Stop spending Connects on jobs you were never going to win
The average reply rate on Upwork is 7.45%. Most of the gap between that and the top quartile is not writing speed, it is which jobs you bid on and whether the proposal sounds like a person wrote it.
Start freeHunts, not tab-refreshing
Save a search once. Foreman runs it on a schedule, scores every job against your skills, your rates and the category’s real reply rate, and tells you why each one scored what it did.
Drafts that sound like you
Paste a few proposals that got replies. Foreman learns how you open, how long your sentences run and what you never say, then writes a first draft you edit rather than a template you rewrite.
A guard against the thing that gets people flagged
Foreman counts stock phrases, flags a generic opener, and refuses to send a draft that is close to one you already sent. Three or more clichés drops reply rate to about 4.17%.
Numbers you can act on
Reply rate, win rate, Connects spent, cost per reply and cost per hire, per hunt and per week. Rates below five proposals are withheld rather than made up.