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.
3 web development projects and $6,333+ earned from 546 AI-sent Upwork proposals, with the pipeline still growing.
3 web development projects and $6,333+ earned from 546 AI-sent Upwork proposals, with the pipeline still growing.
5 data analytics projects and $7,306 earned in 30 days from 171 AI-sent Upwork proposals with Earlybird.
5 data analytics projects and $7,306 earned in 30 days from 171 AI-sent Upwork proposals with Earlybird.
16 analytics projects and $11,430+ earned from 85 AI-sent proposals and about $160 in Upwork connects.
16 analytics projects and $11,430+ earned from 85 AI-sent proposals and about $160 in Upwork connects.
