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You text it the gig. Onion writes the proposal in your voice, signs the client, collects every phase — then, like never before, crafts it with you: strategy, tone of voice, guides, etc. All on the intelligence it keeps learning.

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Business.

The part you didn't become a freelancer for — handled end to end. Four months of back-and-forth becomes four days.

Win the work

The hour is now five minutes.

Twenty words to Onion come back as a real proposal — priced, phased, checked against every other project's timeline, written in your voice. You edit a deliverable, cut another, hit send — and the yes comes back a signed contract with the deposit already moving. Five minutes... or less.

WHAT SPLITZZZY ASKED FOR
  • Can Phase 3 lead with the website build instead of the identity system?
  • Also — is the $12,500 flexible if we fold the motion toolkit in?

Onion's ready in the dock — or edit any line of the document below directly.

📝 Splitzzzy asked for changes on the “Splitzzzy Brand & Website Transformation” proposal: • Can Phase 3 lead with the website build instead of the identity system?
• Also — is the $12,500 flexible if we fold the motion toolkit in?

Tell me what to apply, or edit the doc directly — I'll keep this proposal open.

agree on phase 3

Sure — I'll lead Phase 3 with the website build and fold Motion Toolkit in, taking Phase 3 from $9,000 to $13,500. Want me to apply that? (yes / no)

yes

Done — Phase 3 now leads with the website build Motion Toolkit folded in Phase 3 is now $13,500 and I re-ran the payment schedule

Want me to send the updated proposal to Splitzzzy?

yes

Sent — delivered to stacey@splitzzzy.com.

Get paid

Just circling back is a thing of the past.

The awkward part got handled at signing — your client agreed the payment structure and put a card on file as part of the contract. From there, every phase bills itself the day it starts. If a charge ever fails, you're texted straight away and that phase goes on hold — its timer won't even start until the payment clears — so everything delivered is already paid. Nothing left to chase — just the work, delivered on the timeline.

⚠ a charge fails → you're alerted by text and can stop working until it's resolved — the phase's timer won't start

Project scope

Splitzzzy deserves a brand that signals trust, clarity, and modern ease across every touchpoint.

  • Deposit · Aug 14

    Pending
    $12,500
  • Milestone 2 · Sep 6

    Pending
    $12,500
  • Milestone 3 · Sep 29

    Pending
    $12,500
  • Milestone 4 · Oct 22

    Pending
    $12,500
$0 of $50,000 paid✓ auto-collected at each milestone start

Smart timelines

Never double-book yourself again.

⚠ Over capacity · Jul 20–26 · Jul 27–Aug 2

Every commitment across every client sits in one view. Take on a new phase and Onion flags the collision before you agree to it — then proposes a start on your first clear week.

Jul 6
Jul 13
Jul 20
Jul 27
Aug 3
Aug 10
Aug 17
Discovery
Design
Acme rebrand · Delayed⚠ Heads up
Concepts
10 hrs/wk
Load⚠ Over capacity · Jul 20–26 · Jul 27–Aug 2

Time tracking

Hourly work bills itself, every Sunday.

Start a timer from the app or a text. Sunday totals the week and bills the card on file, up to the cap you set — and overage never bills itself, it waits for the client's yes.

Billing by phase instead? Track anyway. When the project wraps you'll know what it really paid per hour — and quote the next one like you knew all along.

Start a timer
Splitzzzy
Juniper
Acme
Expensezzz
Brand Refresh
Splitzzzy App Launch
Splitzzzy Motion Toolkit
Full project
Discovery
Design
Build
Launch

Or tell Onion: “start tracking my time for Splitzzzy”“stop”.

Now tracking
Splitzzzy Brand Refresh · Design
01:47:23
This week: 12h 40m · $1,900 billable · bills Sunday
Splitzzzy Brand Refresh: 8h 15m of 20h cap Splitzzzy App Launch: 4h 25m

When it goes sideways

No lost work. No lost time. No awkward conversations.

A client disputes a charge. Payments pause on their own, and everything delivered so far is already paid — you're covered to the minute. Mediation switches itself on the moment a dispute opens — you can turn it off, but you won't want to: Onion hears both sides from the record — the signed contract, the deliverables, every round of feedback. It gives you its even-keel read in private, asks where you stand, and drafts the response — your client answers through structured feedback, and nothing moves forward until you both sign off. Onion stays level-headed so you never have to get confrontational — or get taken advantage of. The project keeps moving. So does the money.

Dispute Splitzzzy Brand Refresh · Splitzzzy Awaiting your response
What was disputed
Issue
Milestone 3 identity direction
Raised
Oct 2, 2026
Milestone
Milestone 3 · Sep 29
Amount
$12,500
Splitzzzy's note

The Milestone 3 screens don't match what we signed off on. We asked for the warm, group-first look from the strategy deck, and Route B came back cold and transactional — the opposite of the brief. We've held the milestone payment until we can talk through this. Can you show how these tie back to the audit we approved?

Mediation — with Onion

💬 Client Feedback layer is on for this project — Splitzzzy's next round opens once their feedback passes Onion's review.

Here's what Splitzzzy disputed on Splitzzzy Brand Refresh: “Milestone 3 identity direction”, scoped to Milestone 3, with $12,500 held.

Onion · Oct 2, 2:29 PM
Onion is reviewing the dispute against the contract…

My read: show them exactly how Route B connects to the audit, and if the link is thin, say so and offer a focused revision round. Protecting the relationship and getting that $12,500 released is worth one honest reset conversation. Does this match your read of what happened with Route B? Once we're aligned on what you can stand behind, I'll write and send the response to the client.

Onion · Oct 2, 2:30 PM

yes I am ok with that however I will want to activate feedback layer if you recommend I do that and the only way they can get to a next round is once that feedback is deemed good enough via Onion

You · Oct 2, 2:31 PM

Got it — so you want to gate the revision round through Onion's feedback layer, meaning the client submits their feedback, it gets reviewed for quality and specificity before it unlocks the next design round. Smart move; it stops vague feedback loops from eating your time. I'd recommend activating it here — formalizing the feedback step protects you from another misalignment and gives you a paper trail showing the next round was brief-driven.

Onion · Oct 2, 2:31 PM

Which one — off-brief, or defensible as an interpretation? Just need to know which way you're leaning before I draft.

Onion · Oct 2, 6:05 PM

sorry. its off brief but it was based off of their feedback. so I am fine doing another round, but only once concrete feedback is provided through Onion

You · Oct 2, 6:06 PM

Got it — so Route B was actually a response to their feedback, which is important context. You're not conceding a mistake; you're acknowledging a communication gap on both sides. And you're happy to do another round, but only once they submit specific, reviewable feedback through Onion. That's a fair and defensible position. Let me draft this now.

Onion · Oct 2, 6:06 PM
Response ready — Onion sends it when you sign off

Thank you for raising this directly — we take the brief seriously and want to get this right.

Route B was developed in response to feedback received during the Milestone 3 review, interpreted as a signal to pull back from the warmer end of the audit's spectrum. Clearly that reading missed the mark, and we understand why the result feels at odds with the warm, group-first direction the audit established. That gap matters, and we want to close it properly.

To make sure the next round lands exactly where it should, we're opening a structured feedback round through Onion. Once you submit your feedback and it passes review — confirming it's specific and actionable enough to brief against — your next presentation round opens immediately. That keeps everything tied back to the audit you approved.

We're ready to move as soon as your feedback comes through.

Sent to Splitzzzy ✓ · Oct 2, 6:09 PM

Thank you for raising this directly — we take the brief seriously and want to get this right.

Route B was developed in response to feedback received during the Milestone 3 review, interpreted as a signal to pull back from the warmer end of the audit's spectrum. Clearly that reading missed the mark, and we understand why the result feels at odds with the warm, group-first direction the audit established. That gap matters, and we want to close it properly.

To make sure the next round lands exactly where it should, we're opening a structured feedback round through Onion. Once you submit your feedback and it passes review — confirming it's specific and actionable enough to brief against — your next presentation round opens immediately. That keeps everything tied back to the audit you approved.

We're ready to move as soon as your feedback comes through.

Sent to Splitzzzy ✓ — they'll get a heads-up by email or text. When they reply I'll review it against the contract and we'll take it from there.Onion · Oct 2, 6:09 PM

Craft.

No matter your creative focus, Onion builds tangible, real-world documents — audits, tone of voice, guidelines, decks. This is where you can truly shine.

Brand audit

The strategy read, written for you.

Where the brand actually stands — positioning, audience, competitors, voice — and what to do about it. Written as a document you can put in front of a client the same day.

Brand Strategy Audit — Round 2

Freelancerzzz

The back office that runs itself, built by someone who spent nine years wishing it existed.

Overview

What we're covering.

01

Foundation

Nine years of internal tooling, compressed into a product. We ground the brand truth in the maker's own operational pain.

02

Mission & values

What Freelancerzzz refuses to be matters more than what it claims. We draw the lines that give the brand its spine.

03

Audience

One real person with a real Tuesday: the creative director who loses four hours a day to proposals, contracts, and QuickBooks before she touches design work.

04

Market & positioning

The gap between back-office tools and creative tools is unoccupied. We name the category so this brand owns the deciding criterion.

05

Competitive landscape

HoneyBook drifted to small business. Bonsai drifted to enterprise. Moxie has tone but no teeth. We map where each one left the door open.

06

Messaging

Headlines, subheads, and tone rails across brand, product, and acquisition — every line tested against the swap test and grounded in specifics.

Brand foundation

Built from the tools we needed. Packaged for the people who need them next.

Freelancerzzz wasn't conceived as a product. It was extracted from eight to nine years of internal automation — proposals, contracts, milestone billing, time tracking, brand frameworks — tools we built because no existing platform handled creative back-office work without friction. The foundation isn't a startup thesis. It's a practitioner's workaround that outgrew the practice. That origin is the brand's structural advantage: every feature exists because someone actually needed it on a Tuesday, not because a product team hypothesized demand.

Tone of voice

How they sound, in one guide.

How the brand talks, pinned down — the words they use, the words they never would, and real example lines written in their voice. So everything that ships sounds like them, no matter who wrote it.

Brand Voice Guide — Round 2

Freelancerzzz

Specific, calm, and direct — like someone who has already solved the problem you're describing

The Fundamental Idea

The back office runs itself.

Freelancerzzz sounds like the person in the room who built the thing, not the one selling it. Every line earns its place by naming a specific pain, a specific mechanism, or a specific result — and nothing else. When the copy is doing its job, the tool disappears and the work speaks.

“Four hours of proposals, contracts, and invoice chasing. Gone before lunch.”

The voice is the product in text form: text-first, practitioner-built, with nothing left in that wasn't chosen. If a line could belong to HoneyBook or Bonsai, it gets cut.

Brand Personality

Quiet competence. The smirk, not the megaphone.

Freelancerzzz doesn't announce what it does — it shows you. The personality comes from specificity and restraint: naming your Tuesday problem precisely, then describing exactly what disappears. No performance, no enthusiasm theater, no startup bravado.

01

Anti-startup energy

No 'we're on a mission to change how creatives work.' No origin story told in the third person. The brand story is the product: nine years of internal tools that solved real problems, packaged for the people who have the same problems next. That's the whole pitch.

02

The smirk

There's a dry confidence in how Freelancerzzz speaks — the kind that comes from already having done the thing. It's not ironic, not sarcastic, not trying to be funny. It's the tone of someone who already knew the answer before you finished the question. Comfortable, never defensive.

03

Chosen, not agonized

Everything in the copy is there because it was picked, not because it survived a committee. Short sentences. Precise nouns. Specifics over adjectives. The editing is the personality — what got cut is as intentional as what stayed.

Brand guidelines

The whole system, one reference.

Logo, color, type, photography and voice — every rule of the brand in one reference the client actually uses, pulled straight from the brain.

Decks

Decks that already did the thinking.

Not templates — the strategy arrives on the slides, pulled from the brand's brain. Twelve decks a client actually needs.

LiveBrand audit

The strategy read, client-ready.

LiveTone of voice

How they talk, pinned down.

LiveBrand guidelines

The whole system in one place.

LiveMoodboard

The direction, before the build.

LiveDesign review

Every round, structured.

LiveMarketing

The plan, on brand.

LiveCopy

Their voice, on the page.

LiveBuild your own

Any moment, from scratch.

In the worksInvestor

The raise, told straight.

In the worksRetail

Sell-in, shelf-ready.

In the worksSales / pitch

The room, won.

In the worksCase study

The work, proven.

Intelligence.

The engine in the middle — why everything sounds like you and lands like them.

Brains

First — what a brain actually is.

A brain is everything Onion has learned — and applies: positioning, voice, audience, proof. You own yours — built from your own work. And every client gets a brand brain you build as the work happens.

Then you stack them. Subscribe to a freelancer's brain or an agency's, and every proposal, deck and message pulls from all of them at once — so it reads like you wrote it, and lands like they made it.

Your brain
72health
Splitzzzy
100health
A freelancer's brain
96health
Project
Splitzzzy Brand Guidelinesgenerating

Builds itself. Gets sharper.

It learns you the way a person would.

It reads your emails and your past work — then keeps asking until it isn't a profile, it's you. And it never stops: every signed contract, approved deck and round of feedback feeds back in, and the wheel fills as real work proves it out — smarter, more you, every project.

your emails ✓ your past work ✓ drilled down ✓
60health
✓ Ready to write Working brain
Positioning67% Voice64% Audience64% Proof45%
✓ Work signed off a client approved a round — the strongest proof there is

Add to the party

Your brain doesn't have to work alone.

Subscribe to a marketer's brain, an agency's, a studio's — it joins your stack, and every draft pulls from it like it was yours: suddenly a new point of view in your work. Work you couldn't take yesterday is on your menu. And it works the other way: make your brain subscribable and another freelancer pays $500/mo for the way you work.

Someone & Others

✓ Subscribed $500/mo

A working studio's brain — positioning, voice and craft from years of shipped brands, in your corner.

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12-month subscription · $500/mo · next cycle Jul 25, 2027

Write in its voice — build a deck › View the brain — health & who's behind it ›

Billing isn't switched on yet — nothing is charged.

Open your brain to subscribers

Make your brain subscribable and anyone — a brand, an agency, or another freelancer — can subscribe to it. They get work in your voice, never the brain itself.

✓ Subscribable Your brain is subscribable Your brain isn't subscribable yet

$500/mo — you receive $400 after the 20% platform fee. Billing isn't switched on yet — nothing is charged.

OH BTW

All of this, from your phone.

Timers, proposals, payments, the schedule — over SMS, no app open. Text Onion like a producer who never sleeps.

Onion, inside Claude

coming soon

Same brain, same back office, in the chat you already have open. Claude connector (MCP)

Built from the tools we needed. Packaged for the people who need them next.

Danny · Someone & Others

Who built it

We built it because we needed it.

Seventeen years of client work built a pile of separate tools — proposals in one place, contracts in another, milestone billing, time tracking, brand frameworks. Each one worked. None of them talked to each other. We know this system because we live it. Freelancerzzz wasn't conceived as a product — it's those tools consolidated into one thread. We ran our whole business on the scattered pieces. Now it's one thing. Now it's yours.

Pricing

Three plans — Business, Craft, Intelligence. A real $59 door, no free-trial games.

$59/mo
Business
the ops-only lane — no add-ons, on purpose
Competitor value: $69
  • 5 proposals + 5 contracts a month
  • milestone billing — charges fire at signing
  • Onion on web + text, one thread
  • every client gets their own portal — clientname.brandzzz.co
  • projects + timeline
  • time tracking, billed each Sunday
  • expenses
  • invoicing + billing
  • top-up packs when a month runs hot

Monthly, cancel whenever.

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$159/mo
Craft
a $269 value for $159
Everything in Business, plus:
  • 20 proposals + 20 contracts — four times the volume
  • Brand included — positioning, voice and visuals, plus on-brand marketing plans, copy and strategy
  • Decks included — the full catalog, thinking done
  • Client Feedback included — structured review rounds
  • Mediation included — switches itself on when a dispute opens

Monthly, cancel whenever.

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$219/mo
Intelligence
a $329 value for $219
Everything in Craft, plus:
  • Your Brain included — Onion drafts in your voice, everywhere
  • unlimited proposals + contracts
  • your brain turns subscribable — one subscriber pays you $400/mo, and the tier's paid for. That's the math, not a promise.

Monthly, cancel whenever.

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Additional fees

A small flat fee rides each milestone payment — never a percentage.

$5milestones up to $1,000
$10up to $5,000
$15anything above $5,000 · never more

Brain subscriptions

Subscribe to another freelancer's brain — it's like hiring them.

Their brain joins your stack, and every proposal, deck and message pulls from it — you get work in their voice, never the brain itself. No access to what's inside. $500/mo, three-month minimum, billed once a quarter. And when someone subscribes to your brain, we keep 20% — the rest is yours.

$500/mo · a freelancer's brain · 3-month minimum, billed quarterly
$1,000/mo · an agency's braincoming soon
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