build the freelance business you were meant to build.
You’re great at the work. It’s everything around it — the pricing, the proposals, the chasing — that eats the evenings. North handles your proposals, agreements and bills, in the shape your business takes, and never sends a thing without you.
free during the beta — no card, no catch.
01From the call to the money
the call ends at twenty to five. the proposal does not have to wait for Sunday.
The minutes after a client call are when you know the most about the job and have the least energy to write it down. North takes the notes while they are warm and gives you back a draft to correct instead of a blank page to dread.
01
paste the notes
Half sentences are fine. North restates what it saw, asks the two or three things it is missing, and makes nothing until you say so.
02
read the price, and the sentence under it
Three options, each a different amount of work, each with a plain defence of its number. Change any figure before anyone else sees it.
03
send it yourself
The contract travels with the proposal. A screen shows what is going and to whom, and you press the button. There is no other way it leaves.
04
get paid, and be told
Your client accepts, signs and pays in a private room with your name on it. You hear about each one by email, on every plan.
02Spec: live preview
a client meeting in.
a proposal out.
Notes or a transcript go in. A scoped project, three priced options with the arithmetic showing, and a proposal that looks like your studio come out, while the call is still fresh in the client’s head. Below is what that exchange looks like.
fig.02Inbox · Live preview
03After the proposal
the rest of the loop,
handled the same way.
04The deal
it drafts.
you decide.
Nothing reaches a client without you pressing send, and there is no setting that changes that. North never sets a price, never grades a client, never sells or trains on your work, and never makes leaving hard: everything you make exports in one file, on any plan, the day you want it. The whole list, with the mechanism behind each line.
you press send. always you.
05Where it stands
the things a landing page usually hides, said plainly.
No customers yet
You will not find a testimonial, a logo wall, or a count of proposals sent on this site, because none exist. When somebody says something about North we did not ask for, it will appear here with their name on it.
One person building it
North is made by a solo founder from the visual side of client work, and the first user of the software is the person building it. The address in the footer goes to him.
Free while it is in beta
No card, no clock. The two plans it will cost at launch are published now, with the reasoning, so nothing about the price is ever a surprise.
The longer version is on the about page.
06Good questions
before you sign on.
North is software that does the commercial half of a freelance project for visual freelancers: brand and identity designers, UI/UX and web designers, illustrators, photographers. You paste the notes from a client call; it drafts a scoped project, three priced options with the arithmetic showing, a proposal and the contract that goes with it. The client reads, accepts, signs and pays in a private room carrying your name. You review and send everything yourself.
It drafts one from your call notes: the client's situation in their words, three options that are honestly different amounts of work, countable scope, a plain defence of each price, a timeline, terms and the assumptions the price depends on. It lands in an editor, not in your client's inbox. You change what is wrong and send it from a screen that shows what is going and to whom. On thin notes it drafts only what you told it rather than inventing scope.
From the scope it wrote and from anything the client said about what the outcome is worth to them. It never compares your price to other freelancers, regional averages or a market rate, because it has no data on anyone else and inventing a benchmark would be a betrayal. Each option carries a short rationale naming the parts of the scope the number rests on. You can change every figure before anything is sent.
No. Every proposal, contract, invoice and reminder goes through a screen you read and a button you press. There is no auto-send, no follow-up sequence, and no tool inside the assistant that can email anyone; the parts of North that draft are forbidden by a build rule from importing the parts that send. Reminders for late invoices are written for you and go when you say so.
Your notes, clients, prices and proposals are stored so North can help you with them and for nothing else. They are never sold, never used to advertise to you, and never used to train anyone's models: drafting runs on Anthropic's API, whose terms exclude API content from training. Nothing about your rates is pooled across accounts to suggest prices to other freelancers. Card details go to Stripe directly and North never sees them. Everything you make exports in one file, on any plan.
Create an account at app.asknorth.com with an email address, a Google account, or a password; there is no waitlist and no invite. Paste the notes from your last client call and read what comes back. North is free while it is in beta, with no card to enter.
Nothing while North is in beta. At launch there are two plans. Free is the whole business of winning work, forever: unlimited proposals drafted from your notes, contracts with e-signing, the client deal room with your own branding, unlimited invoices sent, tracked and marked paid by hand, and payment reminders drafted for you to send. Pro at $39/month is the money moving: your client pays by card on your own Stripe account with North taking nothing, delivery stages that build invoices, deposits and milestone billing, retainers, invoicing in euros and pounds, and the money view across every client. Accounts that exist before launch keep $20/month for as long as they exist, even after cancelling and coming back. The reasoning behind the line is on the pricing page.