For freelancers and agencies

Marshal finds client work as well as jobs. Choose Clients, as a freelancer or Clients, as an agency when you set up, or any time in Settings → What you're looking for. Switching only changes what counts as a match; everything you've saved, applied for or pitched stays.

Where the work comes from

• Clients' own requests: the "Seeking freelancer" posts in Hacker News's monthly thread, where founders and companies ask for help directly.
• Contract, freelance and part-time roles: from Hacker News's "Who is hiring?", the remote job boards, and employers' own career pages.
• Your own alerts: forward the project emails Upwork, Freelancer, PeoplePerHour, Contra and LinkedIn already send you (see Project alerts). Every project in them is scored with everything else. Nothing is read from those sites directly: you forward what they send you.
• Anything you find: paste it into Check a project, or press Save this job in the browser extension.

Your profile

Add the roles you take on (for example "Shopify Developer"), what you sell (your services), your minimum rate (like "$40/hr" or "₹1,500/hr") and links to work to show. Work that pays less than your minimum is flagged in the quick check, and on Pro its score is capped, with the reason.

Proposals

Open a project and press Write my proposal. You get the proposal itself, a short first message, how the work would go, the questions to ask before you quote, the work of yours to point to, and what to watch out for.

• On Free, the proposal is a template built from your profile: fill in the [brackets] and it's ready.
• On Pro, the AI writes it for that exact project, from your real experience. It never invents clients, results or prices: a price is always left as [your price] for you to fill in.
• Agencies write as "we".

Pitching

Under Reach out you'll see any email address written in the post itself (often how Hacker News posters want to be contacted), then the addresses on the company's website. Marshal writes the email and opens it in your own Gmail or Outlook, ready to send; you press Send. It drafts the follow-ups when they're due and your answer when the client replies. Nothing is ever sent for you.