The Toolkit

Shortcuts, tools and templates.

- freelance, easier

To make freelance life easier - most of them built because I needed them myself.

Every one of these came from a real frustration in my own business. I couldn't find a tool that did the thing I needed, or I kept losing hours to the same admin, so I built (or wrote) the shortcut myself. Now they're yours too.

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A quick word

Why freelance tools live on a site about diversifying.

Because a portfolio career is built on a steady base. Before you stack new income streams on top of your freelance work, that work needs to be solid, well-paid and reliable. These tools help you get there - find the right niches, pitch the right brands, and turn one-off projects into income you can build on.

(And a couple of them, the ones I vibe coded myself, are proof of exactly the sort of thing you can build once you start diversifying. A writer with zero tech background made these. Just saying :))

The tools

Take whichever you need.

Niche Navigator

Find where the money actually is, before you waste a single pitch.

Niche Navigator scans whole industries and surfaces the niches that are genuinely growing right now - flagging the real signals like brands increasing ad spend, hiring, expanding and launching. It breaks something broad like Travel or Wellness into hyper-specific, pitchable sub-niches, ranks them by how strong the data is, and hands you a downloadable list of real brands to go after.

Best for: Freelancers who keep pitching into dead-end niches with tiny budgets, and want to choose where to focus based on data instead of a vibe.

£49Get Niche Navigator

Should I Pitch Them?

Stop spending your mornings researching brands one by one.

Paste in up to 10 brand websites and Should I Pitch Them? scores each one out of 100, colour-coded green, amber or red, so you can see instantly who's worth your energy. It checks the things you'd otherwise check by hand - careers pages, blog activity, recent launches, company growth - and gives you a deeper audit on the promising ones, sometimes right down to a recommended contact to reach out to.

Best for: Freelancers who lose hours to manual brand research and want to know in seconds which prospects are actually worth the pitch.

£29Get Should I Pitch Them?

Cold Pitch Sprint

Done-for-you lead generation and pitch templates that land - the approach I built a six-figure writing business on.

I've won my best clients through cold pitching: no job boards, no endless applications. One of my cold pitches turned into a £9,600 contract, which then referred me to a client who's since paid me five figures a month. Cold Pitch Sprint walks you through the whole thing - finding the right person, writing the pitch, following up - then my lead-gen team sources 75 contacts for you at brands of your choice so all you've got to do is press send.

Best for: Freelancers who know they should be cold pitching but don't know what to say, or whose pitches keep disappearing into inboxes.

£69 / mo · 3 monthsJoin Cold Pitch Sprint

Retainer Ready

Turn one-off projects into the stable, recurring income everything else gets built on.

A brilliant month means very little if you're back to zero on the 1st. Retainer Ready shows you how to turn the clients you already have into long-term monthly retainers - the right conversations, the right timing, and the framing that makes ongoing work feel like the obvious next step rather than a pushy ask. Around 80% of my clients end up long-term, and this is how.

Best for: Freelancers tired of chasing new work every month who want a steady, predictable base they can rely on - and build on.

£99Get Retainer Ready

And also

Client Pipeline Intensive

If you need a full programme to fill your freelance pipeline with the right kinds of clients, CPI lives on its own site.

Check out CPI

Once your base is solid

You're ready to build on top of it.

These tools get your freelance income steady. When you're ready to stack new income streams on top - coaching, products, community, the lot - that's where a Portfolio Career Power Hour comes in.

Map your next income stream

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