One proposal, one hour
Every job post deserves a reply, and every reply starts from a blank page. Ten applications a week is a full workday of writing about yourself.
For freelancers who bill by the hour
Frely drafts replies in your voice, turns client chats into tasks and keeps every deadline in view. On your own server.
Every job post deserves a reply, and every reply starts from a blank page. Ten applications a week is a full workday of writing about yourself.
The scope you agreed on lives in message number 47 of a thread you closed two weeks ago. You find out it changed when the invoice is questioned.
Three clients, five projects, one brain. Something always slips, and it is never the loud client who slips through.
Which client actually pays? Which project ate your month? Without numbers, you keep guessing and the busywork keeps winning.
Frely keeps the whole freelance loop in one place: win the work, do the work, get paid.

Proposals
Paste a job post. AI reads it, matches your past wins and drafts the reply in your voice. You edit two sentences and send. Ten applications before lunch.

Clients
Client threads become structured history. Scope, deadlines and decisions stay attached to the client, not lost in a messenger.

Tasks & time
Drag-and-drop tasks with a deadline radar that flags trouble before it explodes. Timers with history you can bill from.

Money
Win rate over time, hours per project, budgets in any currency. You see which clients pay and which just talk.
No DevOps degree. No sales call. If a machine can run Docker, it can run Frely.
Full setup guide→One command brings Frely, its database and the voice service up on any VPS, home server or NAS.
docker compose up -d
Paste an AI key from any OpenAI-compatible provider. OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Azure or a local model. You set the budget.
Drop in three proposals that already won you work. Frely learns your structure and tone, then drafts like you.
Frely is self-hosted on purpose. Nothing phones home, nothing is resold, no platform can lock you out of your own business.
Why self-hosted wins→You need Docker and ten minutes. The installer is one command, the AI key goes into a settings screen. If you can install an app, you can run Frely.
Whatever your provider charges. A solo freelancer's proposal volume is typically a few dollars a month. Frely itself is free during beta.
Only the text you explicitly send for AI processing, over your own API key, straight to the provider you picked. Nothing else, no middleman.
The beta is small on purpose. Every new user gets a real setup conversation with the builder, not a docs link. Invites go out in waves.
The beta is small and personal. Leave your email, say what you do. One message when your invite is ready, that is all.
Questions first? hi@bullakh.shop