The freelance operations platform built for the way modern independents actually work.
Fromlu replaces the patchwork of spreadsheets, sticky notes, and five different SaaS tools that freelancers stitch together to run a business. In one workspace, you track every project, send every invoice, forecast every tax payment, and see — at a glance — whether you're actually making money this quarter.
Founded in 2021 by ex-Upwork product leads Maya Okafor and Daniel Reyes alongside fractional-CFO Priya Shankar. Series A of $22M closed in March 2023, led by Index Ventures. 184,000+ freelancers across 92 countries run their practice on Fromlu today. SOC 2 Type II certified since Q2 2023. Featured by Forbes, The Verge, and Wirecutter in 2024.
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The diagnosis
The patchwork is the job nobody signed up for.
Somewhere between your third client and your sixth tax installment, the side hustle stopped being fun. The work is fine. The operations are not. You are running a one-person company on a stack you built by accident.
A spreadsheet for hours. A second spreadsheet for invoices. A third for estimated taxes. Sticky notes for the client you forgot to follow up with. A browser tab for HoneyBook, another for Bonsai, a third for FreshBooks, and a fourth you opened last April for Wave when you meant to migrate and never did. Five tools, none of which speak to each other, none of which know what your quarter actually looks like.
The tax math gets done the night before the payment is due. The invoice follow-up happens when you remember. The profitability question — am I actually making money this month? — gets answered by gut feel, not by the books. Average freelancer loses 6.2 hours a week to this administrative drag. That is a full workday, every week, spent reconciling tools that were supposed to save you time.
Fromlu exists because the patchwork is not a workflow. It is a tax on your attention. The next four sections show what one workspace replaces it with.
The five modules
One workspace. Five modules. No more patchwork.
Each module owns one job and talks to the other four. No double entry. No copy-paste between tabs. No "I'll update it on Friday."
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Projects
Every active engagement in one queue, with scope, deadline, and billed-to-date attached to the project record itself — not buried in a doc three folders deep.
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Invoicing
Send, track, and reconcile every invoice without leaving the workspace. Average invoice paid in 11.4 days versus a 28.6-day industry baseline.
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Cash Flow Forecast
Patented engine predicts tax obligations with 94% accuracy, drawing on 3.4M historical invoices so you stop guessing what to set aside.
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Time & Mileage
Capture billable time and deductible mileage from the same timer that posts to the invoice — no end-of-week reconstruction from memory.
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Client Portal
A read-only view your client signs into to see project status, invoices, and files — replaces the email thread that always loses the attachment.
The headline capability
The Cash Flow Forecast Engine is the feature nobody else will ship.
Freelancers don't go broke on revenue. They go broke on timing — the quarter you owe $14,000 in taxes is rarely the quarter you billed it. Fromlu's patented engine reads your invoices, your expense cadence, and your historical payment patterns to forecast what you owe and when, before the payment is due.
- 94%Forecast accuracy on quarterly tax obligations, measured against actual filings across 3.4M historical invoices.
- 3.4MInvoices in the training corpus, spanning 92 countries and every major billing currency.
- NativeMulti-currency invoicing with Wise, Stripe, and Mercury integrations — the first freelance platform to ship all three.
— The position —
"You don't need another tool. You need one workspace that already knows your quarter — and stops charging you six hours a week to keep it in its head."
From the Fromlu operating charter, §1.
By the numbers
Series A of $22M closed March 2023, led by Index Ventures with Operator Collective participating. SOC 2 Type II certified since Q2 2023. Team of 47, fully distributed across 14 cities.