About Corelance
A marketplace where both sides have something to prove.
Most freelance platforms optimize for one side and treat the other as a commodity. We think the work goes better when freelancers earn their seat and clients earn their reputation, with the same evidence in both directions.
Why we built it
The two sides of the freelance internet that nobody fixes at once.
The freelance internet has two well-known problems and almost every platform fixes one by ignoring the other.
Freelancers spend their time writing 30 proposals a week to projects they never hear back from, against an unknown number of competitors of unknown skill, and pay a 20% cut for the privilege. The signal is noise.
Clients post a brief, get 80 applications they cannot triage, hire someone whose portfolio looks great in a screenshot, and find out the person is not the person. Then they get to navigate the misclassification risk on top.
We built Corelance because both of those failures share a root cause: nobody is making the people on the platform actually prove anything.
What we believe
Six things that decide what we build and what we won't.
- 01
Both sides have to prove themselves
Freelancers pass a quiz and a hands-on skills test before they can apply for anything. Clients sign a Master Services Agreement and verify their legal entity before they can post. There's no asymmetric trust on this platform.
- 02
The signal beats the noise
A curated feed scored by what actually matters (cert match, reputation, recency, project saturation) beats a flood of 80 applications. We'd rather show the right ten than the loudest hundred.
- 03
Money sits in escrow, not in promises
Skills-test bounties and contract amounts are funded the moment they're agreed to. Work doesn't start before the money clears. Disputes resolve against the actual record, not against memory.
- 04
The legal layer is part of the product
MSAs, BPAs, and SOWs are baked in with structured signing, identity verification, and clear IP terms. Worker misclassification is a real risk and we don't leave it to a footer link.
- 05
Behavior compounds in both directions
A freelancer who passes on every project sees a smaller feed. A client who rejects every applicant ranks lower. The marketplace works for the people who show up to it in good faith, and we're willing to make that visible.
- 06
Plain rules, plainly stated
Clear fees, clear contracts, clear expectations. If a rule needs three pages of legalese to make sense, that's on us to fix, not on you to parse.
What we're building toward
The version of this we want to be in five years.
A marketplace where the time from posting a project to working with the right person is hours instead of weeks. Where freelancers compete on the strength of their work, not the speed of their proposal. Where clients hire with confidence because the platform did the hard part of vetting before either side opened the conversation.
We're not there yet. We have a small set of certified roles, a working matching system, and a legal layer most platforms still treat as an afterthought. The rest is on the roadmap.
Get on the platform
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