Upwork Pilot pulls fresh jobs for the roles you target, scores every one against your profile with Claude, drafts a cover letter that proves you read the brief and gives you an AI assistant for each job. You review, you edit — and you press submit.
Animation: a new Upwork job, “Terraform refactor for a multi-region AWS platform”, is found and scored 92 out of 100 for DevOps. A paper plane flies past “Scored” and “Cover letter drafted” and lands on a “Ready for you” card with the Claude-drafted cover letter, a Copy button and an Open on Upwork link. You submit on Upwork yourself. Sample data, fictional client.
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the team behind Emo CRM and BrandForge.
Upwork Pilot includes: Fresh jobs for your roles, Claude fit score 0–100, Filter by role, score, keyword, Tailored cover letters, AI assistant per job, Trending skills, Daily job volume, Budget pulse per role, Portfolio posts to GitHub, Every scan logged, Private, password-protected.
How it works
Upwork Pilot does the scanning, the triage and the first draft. The decisions — which jobs, what to say, when to send — stay with you.
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Hit Refresh jobs — or let a schedule do it — and Upwork Pilot pulls the newest postings for the roles you target, from payment-verified clients who have hired before. Duplicates and jobs you've already seen are dropped.
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Claude reads every new posting against your profile, gives it a 0–100 fit score, picks the role it matches and says why in one sentence. Anything below your minimum never reaches your list.
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Open a job and Claude drafts a cover letter that proves you read it, ready to edit. Stuck on a screening question or a budget? Ask the job's AI assistant — it knows the posting and your profile.
Copy the letter, click Open on Upwork and send the proposal yourself. Upwork Pilot never logs into your Upwork account and never presses submit for you.
Every scan is logged with what it found, what was new and what made the cut. Sample data.
Features
One private workspace for the whole hunt: the jobs worth your time, why they fit, a first draft for each and a feel for where the market is moving.
Your jobs, triaged
Every job that passes your minimum lands in one searchable list with its score, role and budget — and a direct link to the posting. Sort by score and the best matches are always on top.
By role, by minimum score (50, 70, 80), by any word in the title or description — newest first or best first.
Each scan drops duplicates and anything already in your list, so you never triage the same job twice.
Not for you? Archive it. It leaves your list but stays searchable in the archive.
Fit score
Claude scores each posting from 0 to 100 against your profile and the roles you target. Jobs outside your roles score low; 70+ means the required skills clearly overlap with yours and the budget looks viable.
Every score comes with the role it matched and one sentence on why — so you can disagree in five seconds.
Set the minimum score a job needs to be kept and how many new jobs each scan may evaluate. No redeploy needed.
Cover letters by Claude
Claude, Anthropic's AI model, writes each letter from the job description and your profile — and it's held to rules clients notice: the first sentence proves the job was read, the client's own stack is quoted back, and it ends with your availability and a concrete next step.
Kept under 1,200 characters, no bullet lists, no headers, no “thrilled to apply” — with a live character counter while you edit.
Exactly one link, picked for the role the job matches, on its own line near the end.
It's told to stick to your profile — no invented projects, dates or numbers. Edit, save, regenerate or copy in one click.
AI assistant per job
Each job has its own chat. The assistant already knows the posting, the budget, the matched role and your profile — so you can ask the question you'd otherwise agonise over and get a ready-to-paste answer in your voice.
Draft an answer to a client's question, a clarifying question to ask first, or a sanity check on the rate.
Terse and evidence-based — and when your profile can't honestly support something, it says so plainly.
The conversation is saved with the job. Clear it whenever you want a fresh start.
Market intel
The dashboard turns everything you've scanned into a read on your corner of the market: how many jobs land each day, which roles they're for and how well they fit you — and which skills are suddenly showing up more often.
Daily volume
Jobs per day over the last 30 days, plus 7- and 30-day totals.
Trending skills
Keyword mentions in the last 14 days vs. the 14 before — with NEW for fresh arrivals.
Fit by role
Job count and average score for each role you target.
Budget pulse
Median hourly and fixed budgets per role, from the postings you've scanned.
Portfolio posts
One click and Claude writes a 700–1,200-word technical article inspired by the problem in the posting — not a copy of it — in your voice, drawing on your real experience. It's committed straight to your GitHub-backed portfolio site, and you get the live link to drop into your proposal.
The Markdown post (with front-matter) is pushed to your site's repository; the commit link is saved with the job.
A fresh, relevant article beats “see my profile” — and it keeps working for you after this job.
You stay in control
Upwork Pilot is built to make you faster at the parts that are tedious, and to stay out of the parts that are yours: your account, your judgement, your send button.
Upwork Pilot has no submit button for Upwork. It hands you a letter and a link; the proposal goes out from your own account, when you decide.
It never asks for your Upwork password and never logs in as you. Jobs come from a separate job feed that uses nothing from your account.
Minimum fit score, how many new jobs a scan may evaluate and how many postings it pulls — all adjustable while it runs.
Letters are drafts. Edit, save, regenerate or throw them away — nothing is sent anywhere until you paste it.
Each run logs when it started and ended, how many postings it pulled, how many were new, scored and kept.
Your dashboard sits behind a password with an encrypted, HTTP-only session cookie. Your jobs and chats stay in your workspace.
Using Upwork Pilot doesn't change Upwork's rules for you — you're still responsible for your proposals and for following Upwork's Terms of Service. We don't promise interviews or hires; we help you spend your time on the jobs that fit.
Who it's for
Freelancers
You know your stack. Upwork Pilot is set up with your profile and the roles you go after, then does the daily sweep — so the hour you have goes into the three jobs worth winning.
Agencies
For agencies that bid on Upwork, Upwork Pilot is set up around the profile and the service lines you sell — so whoever writes proposals starts from a ranked shortlist and a solid draft every morning.
Plans
Upwork Pilot is set up for you by the barq. team. Plans differ by who it's for and how much we tailor — tell us how you work and we'll send a clear quote.
For a freelancer who wants a sharper, faster job hunt.
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FAQ
Can't find what you're looking for? Message us — a real person from the barq. team will get back to you.
Upwork Pilot is a private web app by barq. for the Upwork job hunt. It pulls fresh job postings for the roles you target, has Claude score each one from 0 to 100 against your profile, keeps the ones that pass your minimum in a searchable list, drafts a tailored cover letter per job, gives every job its own AI assistant chat, can turn a job into a portfolio article on your GitHub-backed site, and shows a dashboard of daily volume, fit by role and trending skills.
No. Upwork Pilot never submits anything. It gives you a draft and a direct link to the posting; you copy the letter, open the job on Upwork and send the proposal yourself, from your own account.
No. It never logs into Upwork as you. New jobs come from a separate job feed (a hosted scraper service on Apify) that runs a search for your roles and uses nothing from your account.
Each scan searches for the newest postings matching your roles, limited to payment-verified clients who have hired before and to intermediate or expert-level work, both fixed-price and hourly. Duplicates and jobs already in your list are dropped, then Claude scores the rest; anything below your minimum score is left out.
Claude reads the job title, description and budget alongside your profile and the roles you target. It returns a score from 0 to 100, the role the job matches and a one-sentence reason. Jobs outside your roles score below 40; 70 or more means the required skills clearly overlap with your profile and the budget looks viable.
Claude, Anthropic's AI model, writes the first draft from the job description and your profile. It's instructed to open with a sentence that proves the job was read, quote the client's own stack back, stay under 1,200 characters with no bullet points, include exactly one relevant portfolio link and avoid filler like 'thrilled to apply'. It's also told not to invent projects, dates or numbers. You can edit, save, regenerate or copy every letter.
Anything about the job in front of you: how to answer a screening question, a clarifying question to send before proposing, a follow-up if the client asks for past work, or whether the budget is reasonable for the scope. It knows the posting and your profile, answers tersely in your voice, and says plainly when your profile can't support something. Each job keeps its own conversation until you clear it.
Totals for all time, the last 7 and the last 30 days, open jobs scoring 75 or more, daily job volume for the last 30 days, job count and average score per role, the top-scored jobs of the week and trending skills — keyword mentions in the last 14 days compared with the 14 days before. The analytics also work out median hourly and fixed budgets per role.
No, and we won't pretend otherwise. Upwork Pilot helps you choose better jobs and write better first drafts faster; what clients decide is up to them. Because it never logs in or submits for you, everything that happens on Upwork is still your own action — so you remain responsible for following Upwork's Terms of Service.
Upwork is a trademark of Upwork Inc. Upwork Pilot is an independent tool by barq. and is not affiliated with Upwork.
It depends on whether it's for you or an agency, and how much we tailor it, so we quote after a short call. Send the form below or message us on WhatsApp and you'll get a clear number — no surprises.
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