Founder of Briefance — AI that turns messy client emails into project briefs in 3 seconds. For freelancers & agencies.

Halil Berkay  • Peerlist

Briefance turns messy client emails into bulletproof project briefs in 3 seconds.It's a vertical AI SaaS for freelancers, designers, developers, and small agencies. Drop in any chaotic client input — an email, a Slack thread, a half-written PDF, or a transcribed voice note — and Briefance converts it into a structured, sendable project brief. Scope, timeline, budget range, deliverables, missing questions, and a one-click proposal. All in seconds.We're not a generic AI assistant. We're a single-purpose tool for the single most painful moment in freelance work: turning a vague client request into something you can actually quote on.The problem we solveEvery freelance project starts with a vague message like "Hey, I want a website. Something modern. Maybe like Apple but for our industry. When can you start?" What follows is a 1–2 hour ritual of reading it three times, extracting requirements, listing missing info, estimating scope and price, and writing a polite reply asking for clarification. Multiply that across every new lead and it's the silent tax on freelance income. Briefance compresses that ritual to 3 seconds.How it worksStep 1 — Drop the mess in. Paste an email body, drop a PDF, upload a .docx, or paste a Slack thread. The input doesn't need to be clean — that's the whole point.Step 2 — Briefance scopes it. Our prompt plus Anthropic Claude (via the Vercel AI SDK) extracts the project type, scope (what's in, what's out), concrete deliverables, a realistic phased timeline, a budget range, missing information the client forgot to answer, and risk flags for vague requirements or scope creep.Step 3 — Send it, track it, convert it. Export a branded PDF with your logo and colors, share via link and see when the client opens it, convert to a proposal with pricing and acceptance flow in one click, and save as a template for similar future projects.Who it's forFreelance designers and developers who want to cut new-lead scoping from 1–2 hours to under a minute. Small agencies (2–10 people) standardizing brief quality across junior and senior staff. Solo consultants producing investor-grade proposals without a designer. Studio owners automating the leap from first client meeting to signed proposal. And no-code / low-code builders who want to keep client expectations tight with a written, mutual scope.FeaturesBriefs — Smart input (paste any text, drop PDFs, DOCX, Markdown), streaming AI generation, fully editable structured output, multi-language support (English, Turkish, Spanish, German, French), versioning, and a searchable brief library.Templates — Starter templates for landing pages, mobile apps, brand identity, and e-commerce. Custom and team templates. Variable substitution with placeholders like {{client_name}}, {{project_type}}, {{deadline}}.Proposals — One-click conversion from any brief, branded PDF export, public share links, view tracking (know exactly when clients open it), and a signature-based acceptance flow.Collaboration — Teams with role-based access (owner, editor, viewer), in-line comments and mentions, and a full activity log.Integrations — Email forwarding to a Briefance inbox address, Slack thread import with speaker attribution, PDF/DOCX parsing (pdfjs-dist and mammoth), and webhook support.Account &amp; billing — Free tier with 5 briefs/month (no card required), usage dashboard, Lemon Squeezy billing (global VAT and invoicing handled), clean plan upgrades/downgrades, and a referral program.UX details — Dark mode (neobrutalist) and light mode (Notion-grade), keyboard-first shortcuts, responsive across mobile/tablet/desktop, offline draft saving, and WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility.Why Briefance vs. ChatGPT or Notion AIGeneric AI forces you to re-write the same prompt for every brief and produces inconsistent structure. Briefance is one click, every time, with always-identical output. PDF export is branded and client-ready, not a manual copy-paste. Client tracking, templates with variables, team collaboration, and a built-in acceptance flow simply don't exist in general-purpose AI. Generic AI is a great Swiss Army knife. Briefance is a chef's knife for one specific cut.Brand identitySharp, confident, slightly punk. Built by freelancers for freelancers. Clean typography, generous whitespace, and a single piece of acid yellow (#EAF13C) that stops you mid-scroll. Light theme is Notion-inspired and warm; dark theme is neobrutalist with 4px brutal shadows. Typography is Geist Sans + Geist Mono on an 8px grid.Tech stackNext.js 16 (App Router, React 19, React Compiler), TypeScript (strict), Node.js on Vercel Fluid Compute, Supabase (Postgres + Auth + RLS), Anthropic Claude via the Vercel AI SDK v6 with streaming and Zod-validated structured output, Lemon Squeezy for payments (merchant of record), Upstash Redis for rate limiting, Resend for transactional email, PostHog (EU-hosted) for analytics, Sentry for error monitoring, @react-pdf/renderer for PDFs, Tailwind v4 + shadcn/ui + Base UI + Framer Motion for