Hey everyone

After months of heads-down work, Briefance is officially live on Product Hunt today.

The problem we kept hitting as freelancers: every project starts with a messy thread a vague client email, a Slack dump, a half-finished PDF. You spend an hour just figuring out what they actually want before you can quote anything.

Briefance takes that mess and turns it into a structured brief: scope, budget, timeline, deliverables, and a sendable proposal. Drop in the email or PDF, get a clean brief back. Export it, share it, and track when the client opens it.

"need a website, nothing fancy, $500, by Friday."

That was an actual client brief I received. I spent 2 hours just figuring out what they actually needed before I could start working.

After years of freelancing, I realized I was spending more time decoding chaotic client messages than doing the actual work. So I built Briefance.

The problem: Clients send a wall of text vague scope, no timeline, "flexible budget." You waste hours playing detective before any real work begins.