For freelancers & solo consultants
You are the delivery team, the sales team and the accounts department
Two things grow a freelance business: finding the next client, and getting properly paid by the last one. Both come down to following up, and following up is the first thing that loses when you are the one doing the actual work.
It is not that chasing takes long. It is that asking someone you like for money they already owe you is genuinely uncomfortable, and circling back on a conversation from three weeks ago feels like admitting you dropped it. So both get postponed, indefinitely.
Free plan on every app, no card, no trial clock.
Where the time actually goes
Both halves of it — the work you never billed for, and the work you never won.
Money is the conversation nobody taught you to have
Freelancers are trained to be easy to work with, and asking to be paid feels like the opposite of that. So the reminder gets drafted mentally on Tuesday and sent, if at all, three weeks later — by which point it is a bigger conversation than it needed to be.
The next client was someone you already met
Almost every gap in a freelance calendar traces back to a conversation that went well and then stopped. Not a lead you never had — one you had, and never circled back on because you were busy delivering for someone else.
Every tool for this is built for a finance team
The established AR products start in the hundreds of dollars a month and assume a credit controller to run them. Nobody builds for a business whose entire finance department is one person with a laptop.
Admin loses hardest in your busiest weeks
When you are the delivery team and the sales team, follow-up loses every time — and it loses worst in the weeks you are most booked, which are exactly the weeks the invoices pile up and the pipeline empties.
What to switch on first
Ordered by what usually costs this kind of business the most, not by our catalogue.
Turns people you should know into people you’re talking to
Prospecting CRM (PCRM)
Build a list of the people worth knowing — the prospects, and the attorneys, bankers and brokers who send work your way. Keep a real record of every conversation, and let the follow-up carry on running after you have moved on to paid work.
Take a lookGets you a yes or a no on every quote you send
Estimate Follow-up
You sent forty estimates last month and twenty-two never got a second look. This one keeps asking, politely, until you have an answer either way — which is worth more than the silence.
Finds the money you quietly stopped charging for
Fee Watch
The job that grew half again and never got re-quoted. The retainer nobody has looked at in three years. The hours that never made it onto an invoice. It reads what you actually delivered against what you actually billed and shows you the gap while it is still collectable.
Turns the businesses next to yours into a source of work
Partner Finder
The realtor, the architect, the general contractor, the agency that does the thing you don’t. They are already serving your customers, and one warm relationship there sends work for years. This finds them near you, says who is worth approaching first, and hands them to the Prospecting CRM once the door is open.
Remembers who sends you work, and keeps that door open
Referral Loop
Most businesses cannot name their top three referrers. This tracks where every job actually came from, tells you when a good source has gone quiet, and prompts the thank-you — or the introduction back — that keeps it coming.
Asks for the review while the work is still fresh
Review Requests
The job finishes, the request goes out — that day, not three weeks later when the goodwill has faded. Timed asks with a direct link to wherever a review actually wins you the next customer.
Collects the receipts and statements without you asking twice
Records Chaser
Ask once, on a schedule. Recurring document requests with automatic reminders and a single upload link, so month-end stops being a week of chasing people for a PDF.
What being eight days faster is worth
- 1 Say you invoice $8,000 a month and a third of it routinely lands late.
- 2 Published research puts freelancers who send reminders about eight days ahead of those who wait.
- 3 That is not extra revenue — it is the same revenue arriving before the rent does.
Roughly $2,600 a month moving out of "owed" and into "paid", without invoicing a dollar more.
Illustrative arithmetic using typical figures, not a projection for your business. Change the inputs and the answer changes.
Try something free first
No account needed for most of these.
Pick the one thing that is costing you the most. Then stop having to remember it.
Every app has a free tier — no card, no trial clock. Switch one on and it starts working this week.