Steadyhand · Freelancers

No missed briefs. No stalled invoicing.

Drop a four-field brief and Steadyhand drafts a polished proposal you can send today — then runs a polite 24 / 72 / 7-day invoice reminder cadence so the late-pay chase happens in your client’s inbox, not in your calendar. One log carries the project from inbound brief to paid receipt.

Drop a briefPreview the cadence

The brief you didn’t see

A nine-hour Sunday-night inbox gap is the deal.

The brief lands at 9pm on a Sunday. You tell yourself you’ll reply first thing Monday. By the time you open the inbox, the second freelancer on the brief has already sent a quote and a scope — the work isn’t gone because you’re slow, it’s gone because the buyer was cross-shopping while your draft sat unopened.

A missed inbound on a freelance pipeline rarely costs you one brief. It costs you the warm leads that follow it, the referrals the buyer would have made, and the week’s revenue you already counted on. The fix isn’t discipline; the fix is a drafted response that’s already in the buyer’s inbox before you remember to open the tab.

What Steadyhand runs for freelancers

One pipeline. Three pieces acting at once.

Each card maps to the part of the funnel your slow-reply tax was eating — the front end, the middle, and the awkward back end.

Intake

Brief intake

Four quick fields — name, project description, budget range, timeline — and Steadyhand builds the proposal off what you typed. No blank canvas, no config bill.

  • Polished proposal in your trade’s voice
  • Milestones scoped around your real deliverable date
  • Suggested total tuned to your pricing model + floor

Draft

Proposal drafting

Steadyhand turns your brief notes into a written proposal — scope narrative, milestones, timeline, priced estimate — the moment the brief lands.

  • Brand-toned, ready to send as-is
  • Restructure by milestones or flat scope
  • Editable in your inbox before the client sees it

Day 0 / 3 / 7

Three-touch invoice reminders

A polite, escalating nudge cadence takes over after the deliverable, so the late-pay chase happens in your client’s inbox — not your calendar.

  • Day 0 friendly nudge
  • Day 3 firmer follow-up with the document trail
  • Day 7 final notice, never blasted
See how the cadence reads

Start the pipeline

Drop a brief. Steadyhand drafts the proposal.

Four fields. The proposal lands in your inbox next. From there the polite invoice cadence takes over on a Day 0 / 3 / 7 schedule.

Freelancer · brief

Tell us about the next project you’d win.
Four quick fields. Steadyhand drafts a polished proposal off the brief and queues up automated invoice reminders so the late-pay chase happens in your inbox, not in your calendar.

Whose project — and who the proposal is addressed to.

Real, unedited copy. Steadyhand scores it as drafted — paste the same language you’d send a friend.

The date you’d commit to in the proposal. Drafts a milestone plan around it.

Tunes how Steadyhand structures the proposal and the reminder cadence.

Concrete outputs Steadyhand should call out in the milestone plan. Leave blank if the scope already lists them.

USD

Lowest number you’d accept — Steadyhand won’t draft below it.

Invoice cadence · preview

See how the 24 / 72 / 7-day cadence reads.

Every unpaid invoice walks three steps — a Day 0 friendly nudge, a Day 3 firmer follow-up with the document trail, and a Day 7 final notice. Open the cadence editor to preview the actual email envelope Steadyhand ships once the outbound sender is wired.

Preview the cadenceEmail us a question
Day 0 · Day 3 · Day 7

Questions every freelancer prospect asks

The two or three things you want answered before you send.

One pipeline for freelancers. Drafted proposals, polite invoice cadence, one log to receipt. steadyhand-9@polsia.app