search returns the three best matches, not the alphabetical list.

  • Skill tags + free-text search
  • Rate cards in profile
  • Last-worked timestamp
  • Three-best-match return
02 · Brief-to-shortlist

Brief in, candidates out.

Operator drops the brief; the app surfaces the freelancers who match. Prior performance weighted. Availability checked. The shortlist arrives in your inbox, not after a Friday afternoon.

  • Auto-shortlist by brief
  • Performance-weighted ranking
  • Availability check inline
  • Shortlist email digest
03 · Contracts

DocuSign on accept.

Freelancer accepts the brief; the contract is generated from your template, sent through DocuSign, signed both sides. The work doesn't start until the paper does.

  • Template-driven contract
  • DocuSign integration
  • Both-sides signed gate
  • PDF in roster file
04 · Payments

Stripe / Xero on milestones.

Milestone-based payments scheduled. Freelancer hits milestone; the app triggers the invoice in Xero, the payment via Stripe (or your bank). Late-payment chasing automated.

  • Milestone scheduling
  • Xero invoice trigger
  • Stripe payout integration
  • Late-payment chase
05 · Feedback loop

After every job, a clean form.

End of project, both sides rate. Quality, communication, delivery vs deadline, would-rebook. Feedback rolls into the freelancer's profile — and into the next match.

  • Two-way feedback form
  • Profile score update
  • Re-book intent capture
  • Used by next-match
06 · Network health

Who's busy, who's burning out, who's growing.

Live dashboard: utilisation per freelancer, repeat-rebook rate, delayed-projects flag, fastest-growing tag. The network is an asset; the dashboard treats it like one.

  • Utilisation per freelancer
  • Repeat-book rate
  • Burn-out flag
  • Tag-growth analytics
Sample engagement

The agency that found its best people on the spreadsheet they were ignoring.

180 freelancers. Three project managers. A shared sheet.

A 30-person creative agency ran a freelancer network of ~180 names on a spreadsheet, with PMs picking by memory. Time-to-shortlist: 2.5 days. Repeat-book rate (a proxy for quality match): 38%. We shipped a custom roster app integrated with DocuSign and Xero. Three months in: time-to-shortlist down to 35 minutes, repeat-book rate up to 64%, and three previously-unused freelancers became top-ten by utilisation.

How we measure: Time-to-shortlist measured from brief-raised to shortlist-sent (n = 84 projects pre/post), repeat-book rate measured as % of jobs going to a previously-used freelancer over a 90-day window.

2.5 d → 35 mintime to shortlist
38% → 64%repeat-book rate
180freelancers, finally findable
Industries this is built for

Where this build earns its rent.

Most-relevant verticals — but the same shape works for adjacent ones.

Find the right freelancer in minutes.

We map your network, ship the match flow, wire your contracts.