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.
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.