Self-hosted AI for freelancers

Stop writing proposals by hand

Frely is a command center for freelancers with AI that learns your style: proposals, client conversations, tasks and money in one window. It runs on your own server, so your data stays yours.

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Free during beta. One Docker command to install. Bring your own AI key

Proposal drafted in 14s

Deadline radar: 3 alerts

Frely dashboard: today's tasks, deadlines and active projects in one screen

The freelance tax nobody talks about

You did not go freelance to copy-paste job posts into cover letters. Yet this is where your evenings go.

/01

One proposal = one hour

Rewriting the same intro, retelling your experience, tuning tone for every job post. Ten applications eat your whole evening.

/02

Conversations get lost

Client decisions hide in chats and emails. You scroll history at midnight trying to remember what was agreed two weeks ago.

/03

Tasks live in your head

A brief arrives in a chat, you keep it in memory, something always slips. Then a deadline lands from nowhere.

/04

Money stays invisible

Which client still owes you? Which project eats your time for too little pay? Without numbers you are guessing.

Every part of the job, one window

Tasks, clients, money and the AI that drafts your work. No tab juggling, no lost context.

Frely Kanban board with priorities and deadline radar

Tasks & Time

Kanban, priorities, deadline radar

Drag-and-drop board, a radar that warns before deadlines explode, and a tracker with full billing-ready history.

Clients & Money

Budgets in any currency

Clients, projects, budgets and hours per project. You finally see which clients pay well and which just talk.

Analytics

Your numbers, finally visible

Proposal win rate over time, where hours actually go, weekly activity. Numbers instead of gut feeling.

AI Proposals + AI Correspondence

The flagship: proposals that sound like you

Paste a job post. Frely studies it, matches your past wins, drafts a reply in your voice you edit two sentences and send.

Drop a client thread in, and every decision becomes a task with an owner and a date.

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Running in three steps

If you can run Docker, you can run Frely. No subscriptions to configure, no vendor lock-in.

Install with one command

Frely, its database and voice service come up together on any VPS, home server or NAS.

docker compose up -d

Paste your AI key

Any OpenAI-compatible provider works. You pick the model, you pay pennies, nobody sits in the middle.

Feed it your history

A few of your best proposals and one client thread. From then on, AI writes like you.

vlad@homelab: ~/frely

$ git clone https://github.com/frely/frely.git && cd frely $ docker compose up -d [+] Running 4/4 ✔ frely-postgres Healthy ✔ frely-backend Started ✔ frely-frontend Started ✔ frely-stt Started → Frely is live at http://localhost:3000 (paste your AI key in Settings)

Self-hosted by design

Your clients.
Your server.
Your data.

✓ No accounts, no tracking, no telemetry
✓ Your AI key, your usage costs, your logs
✓ A Postgres backup is a full export of your business
✓ Works offline on a local network
✓ NDA-friendly: client work stays inside your network

the whole install

$ git clone https://github.com/frely/frely.git $ docker compose up -d # that is the entire setup. # your AI key goes into a settings # screen, not a config file.

Where Frely is heading

Built in the open. What is done is shipped, what is next is public.

Shipped Live now

AI proposals with your own style
Correspondence analysis into tasks
Clients, projects, budgets in multi-currency
Time tracking with billing-ready reports
Voice input everywhere

Next Roadmap

Email notifications and password reset
Billing and invoices
Team roles beyond solo freelancer
Public API and integrations

Questions people actually ask

Short answers here, longer ones on the FAQ page.

Do I need to be technical to run it?

You need a server that runs Docker and ten minutes of patience. The installer is one command, and the AI key is pasted into a settings screen.

What does the AI cost me?

Whatever your provider charges usually a few dollars a month for a solo freelancer. Frely itself is free during beta and stays free for core features.

Does my client data leave my server?

Data is stored locally. Only text you explicitly send to the AI provider goes out, over your own API key. There are no Frely servers in the middle.

Why a waitlist instead of a download?

The beta is small on purpose: each new user gets a real setup conversation, not a docs link. Invites go out in waves.

Get your invite to the beta

Leave your email and tell us what you do. Invites go out in waves, freelancers who describe their work get in first.

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