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Scanners → Filters → AI Cover → Auto-Send → Alerts → Dashboard (PVR/LRR)
Be First in the Upwork Inbox
Scan, filter & auto-send within minutes. +PVR, +LRR, less manual work
Upwork is a marketplace with $5B+ in projects and nearly 1M clients every year. If you’re not there yet, you’re losing deals to competitors every single day. If you’re already on the platform, most agencies get stuck at $10–20K/month, even though it allows scaling to $50K+. Without automation, it’s easy to waste hours and miss top clients who choose the first proposals.
Why agencies switch to First-Inbox automation
Reply rates double when you’re in the first 10 proposals.
🧑💻 Manual Lead Generation
❌ Bidding on old jobs (little to no replies)
❌ Low leverage work (time spent - 0 results)
❌ Limited capacity to bid per day
❌ Hiring lead generators is overpriced/ineffective
❌ Non-scalable and unpredictable results
🦾 Automated Lead Generation
✅ First-in-Inbox in 3–5 minutes
✅ Bid on new jobs in 10-15 minutes (at scale)
✅ AI analyzes job description/profile to write proposal
✅ AI generates higher view/reply rates than humans
✅ Costs 2-3x less than human and gets more leads
✅ Scalable and predictable results
From scan to sent in under 5 minutes
⚡ Be first on high-value jobs — +100–200% reply lift when first-in-inbox.
🌎 Auto-send 24/7 — minutes-to-apply, even while you sleep.
⏳ Human-sounding AI covers — trained on 100k replies.
💰 Reclaim hours — focus on calls & delivery, not search.
Why GigRadar Works
To generate consistent leads on Upwork, you need 3 key elements: speed, scale & personalization. GigRadar provides all three - here's how:
SPEED is a Quality
Sending in the first 3–5 minutes boosts replies by ~50% vs >1h.
AI > Human
AI-generated cover letters (written by GigRadar) outperform human-written ones in terms of reply rates. Trained on 100k successful replies, GigRadar's AI knows what actually gets responses. It uses both the freelancer profile and job description for context, allowing it to generate a relevant and targeted proposal, addressing client pain points every time!
Tone guardrails prevent clichés, so you never “sound like a bot”.
What's NEW in GigRadar
We've added new features to help you get more clients and close deals faster.
Automatic call invite Turn replies into booked calls automatically
Profile optimization Rank higher; get more inbound from search
Scalability constant bids = constant pipeline
What Happens When Agencies Switch to Automation 🦾
When starting out on Upwork, Gavin couldn't win a single job. However, after switching to automated lead generation with GigRadar, he grew his profile to $70k+ in 6 months!
Dmitrii struggled with hiring a reliable SDR to delegate the Upwork lead generation process. After trying GigRadar, he fired his SDR in 24 hours and went all in on automation!
Aashish doubted that AI-generated proposals would work on Upwork. 5 weeks into using GigRadar, he closed 9 deals using only AI-bids!
Freelancers that went from $0 to $50k+ with GigRadar!
Gavin Hewitson
Gavin, an email marketer, tried manual bidding only to realize that it was a waste of time. Within a few months of GigRadar automation, he went from $0 to now over $20k+ on his freelancer profile!
Anna Shtonda
Anna went from winning 1 job per 100 bids as a freelancer to a full-blown graphic design agency with over $60k+ revenue earned since joining GigRadar! She will never go back to manual lead gen again!
Aashish Sachdeva
Aashish was extremely hesitant about trying GigRadar and thought it was just another tool, but gave it a shot. Within 35 days, his web development agency Swift Expand won 9 new projects!
Agency Owners that Scaled to $1M+ with GigRadar!
Denys Safonov
Denys dreamt of traveling the world and working on his laptop, freelancing. He started his own Upwork agency, Etcetera, and was able to turbocharge it's growth with the help of GigRadar. He's passed $3+ million in earnings and stated that: "for any scaling business, automation is key!"
Yaroslav Golovach
One of the largest agencies in Upwork, Codemotion Ninjas, Yaroslav started out as a developer looking to make extra income. Fast forward a few years, he fast-tracked his agency to over $20M+ in lifetime earnings with the help of GigRadar and a strong team behind him!
Volodymyr Hresko
Volodymyr Hresko started out as a broke college student looking for ways to get by. Once he discovered Upwork, he started earning a decent income and after signing up for GigRadar, he won 2 high-value clients on the very first day and turbocharged COXIT Agency to over $1 Million in earnings!
Calculate your ROI in 30 seconds
Hours × Cost + Missed Jobs × Win Rate × Deal Size = $ Lost
Let's look at some real cases of clients that joined in Q3/Q4 of 2024 ⤵️
Example #1: Blockchain Development
This is one of our new clients in the Blockchain development niche. They've sent out over 538 proposals to which they've gotten 37 replies. So what was their ROI? Let's find out.
To send 538 proposals, they received 57 replies. In a competitive niche such as blockchain development, the close rate is around 3%. In this case, they won 2 projects. One project was worth almost $3,000 and the other project was worth $26,000. So, they've earned back almost $29,000!
Profit = $27,500
GigRadar ROI = 1807%
Example #2: Digital Marketing
Chris joined us in September. He was a marketer so he saw this tool as basically another PPC instrument (which is essentially what it is for Upwork)! In 30 days, he sent out 120 proposals and got back 30 replies. So what was his ROI?
To send 120 proposals, he invested around $360. With 20 replies in a niche like marketing, the close rate is around 15-20%. In his case, he won 3 projects. On those projects he has earned back around $2800.
Gross Profit = $2,440
GigRadar ROI = 677%
Example #3: Web Development
Another web development agency joined us in September and started seeing results within the first 30 days. They set up their filters, sent 337 proposals and get 31 replies which is quite good for their niche. So how much did they earn?
To send 337 proposals, they've invested around $1000. With 31 replies in a niche like web development, the close rate is around 5%. In their case, they won 2 projects with a total order value of $7300.
Gross Profit = $6,300
GigRadar ROI = 630%
Don't take our word for it: Automate Upwork to see results like these!
Starter Pack for First-Inbox setup
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From Human Effort to Full Automation
- Discover the full list of benefits when making the switch to GigRadar automation!
- Get a more consistent and cost-effective lead generator for your Upwork agency.
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