// About
Built by a freelancer
who got tired of writing proposals.
Landbid started as a personal script and grew into the tool you see today.
// The story
Why this exists.
Most freelance proposals follow the same script: "I have X years of experience, I'm a perfect fit, please consider me." They get skimmed and skipped.
The ones that win read like someone actually thought about the brief. They open with a specific detail from the post. They reference real work that proves capability without listing skills. They keep it short.
Landbid started as a private script that encoded those rules into a Claude prompt — so the first draft of every proposal already followed them. Then came tone samples, portfolio relevance scoring, chat refinement, templates, analytics. Each addition came from a real bidding session.
Today Landbid is a focused tool for freelancers who'd rather spend an hour on the brief than another hour on the proposal.
// What we believe
Four principles that shape the product.
Brevity wins.
A 200-word proposal that engages the brief beats a 1,000-word résumé recap. Landbid is tuned to write short and specific by default.
Voice over template.
Tone examples and portfolio teach Landbid how you actually write. The output should sound like you — not like Landbid.
Calm tooling.
No popups, no dashboards with forty-seven widgets, no hype. Landbid does one thing well and gets out of the way.
Open foundations.
The source is on GitHub. Self-host if you want, contribute if you spot something, or just read the prompt that powers your bids.
// Behind Landbid
Who's building this.
Ismael
Founder & engineer
I'm an independent engineer who's been writing proposals (and software) for the better part of a decade. Landbid is the tool I wished existed every time I sat down to bid on a new project.
If you want to talk shop, share what's working, or tell me something Landbid is getting wrong — send a note. I read every one.
Write your next proposal with Landbid.
Five minutes of setup. Your first bid in the next sixty seconds.