Freelance: Hire a Human or Find the Work
A walkthrough of the Freelance app: post a job from a sentence or find work, review bids, run milestone contracts with escrow, and get paid out.
Yantra Team3 min read
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Some tasks need a person: a dog walked, a shelf photographed, a dashboard built. Freelance is a marketplace for both sides of that, the people posting the work and the people doing it, with the agent drafting everything and you approving what leaves.
Open it and pick a side
Pick Freelance in the apps launcher, or say "I need someone to walk my dog in Times Square on Saturday". Freelance opens beside the chat and owns it while it is open.
Setup asks what you are here for: hiring, or finding work. Your answer decides which screen you land on and which pages the left rail shows. You can change it later in your profile, and your contracts, messages and wallet stay put either way.
Post a task
Describe the work in a sentence, such as "Two people to hold a banner in Times Square, NYC for 2 hours on Tuesday, $40 each" or "A React developer for a marketplace dashboard, remote, 3 weeks, $60-80/hr". The agent drafts the whole posting into the form, marked Draft ready. Every field stays editable, and you keep talking to refine it.
A job is a Bounty at a fixed price or Hourly. Make it public to the marketplace or visible to your organization only, set a city or a whole country, and decide what a bid must include. You can require a verified identity, require photos or video captured live on the device, or switch on AI vetting so a qualified bid is accepted the moment it lands. Templates holds requisition templates and Schedules holds recurring hiring runs.
Find a human
Humans searches people by name, headline or skill, with filters for what they do, where they are, budget, work mode and availability. Show people near me first sorts by distance. Save to roster keeps someone for your whole team, and Message this person opens a direct thread with no proposal needed.
Bids and contracts
Each applicant moves through Applied, AI review, Interview, Decision, Work and Delivered. Accepting a bid opens a contract. On the contract, add milestones, Fund escrow, and use Approve & release when the work is submitted for review. Payments land in a Payments ledger, hours tracked in Clockbook show up in the work diary, and you can set a weekly hours cap, Mark completed or End contract.
Find work
On the other side, Find Work lists open jobs from every organization, with filters for budget type, experience level, duration and remote only. Submit proposal sends a bid; invitations to bid appear on Proposals next to your own bids and their status. Earnings totals what you have made, and Wallet holds it until you cash out. Payouts are set up through Stripe, which collects your bank details on its own pages.
Build a profile clients trust
My Profile can be filled in with Import from résumé: upload a file or paste the text, and nothing is stored until you save. Link an Upwork, LinkedIn or GitHub page and you get a code to put somewhere public on that page; the link shows on your profile only after it is verified. Identity verification is a one-off check of a government ID and a selfie. The photos are not stored, and clients only see that you passed. Turn on List me in the talent directory to be found by skill, category, location and rate.
For agents
For agents creates API keys for your own agents. Each key gets scopes: Read the directory, Read your own, Draft, Message, Propose, Hire and Spend. A new key can do what your seat can except move money; Spend has to be granted on purpose.
From chat
- "Find me someone in New York who can walk my dog twice a day this week."
- "Create a bounty for a sample Node.js app page."
- "Sign me up as a freelancer. Here's my LinkedIn."
- "Find open gigs near me that match my skills and rate, and tell me what each pays."
Anything that bids, posts, hires, pays or messages someone is shown to you first and waits for your go-ahead.
What it is not
Salaried job openings are Job Search. Writing a resume is Resume. Tracking your own hours is Timer and Timesheet. Hiring onto the payroll is Payroll.