It’s not your proposals. Here’s what’s actually killing your Upwork results.

You’ve rewritten your profile. You’ve tweaked your proposals. You’ve watched the videos and maybe even bought a course.

And you’re still not getting hired consistently.

Here’s what nobody tells you: the problem probably isn’t your proposal at all. It’s the jobs you’re applying to.

I tracked every job I applied to on Upwork over several months. What I found was uncomfortable: 55% of them never hired anyone. Not me, not the cheaper freelancer, not anyone. The client posted and disappeared.

That means more than half your connects — and the time you spent writing those proposals — were dead on arrival before you even hit send.

Upwork’s filters don’t tell you this. They can’t. So you apply blind, like everyone else.

I’m Chris. I’ve been freelancing on Upwork for years and this problem drove me crazy enough to build something about it. Not a course. Not another template. A tool that gives you the filters Upwork should have built in the first place.

Instead of searching the same pool of jobs as everyone else, you can filter by things that actually predict whether a job is worth your time:

• Client hire rate — skip the posters who never hire
• Budget signals — filter out hobby projects with no real money behind them
• Client history — find established businesses, not one-time experimenters
• Competition signals — avoid the jobs already flooded with 50+ proposals

This is a private beta. You’ll get:

• Full access to the search filter tool
• A 1-on-1 onboarding call with me to set up your filters for your specific niche
• Founding member pricing locked in for as long as you stay

$50 setup fee + $10/month.

The onboarding call alone makes sure this is set up to work for your situation — not a generic out of the box experience.

[Claim your beta spot →] (Stripe link)

This isn’t advice. It’s a tool you’ll use every single time you search for work on Upwork. The freelancers in this beta are applying to fewer jobs and getting more responses — because they’re finally applying to jobs where someone actually intends to hire.