Integration risk
Credentials, API documentation, rate limits, field mapping, and unstable systems.
FreelancerPlanning
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Built for n8n, Make, and Zapier freelancers
Price automation projects with fewer blind spots.
Turn a rough opportunity into a clearer scope, risk profile, effort estimate, minimum safe price, and a focused list of questions to resolve before you quote.
No accountNo paymentYour numbers set the price
PROJECT RISK LEDGERExample
Lead routing automationn8n · 4 connected systems
DraftComplexityMedium · 8 / 18
Risk levelMedium · 23 / 56
Estimated effort34.7 hours
Delivery modelBuild + 30-day support
Risk signal
Minimum safe price€5,250
From a €95 rate floor, 20% contingency, and 25% margin.
3 questions must be resolvedCalculation v1.0
PROJECT REVIEWWatermarked sample
Northstar lead operationsRisk29 / 56
Effort58.7 h
Safe floor€9,250
4 pagesScope · risk · price · controls
FREE SAMPLE REPORT
See the complete result before using the calculator.
This four-page sample shows the scope, risk, effort, price logic, package floors, discovery questions, assumptions, exclusions, acceptance criteria, and payment schedule produced for a fictional automation project.
- Fictional project data
- Free subscriber edition
- Clearly watermarked sample
Free now: subscribers receive the watermarked sample. A paid, clean export without the watermark may be introduced later; no price or launch date has been set.
The number is only useful when you can explain it.
Visible scoringEditable assumptionsRisk-based contingencyNo automatic client sending
WHY FREELANCERPLANNING EXISTS
A simple automation can hide an expensive delivery problem.
Clients describe the happy path. Freelancers still have to uncover access limits, dirty data, exceptions, approvals, testing, monitoring, handover, and support. When those unknowns are missing from the quote, the freelancer usually absorbs the extra work.
FreelancerPlanning turns those hidden decisions into a structured review before a fixed price is promised. It does not invent a price. It helps you explain why the work, risk, and commercial floor look the way they do.
Review a real opportunity →THE PROBLEM CHAIN
01Rough client briefThe happy path sounds simple.
02Unknown delivery riskAccess, data, failures, and support remain unpriced.
03Fixed quoteThe freelancer commits before the unknowns are resolved.
04Margin disappearsExtra discovery and rework become unpaid hours.
BEYOND HOURS × RATE
A generic calculator cannot see what makes automation work risky.
The visible workflow is only part of the job. Access, data, exception handling, monitoring, and support can decide whether a fixed-price project stays profitable.
Data quality
Unstructured inputs, missing fields, inconsistent records, and exception volume.
Business impact
Failure consequences, manual fallbacks, process maturity, and approval ownership.
Maintenance burden
Change frequency, monitoring ownership, source stability, and support expectations.
A STRUCTURED REVIEW
Work through the commercial decision in the right order.
One question at a time keeps the review focused. The live ledger shows how each answer changes complexity, risk, effort, and price.
Describe the opportunity
Name the platform and outline what should trigger, happen, and count as a successful result.
Expose technical complexity
Map systems, workflow size, branches, approvals, sync direction, and custom API work.
Pressure-test delivery risk
Work through the access, data, business, and maintenance questions that often get missed.
Apply your business rules
Use your own rate, cost, and margin. The calculator shows the complete pricing logic.
TRANSPARENT BY DESIGN
A result you can inspect, challenge, and change.
The tool separates technical complexity from delivery risk. Complexity proposes base build hours. Risk changes contingency and margin. Your rate and cost inputs determine the final floor.
- 01Every scored answer is visible.
- 02Build hours remain editable.
- 03The final price is a floor, not a verdict.
CALCULATION LOGIC
Technical complexityBase build hours
+Planning, testing, docs, adminTotal delivery effort
×Risk contingencyAdjusted hours
+Tool and API setup costDelivery cost
×Your margin ruleMinimum safe price
CLIENT DATA DESERVES RESTRAINT
Use the tool without creating an account.
Your working answers stay in the current browser tab. The calculator does not silently store client descriptions. If you ask for an emailed report, you choose whether to submit your email and the calculation summary.
Read about data and security →Do not paste
Passwords, API keys, payment details, health data, or confidential facts the calculation does not need.
Always review
The scope, assumptions, risk level, effort, price, and discovery questions before using them in client work.
You decide
Nothing is sent to a client, signed, accepted, or priced automatically.
QUESTIONS, ANSWERED
Know what the free tool does and what it does not do.
Is this another AI proposal generator?+
No. The first product is a deterministic automation risk and pricing calculator. It helps you find unknowns, estimate effort, and calculate a personal pricing floor. It does not let AI decide what you should charge.
Does the result tell me the market price?+
No. The minimum safe price is based on the rate, costs, risk, effort, and margin you enter. It is a planning floor for your business, not a benchmark or a promise that a client will accept the number.
Do I need an account?+
No. The public calculator works without an account. Your working answers remain in the current browser tab. We store your email and calculation summary only when you ask for an emailed report and consent to that storage.
Which projects does it support?+
The first calculation model is designed for n8n, Make, and Zapier freelance projects. It can still help with adjacent automation work, but the current weights have not been validated for large enterprise RPA programmes.
Can I send the result directly to a client?+
Treat it as an internal decision document first. Check the scope, assumptions, price, and discovery questions yourself before adapting anything for a client.
BRING A REAL OPPORTUNITY
Find the weak assumptions before they become unpaid work.
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