Guntis is a mechanical engineer who takes on CAD and product design work on Upwork, billing $40 an hour. He works in tools like SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor. He started with Earlybird in June.
Winning on Upwork rewards showing up early and consistently across a high volume of relevant postings. Engineering jobs are spread across many tools and specialties, and plenty of postings that mention CAD are not a real fit.
Sorting the good jobs from the noise and writing a proposal for each one by hand is slow, unbilled work. It caps how many of the right clients one engineer can reach in a month.
Earlybird ran four bidders for Guntis from his own profile: industrial CAD design, Autodesk Inventor hourly jobs, SolidWorks hourly jobs, and a combined SolidWorks, CAD and design bidder that excluded calculation and ergonomics jobs. It detected 492 relevant gigs and sent tailored proposals an average of 9.2 minutes after each posting. The industrial CAD bidder led the way with 122 bids and 26 replies.
In his first month, Earlybird sent 206 proposals for Guntis against about $425.70 in Upwork connects (2,838 connects). They returned 40 replies, a 19.4% reply rate, and led to 50 conversations. That converted into 9 projects and $10,336+ earned, or $9,611 net of connects: a 2,258% return in a single month.
27 projects and $7,295+ earned from 175 AI-sent Upwork proposals, at a 29.7% reply rate, with Earlybird.
27 projects and $7,295+ earned from 175 AI-sent Upwork proposals, at a 29.7% reply rate, with Earlybird.
202 projects and $152,272+ earned after handing Upwork bidding to Earlybird's AI proposals.
202 projects and $152,272+ earned after handing Upwork bidding to Earlybird's AI proposals.
20 projects and $28,046 earned after Bipul put Earlybird's AI proposals to work on his Upwork pipeline.
20 projects and $28,046 earned after Bipul put Earlybird's AI proposals to work on his Upwork pipeline.
